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. 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. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Publisher's summary In addition, the new edition includes recent developments in black cultural studies, especially black popular culture, as well as recent events and trends such as the Anita Hill hearings and the backlash against affirmative action. Black feminism's connections to Black diasporic feminisms, and more attention to the importance of social class and nationalism all appear in the new edition. A new discussion of heterosexism as a system of power, an expanded treatment of images of Black womanhood, U.S. In the tenth anniversary edition of this award-winning work, Patricia Hill Collins expands the basic arguments of the first edition by adding several important new themes. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde, but she shows the importance of self-defined knowledge for group empowerment.
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. Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment References About the Author.Sexual Politics and Black Women's Relationships Chapter 11.The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood Chapter 9.
The Politics of Black Feminist Thought 2.
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