The mid-1970s witnessed a resurgence of racism for example in North America and Britain, according to Lynne Segal. Bush's re-election as President depended in part on the criminalisation of the image of black men. Youth crime and black youth were made synonymous in the UK, in the context of increasing poverty, police brutality and state racism. Stereotypes of black men as studs and rapists persist in popular culture. Fighting racism is therefore also about fighting dominant images of men and masculinity, such as racist fantasies of black sexuality which are oppressive to women and men alike.
Racism informs our images and treatment of women.
These and other minority women are subject to sexualised racial harassment and public intrusions. Race, power, theory THE recognition of differences and divisions among men complicates and unsettles our analyses of men's power. Gendered power is intersected by race power and class power. Men of colour and from NESB backgrounds are clearly not the beneficiaries of patriarchal capitalism in the same way as other men. On the other hand, in focusing only on diversity, we run the risk of losing sight of men's power as a gender.