Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

By Neide Mayumi Osada, Maria Cristina Oliveira da Costa. 2008

Subfields: Philosophy, Social Sciences & Humanities

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My Sister's Keeper: A Qualitative Examination of Mentoring Experiences Among African American Women in Graduate and Professional Schools (2009, background): “Although several Black female intellectuals have asserted their voices to provide a pathway for Black women, BFT, introduced by Patricia Hill-Collins (1989, 1998, 2000) defines a form of critical social theory committed to justice for the collective population of Black women and other oppressed…”
Yarning About Yarning as a Legitimate Method in Indigenous Research (2010, methodology): “Taking an Indigenous standpoint from a black woman " s perspective (Collins 2000; Foley 2002; Moreton-Robinson and Walter 2009; Rigney 1997), yarning as an Indigenous research method was deliberately employed in semi-structured in-depth interviews to gather information from the participants of…”
Mental Health Stigma in the Muslim Community (2013, unknown): “Effects of interlocking identity axes must be considered simultaneously (Cole, 2009; Collins, 2000, 2007; Hancock, 2007).”
The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics (2022, background): “Traditions like Black Feminism [16, 36], Care Ethics [59], and the broad traditions of ethics that have emerged from Asian [5, 47] and African [51, 54, 73] scholars challenge the ontologies presumed in the “canonical” approach to ethics common to both the field of philosophy and the growing field of”
Understanding psychology's resistance to intersectionality theory using a framework of epistemic exclusion and invisibility (2020, unknown): “Like intersectionality, the roots of epistemic exclusion can also be found in Black feminist thought (e.g., Collins, 2000; Crenshaw, 1989; Dotson, 2012, 2014).”
Unpacking the Male Superiority Myth and Masculinization of Mathematics at the Intersections: A Review of Research on Gender in Mathematics Education (2017, background): “Mathematics has been documented as a power-laden and masculinized academic domain (Esmonde, 2011; Esmonde & Langer-Osuna, 2013; Mendick, 2006). Gender-based participation studies, in particular, highlighted how individuals experience the “double-edgedness of power” (Mendick, 2006, p. 20)—namely, Fou”
Shame Resilience Theory: A Grounded Theory Study on Women and Shame (2006, background): “…awareness (also referred to as critical consciousness and/or critical perspective) is both the process and the cognitive state of linking personal experiences with social/cultural issues (Bricker-Jenkins, 1991; Collins, 2000; Freire, 1970; Gutierrez, 1995; hooks, 1990; Stout & McPhail, 1998).”
African American Males in Urban Schools: No Excuses—Teach and Empower (2007, background): “Irvine (2003) explained that teaching is about establishing and maintaining caring relationships, and it is about what Collins (1991) called other mothering, and I add other fathering.”
Culturally responsive computing: a theory revisited (2015, background): “A complicated dance ensues, one that Patricia Hill Collins (2000) described as both empowering and disempowering for Black women and the White families for whom they care.”
An Intersectional Analysis of Latin@ College Women's Counter-stories in Mathematics (2016, background): “W. E. B. Du Bois similarly pursued an intersectional analysis of the Black political economy with race, class, and nation as intersecting “social hierarchies that shaped African American access to status, property, and power” (Collins, 2000b, p. 42).”
Sociotechnical Harms: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (2022, background): “This type of representational harm speaks to what sociologist Patricia Hill Collins [48] calls controlling images, which refers to the discourses, images, or language used to marginalize or oppress a social group.”
Image Cropping on Twitter: Fairness Metrics, their Limitations, and the Importance of Representation, Design, and Agency (2021, background): “Drawing on the work of [20, 23], we define representational harm as the harm associated with a depiction that reinforces the subordination of some groups along the lines of identity, such as race,”
Handbook of Autoethnography (2021, background): “The matrix of domination is a black feminist concept that refers to the overall organization of hierarchical, intersecting power present in any society (Hill Collins, 2000).”