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Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
- P. Collins
- Sociology
- 1 December 1986
Black women have long occupied marginal positions in academic settings. I argue that many Black female intellectuals have made creative use of their marginality—their “outsider within” status–to…
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
- P. Collins
- Art, Sociology
- 9 December 1999
Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgements Part 1: The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought 1. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought 2. Distinguishing…
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
- P. Collins
- HistorySigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- 1 July 1989
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida Wells Barnett, and Fannie Lou Hamer are but a few names from a growing list of distinguished African-American women activists. Although their sustained…
Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice
- P. Collins
- Sociology
- 1 September 2000
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…
Black Feminist Thought
- P. Collins
- SociologyTheories of Race and Racism
- 14 August 2020
Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas
- P. Collins
- Sociology
- 17 August 2015
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as…
Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory.
- P. Collins, P. Essed
- Sociology
- 1 November 1992
It's All In the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation
- P. Collins
- SociologyHypatia
- 1 August 1998
Intersectionality has attracted substantial scholarly attention in the 1990s. Rather than examining gender, race, class, and nation as distinctive social hierarchies, intersectionality examines how…
Gender, Black Feminism, and Black Political Economy
- P. Collins
- Sociology, Economics
- 1 March 2000
This article uses two dimensions of Black feminist standpoint epistemology to investigate Black political economy. It suggests that centering on Black women's experiences and analyzing those…
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