Social Theory Quotes by Patricia Hill Collins

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• Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
• I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black…
• Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
• Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that…
• The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which…
• Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
• A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered…
• That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.
• To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In…
• Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
• Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

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