Patricia Hill Collins

A revision of a hugely successful book; this is the 'bible' of contemporary black feminist thought and is widely cited and taught as a seminal text. Completely up-to-date with recent events, trends in popular culture, current events, and politics.

Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Black Feminist Thought

In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.

African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

Black Sexual Politics

Barbara Smith

Bell Hooks

Sojourner Truth

Audre Lorde

Angela Y. Davis

The Combahee River Collective

Kimberle Crenshaw

Grundlagentexte

Schwarzer Feminismus

Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a "new" racism and call for new political responses to it. Using the experiences of African American women and men as a touchstone for analysis, Patricia Hill Collins examines new forms of racism as well as political responses to it.In this incisive and stimulating book, renowned social theorist Patricia Hill Collins investigates how nationalism has operated and re-emerged in the wake of contemporary globalization and offers an interpretation of how black nationalism works today in the wake of changing black youth identity. Hers is the first study to analyze the interplay of racism, nationalism, and feminism in the context of twenty-first century black America.From Black Power to Hip Hop covers a wide range of topics including the significance of race and ethnicity to the American national identity; how ideas about motherhood affect population policies; African American use of black nationalism ideologies as anti-racist practice; and the relationship between black nationalism, feminism and women in the hip-hop generation.

Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism

From Black Power to Hip Hop

Sirma Bilge

Intersectionality

Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change.

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Margaret L. Andersen

RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and is further strengthened by conceptual introductions by the authors. Students will find the readings engaging and accessible, but may gain the most from the introduction sections that highlight key points and relate the essential concepts. Included in the collection of readings are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on important social issues such as prison, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, and racism, among other topics.

An Anthology

Race, Class, and Gender

In this fiercely intelligent yet accessible book, one of the nation's leading sociologists and experts on race calls for "another kind of public education"--one that opens up more possibilities for democracy, and more powerful modes of participation for young people of color.

Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities

Another Kind of Public Education

Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins has been called in Contemporary Sociology “one of the defining voices of contemporary feminist and race scholarship.” Well known for her contributions to sociology, social theory, and cultural studies, her numerous publications indicate why she has been a tireless voice for social justice causes such as the dynamics of race, social class, gender, and sexual equality, and also black feminist politics. In On Intellectual Activism, Collins asks scholars and public intellectuals to assess the meaning of their work. She challenges readers to rethink the potential of speaking truth to power, and examines both the role of the intellectual in public life and how well questions of contemporary social issues are communicated to the public at large. The contents of this volume—public lectures, previously published pieces, interviews, and new essays—illustrate the important conceptual anchors of Collins’ work and reflect on the major themes of her illustrious career. These timely and thought-provoking essays include topics ranging from black feminist thought, critical education, public sociology, and resisting racism to new visions for activist intellectuals.

On Intellectual Activism

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.

Black Women and the Search for Justice

Fighting Words

Nancy Fraser

Judith Butler

Silvia Federici

Rahel Jaeggi

Tithi Bhattacharya

Sueli Carneiro

Talíria Petrone

Flávia Biroli

Aleksandra Kollontai

Amanda Palha

Ana Flauzina

Angela Davis

Por que demos a este ciclo de debates o título "Por um feminismo para os 99%"? Inspirados no livro de Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi bhattacharya e Nancy Fraser, publicado pela Boitempo em 2019, escolhemos chamar atenção para as mulheres da classe trabalhadora: "Racializadas, migrantes ou brancas; cis, trans ou não alinhadas à conformidade de gênero; que exercem o trabalho doméstico ou são trabalhadoras sexuais; remuneradas por hora, semana, mês ou nunca remuneradas; desempregadas ou subempregadas; jovens ou idosas"1. Nosso objetivo é, enfim, discutir as premissas de um feminismo incondicional- mente internacionalista e anticapitalista, que cerre fileiras com os movimentos antirracistas, ambientalistas e pelos direitos de trabalhadores e de imigrantes. Os movimentos por emancipação liderados por mulheres tiveram origem muito antes do que hoje se convencionou chamar de "feminismo". Há séculos, as mulheres lutam contra o patriarcalismo, sistema de opressão que se manifesta no tecido social de diferentes culturas. A diversidade do feminismo atual se explica pela existência de formas bastante variadas de pensar a luta das mulheres: indígenas e empresariais; liberais e socialistas; individualistas e coletivas. Isso se deve à maior ou menor articulação da análise do patriarcado a outros aspectos da formação das sociedades capitalistas modernas. A superação da opressão das mulheres, especialmente na família e no trabalho, continua sendo ponto de atenção para a tão sonhada sociedade igualitária. As feministas liberais defendem a individualidade e o empreendedorismo e preconizam o "empoderamento" como saída para a desigualdade de gênero; as feministas radicais apostam na coletividade, porém enxergam no patriarcado a raiz de todas as opressões; e as feministas marxistas reivindicam a centralidade do trabalho e da classe na identificação da opressão e da exploração sofridas pelas mulheres no sistema capitalista. Tentaremos, nesta pequena coletânea de textos, dar indícios de cada uma dessas vertentes, de modo a estimular leitores e leitoras a tomar parte nessa necessária renovação do pensamento radical feita pelo "marxismo feminista". Para tanto, reunimos aqui excertos de livros e de textos da revista Margem Esquerda, publicados pela Boitempo, com os quais esperamos refletir coletivamente sobre o passado, o presente e, sobretudo, a construção de um futuro mais justo e digno. Boa leitura!

Introdução ao pensamento feminista negro / Por um feminismo para os 99%

An Anthology (with InfoTrac) (The Wadsworth Sociology Reader Series)

La Pensée Féministe Noire

The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability and ethnicity shape one another? In this new book Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge provide a much-needed, introduction to the field of intersectional knowledge and praxis. They analyze the emergence, growth and contours of the concept and show how intersectional frameworks speak to topics as diverse as human rights, neoliberalism, identity politics, immigration, hip hop, global social protest, diversity, digital media, Black feminism in Brazil, violence and World Cup soccer. Accessibly written and drawing on a plethora of lively examples to illustrate its arguments, the book highlights intersectionality's potential for understanding inequality and bringing about social justice oriented change. Intersectionality will be an invaluable resource for anyone grappling with the main ideas, debates and new directions in this field.

Black Feminist Thought : Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Patricia Hill Collins

A provocative analysis of the new contours of black nationalism and feminism in America.

Race, Class and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection

Toward a New Vision

In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical traditions—from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought—to sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.

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