“Power Lines breaks new methodological and theoretical ground, offers new political vision, and encourages all of us to be longing for a feminism we can stand for.” — Karma R. Chávez, Quarterly Journal of Speech
“[Carrillo Rowe] offers a set of critical, practical, and theoretical tools for building and maintaining transracial feminist alliances.” — Frauensolidarität,
“Aimee Carrillo Rowe’s book Power Lines is a must read. It offers provocative and forward-moving insights into the failures and possibilities of multiracial alliances. . . . Power Lines is a deeply provocative book that shifts the terms used to assess the past as well as future of women’s studies.” — Ann Russo, NWSA Journal,
“Carrillo Rowe smartly illustrates how identity inflects not only one’s relationships to power, privilege, and peers, but the very way one conceptualizes these relationships. Carrillo Rowe weaves her observations about herself and her interviewees into a provocative and theoretically informed volume. . . . Power Lines is essential reading for anyone hoping to create an academic feminism that is more inclusive of all women.” — On Campus with Women,
“This examination of race, class, academic feminist theory, and transracial partnerships will inform the future of disciplines ranging from rhetoric to social work. Using philosophy and feminist theory, this complex analysis will inspire the apathetic and cynical to reexamine the value of academic feminism.” — Brittany Shoot, Feminist Review Blog
“For twenty years, those of us who came of age through multiracial feminism and teach feminist studies have been talking about alliance building as key to liberation struggles. Yet time and again, I have heard students understandably ask what alliances look like, how they can be part of them, and how they will know whether the alliances are working. With theory that is both nuanced and sophisticated, relevant and provocative, Aimee Carrillo Rowe gives us answers to these questions.” — Becky Thompson, author of A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism