A professor of sociology explores how black feminist thought confronts the injustices of poverty and white supremacy, and argues that those operating outside the mainstream emphasize sociological themes based on assumptions different than those commonly accepted. Original. UP.
A professor of sociology explores how black feminist thought confronts the injustices of poverty and white supremacy, and argues that those operating ...
Examines the forms of racism in American life and the political responses to them. Using the experiences of African American men and women, this book covers a range of issues that connect questions of race to American identity. It investigates how nationalism has operated and reemerged in the wake of globalization.
Examines the forms of racism in American life and the political responses to them. Using the experiences of African American men and women, this book ...
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral...
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not wid...
