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

Collins, Patricia Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415964725 ISBN 13: 9780415964722

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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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 of Books

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415964725
• ISBN 13: 9780415964722
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384