“The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.” SocialChallengesRolesPracticePolicyApproachModelsEducationalEmploymentSubstitutesRole ModelsUnjustSocial ChangeHousing Author:Patricia Hill Collins
“The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds” WorldDifferentProcessBlackViewsPracticeIdentityOffersFeministAfrican AmericanDimensionsCollectivesSignificanceOur WorldBlack WomenStandpointDemonstratingAmerican WomanTheoristsAfrican American WomenDifferent ViewsBlack Feminist Author:Patricia Hill Collins
“To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.” WayIdeasStatesNationsSocialDifficultUnitedRaceClassPracticeUnited StatesSupportGroupsGenderSexualityIdeologyAlternativesJustifyDominantResisting Book:Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Source: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
