On intellectual activism
By: Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia. PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781439909607; 9781439909614; 9781439909621
Subjects: Womanism; Racism; African American intellectuals
Description: Since stepping down as the 100th President of the American Sociological Association, Patricia Hill Collins has been lecturing extensively at universities and at private and public organizations about the role of the intellectual in public culture and how well intellectuals communicate questions about contemporary social issues to the larger public. This book is a collection of those lectures, along with new and (a few) previously-published essays. -- Product details.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on usage; title: Black feminism; title: Why Black feminist thought?; title: Fighting words; title: : or yet another version of the emperor's new clothes; title: Black sexual politics 101; title: Resisting racism, writing Black sexual politics; title: Still brave? : Black feminism as a social justice project; title: Sociology of knowledge; title: Learning from the outsider within revisited; title: Going public : doing the sociology that had no name; title: Changing times : sociological complexities; title: The racial threat; title: Rethinking knowledge, community and empowerment : an interview; title: Critical education; title: Critical pedagogy and engaged scholarship : lessons from St. Joseph's community school; title: Teaching for a change : critical pedagogy and classroom communities; title: Another kind of public education; title: Making space for public conversations : an interview; title: Racial politics; title: Coloring outside the color line; title: Are we living in a post-racial world?; title: On the brink : violence and U.S. society; title: Who's right? : what's left? : family values and U.S. politics; title: Intellectual activism revisited; title: Toward a new vision : race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connection; title: Where do we go from here?; title: Index.