Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Editorials, Opinions, and Petitions
6. Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama 11
7. Feminists for Clinton 13
8. Stop the False Race–Gender Divide 17
9. Morning in America 21
10. Duel of Historical Guilts 25
11. It’s Not as Simple as White Trumping Black or Man Trumping Woman 29
12. Sex Versus Race, Again 33
13. Obama and the Sisters 41
14. Personal Refl ections: Having Our Say
15. Lest We Forget 47
16. Culture Trumps Politics and Gender Trumps Race 53
17. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say? 59
18. Voting for the Girl 63
19. The Sisterhood Split 71
20. Hillary Versus the Patriarchy 75
21. Hillary Is White 79
22. Your Whiteness Is Showing 85
23. Black and for Hillary 89
24. Why I Support Obama 93
25. Daughters of the South, Rise Up 97
26. Generation Y Refuses Race–Gender Dichotomy 103
27. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama 107
28. The Obama Feminists 109
29. Yo Momma 111
30. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism 115
31. Essays: Making Our Case
32. Crises of Representation 121
33. Goodbye to All That #2 155
34. Race to the Bottom 163
35. Intersectionality 171
36. Does Race Trump Gender? 183
37. The Generation Gap 201
38. Michelle Obama on My Mind 215
39. Post-Election: What We Learned
40. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama 233
41. Learning from a Year of Hope and Hard Choices 251
42. Reading Obama 285
43. Appendix 305
44. List of Contributors 327
45. Index 335