Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)

Author: Hill Collins Patricia

Brand: Routledge

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 366

Details: Product 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.

Review

“With the publication of Black Feminist Thought, black feminism has moved to a new level. Her work sets a standard for the discussion of black women’s lives, experiences, and thought that demands rigorous attention to the complexity of these experiences and an exploration of a multiplicity of responses.” — Women’s Review ofBooks
“A superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic review of black feminst thought.” — Feminist BookstoreNews
“The book argues convincingly that black feminists be given, in the words immortalized by Aretha Franklin, a little more R-E-S-P-E-C-T…Those with an appetite for scholarese will find Hill’s book delicious.” — BlackEnterprise
“The author discusses how knowledge can foster African-American women’s empowerment. In line with her own deepened understanding of the issues since the first edition, she emphasizes Black feminist thought’s purpose in fostering both empowerment and conditions of social justice, provides a more complex analysis of oppression, and places greater stress on the connections between knowledge and power relations. New themes include the nation as a form of oppression, as well as a transnational, global dimension. Topics are organized under the headings of the social construction of Black feminist thought, core themes, and Black Feminism, knowledge, and power.” — Book News, Inc.

“With the publication of Black Feminist Thought, black feminism has moved to a new level. Her work sets a standard for the discussion of black women’s lives, experiences, and thought that demands rigorous attention to the complexity of these experiences and an exploration of a multiplicity of responses.” — Women’s Review ofBooks

About the Author

Patricia Hill Collins (1948-) is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Black Feminist Thought is the best known of the many published works that have made her one of the leading American thinkers of our day.

Release Date: 13-09-2008

Package Dimensions: 28x216x476