Kendall's grandmother
Kendall's grandmother is a metaphor for a more traditional style of feminism. As Kendall writes, her grandmother "lived her feminism," and had a disdain for the feminist rhetoric of the time.
Thin veneer
Kendall looks at the history of feminism and how it coincided with the civil rights movement. She argues that feminism for white women depended on the cheap labor of women of color in the home, and concludes that "freedom was not to be found in doing the same labor with a thin veneer of access to opportunities that would most likely never come."
The road to freedom
Again speaking about the differences between feminism for white and black women, Kendall uses a metaphor to say that "a better deal for white women could not be, would not be, the road to freedom for Black women." Here, she represents the path to equality as a metaphoric road.
Magic shield
Kendall says that there is "no magic shield in being middle-class that can completely insulate you from the consequences of being in a body that's already been criminalized for existing." Here, she is using a metaphor to emphasize that there was no protection for black people during the civil rights issues of the 20th century.
A target
Kendall uses the metaphor "makes you a target," in order to argue that black people were targeted in various ways during the 20th Century in America.
