Black Feminist Thought
Subtitle: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415964722
Subjects: Social Science / African-American Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology
Description: "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, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that provided the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought and its canon."--Publisher's description.