This Bridge centered the experiences of women of color, offering a serious challenge to white feminists who made claims to solidarity based on sisterhood.

But white feminists still tend to acknowledge 'race' as a matter of cultural difference.

Unlike white feminists, black women fought a twofold battle against racism and sexism.

As compared to white feminists, black feminists do no face the threat of being undermined by their own people.

The criticism did not go only one way: many white feminists were angered by Lorde's brand of feminism.

Her argument aligned white feminists with white male slave-masters, describing both as "agents of oppression".

Instead, women of color wrote candidly about their own racism and that of white feminists.

While white feminists came to the defense of Professor Hill, some black feminists held back.

One tells Ms. Bikel that middle-class white feminists "cannot deal with race."

Another says, "Those white feminists don't care about us."