Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for JusticeA professor of sociology explores how black feminist thought confronts the injustices of poverty and white supremacy, and argues that those operating outside the mainstream emphasize sociological themes based on assumptions different than those commonly accepted. Original. UP. |
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Fighting words: Black women and the search for justice
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Contents
Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited | 3 |
Part II | 71 |
On Fighting Words with Fighting Words | 79 |
Black Women | 95 |
Whats Going On? Black Feminist Thought | 124 |
Moving beyond Critique | 187 |
Interactional ity Situated | 195 |
Standpoints and Black Feminist Thought | 201 |
Toward | 229 |
Notes | 253 |
Glossary | 275 |
| 283 | |
| 305 | |
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Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice Patricia Hill Collins No preview available - 1998 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice Volume 7 of Contradictions of modernity |
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | U of Minnesota Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0816623775, 9780816623778 |
| Length | 312 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory Social Science / Women's Studies |
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