The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them” — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“The enemy, however, is not the historically imagined enemy of brown or black youth, more often depicted as America's problem than as its promise.… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
