Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign

WHO SHOULD BE FIRST?
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Editorials, Opinions, and Petitions
1. Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama
2. Feminists for Clinton
3. Stop the False Race–Gender Divide: A Call to Action
4. Morning in America: A Letter from Feminists on the Election1
5. Duel of Historical Guilts1
6. It’s Not as Simple as White Trumping Black or Man Trumping Woman1
7. Sex Versus Race, Again1
8. Obama and the Sisters1
II. Personal Refl ections: Having Our Say
9. Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave
10. Culture Trumps Politics and Gender Trumps Race
11. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say?
12. Voting for the Girl: Some Thoughts on Sisterhood and Citizenship
13. The Sisterhood Split1
14.Hillary Versus the Patriarchy1
15. Hillary Is White1
16. Your Whiteness Is Showing
17. Black and for Hillary
18. Why I Support Obama
19. Daughters of the South, Rise UpOn Generation, Gender, and Race in the 2008 Democratic Election
20. Generation Y Refuses Race–Gender Dichotomy
21. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama
22. The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are Supporting Obama
23. Yo Momma
24. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism
III. Essays: Making Our Case
25. Crises of Representation: Hate Messages in Campaign 2008 Commercial Paraphernalia1
26. Goodbye to All That #2
27. Race to the Bottom1
28. Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaign1
29. Does Race Trump Gender?Black Women Negotiating their Spaces of Intersection in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
30. The Generation Gap: Graduate Students and Democratic Primaries Spring 2008
31. Michelle Obama on My Mind
IV. Post-Election: What We Learned
32. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama
33. Learning from a Year of Hope and Hard Choices
34.Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears
Appendix
List of Contributors
Index
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