Black Feminist Thought

By P. Collins. 1999

Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgements Part 1: The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought 1. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought 2. Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist Thought Part 2: Core Themes in Black Feminist Thought 3. Work, Family and Black Women's Oppression 4. Mammies, Matriarchs and other Controlling Images 5. The Power of Self-Definition 6. The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood 7. Black Women's Love Relationships 8. Black Women and Motherhood 9. Rethinking Black Women's Activism Part 3: Black Feminism, Knowledge and Power 10. US Black Feminism in Transnational Context 11. Black Feminist Epistemology 12. Toward a Politics of Empowerment

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Social and emotional learning is hegemonic miseducation: students deserve humanization instead (2021, background): “type of learning to happen, Patricia Hill Collins (2002) asserts, ‘Empowerment involves rejecting the dimensions of knowledge .”
First-Generation College Students as Academic Learners: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “First, intersectionality, grounded in critical race theory and Black feminist theory, recognizes the power structures inherent in shaping the experiences of students with intersecting oppressed identities (Collins, 2000; Crenshaw, 1989). This type of analysis, which interconnects the macro-level iss”
The Misunderstood Schema of the Strong Black Woman: Exploring Its Mental Health Consequences and Coping Responses Among African American Women (2020, background): “Despite these benefits, the SBW facade may mask African American women’s internal struggles (e.g., Collins, 2000) such as hopelessness and depression (Schiller, Lucas, Ward, & Peregoy, 2012).”
Equity, inclusion, and antiblackness in mathematics education (2019, background): “…set of racial stereotypes, prejudices, . . .[and] ideologies’ (Feagin xi) as well as collections of fictional narratives, controlling images (Collins 2000), and processes of discursive dehumanization (Alves 2014) that create naturalized relationships between Blackness, inferiority,…”
Toward a Psychological Framework of Radical Healing in Communities of Color (2020, background): “Intersectionality is grounded in the herstory of Black feminism (Cole, 2009; Collins, 2000; Lewis, Williams, Moody, Peppers, & Gadson, 2018).”
Research literature on women of color in undergraduate engineering education: A systematic thematic synthesis (2020, background): “The theoretical frames of CRT (Bell, 1995; Solórzano, 1997; Solórzano et al., 2000) and intersectionality (Collins, 2000; Collins & Bilge, 2016; Crenshaw, 1991, 1993) bring into high relief how systemic gendered and raced oppressions continue to be experienced in traditionally White and male…”
Learning critical feminist research: A brief introduction to feminist epistemologies and methodologies (2019, background): “While such trailblazing work has been central to some feminist projects, it was also critiqued for only ‘speaking to’ the experiences of Western, white, middle-class women (Collins, 1990; hooks, 1990).”
What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants (2019, background): “Another shift entails thinking of participants’ social group memberships as dynamically constructed across situational, historical, and geographical contexts (e.g., Cho, Crenshaw, & McCall, 2013; Diamond & Butterworth, 2008; Yuval-Davis, 2006).”
Algorithmic realism: expanding the boundaries of algorithmic thought (2020, background): “reinforcing their status as the only ones entitled to legitimate claims of neutrality [25, 30, 62, 63].”
Relational Work in the Economy (2020, background): “Feminist scholarship early on paid attention to the gendering of relational and emotional efforts (Hochschild 1983, Laslett & Brenner 1989, Hill Collins 1990).”
The false promise of risk assessments: epistemic reform and the limits of fairness (2020, background): “In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins writes that “activating epistemologies that criticize prevailing knowledge and that enable us to de ne our own realities on our own terms” is essential to empowering black women [26].”
Black Girls and School Discipline: The Complexities of Being Overrepresented and Understudied (2019, background): “Finally, the politics of multiple oppressions Black females experience as a result of their race, class, and gender status are connected to a history of slavery and controlling images, such as the matriarch (Collins, 2000).”