"The back woman lives in a society that discriminates against her on tow counts . . . the twin jeopardy of race and sex - Shirley Chisholm" (330). What the late Chisholm highlighted is what was to be known in the Women's Studies field as intersectionality. Minority women don't face discrimination because they are either a woman or a minority but due to the fact that the two intersect as one reason to be discriminated against. On the same page it quotes Pat Sumi stating that the Asian people must revolutionize to combat oppression in the United States. The author then asks, "who, then, is the revolutionary woman?" (330).
Olivia Wang returns from Mississippi with an African American boyfriend. Her path has changed from what, apparently, her father envisioned his Asian daughter. She realizes this and leaves with her father's Benz never to return, to start a revolution to change it all for women and minorities in America. To become more than a oppressed individual based on personal characteristics (sex, race) the characters recognizing that they "have to move away from race and organize based on class," yet, "don't think it's that easy" (321).
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