Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
by Patricia Hill Collins
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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, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is show more a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought. show lessTags
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What I loved the most about this book is that it is an academic text, but PCH doesn't waste time with jargon. If she uses it, she defines it almost immediately. There is also a glossary in the back of the book. A book that I will use a lot. So happy I was pushed to revisit this text.
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Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of from Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism (Temple), Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the show more New Racism, She is a Pasts President of the American Sociological Association. show less
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- Canonical title
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
- Original publication date
- 1990
- People/Characters
- Patricia Hill Collins; Angela Davis; bell hooks; Alice Walker; Audre Lorde
Classifications
- Genres
- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 305.42 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Groups of people Women Social role and status of women
- LCC
- HQ1426 .C633 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Languages
- English, French, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 28
- ASINs
- 16