1. Major efforts are under way to assess the impact of the contemporary women's movement in the United States and the backlash against that movement. A four-part documentary series for public television, The Second Wave, is funded in part by the Ford Foundation and is a coproduction of Sagebrush Productions (headed by Bobbie Birleffi) and Women Make Movies, the largest distributor of women's media in North America. Covering the years between 1960 and 1990, the four one-hour programs include The Personal Is Political 1960–1990; Body Battlegrounds 1970–1973; Sisterhood Is Powerful 1973–1977; and Beyond Backlash 1977–Present. To ensure greater accuracy and inclusiveness, the producers have broadened the focus of a largely white, middle-class movement to include black women, other women of color, and lower-class women.

2. The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas drama and commentary, both during the hearings and following, have reinforced among feminists of color the necessity for a serious exploration of a number of gender-specific issues (including, but not exclusively, sexual harassment) among ethnic women and men.

3. See Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993); Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History (New York: Verso, 1992); Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992); Mab Segrest, Memoir of a Race Traitor (Boston, Mass.: South End Press, 1994).

4. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, eds., Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), ix.

5. See Ruth Dickstein and Maria Segura Hoopes, Minority American Women: A Research Guide, Occasional Publication no. 10, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1991, 1, for a discussion of the problems of vocabulary in describing nonwhite women.

6. This effort resulted in the publication of Liza Fiol-Matta and Mariam K. Chamberlain, eds., Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum: Transforming the College Classroom (New York: The Feminist Press, 1994).

7. Toni Cade, The Black Woman (New York: New American Library).

8. Mary Hartman and Lois W. Banner, eds., Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women (New York: Harper and Row, 1974).