When Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins was published
in 1990, reviewers called it "remarkable", "rich and valuable", and
proclaimed, "with the publication of this book, Black feminism has
moved to a new level". Now, in Fighting Words, Collins expands and
extends the discussion of the "outsider within" presented in her
earlier work, investigating how effectively Black feminist thought
confronts the injustices African American women currently face.
Collins takes on a broad range of issues -- poverty, mothering,
white supremacy and Afrocentrism, the resegregation of American
society by race and class, the ideas of Sojourner Truth and how
they can serve as a springboard for more liberating social theory.
Contrasting social theories that support unjust power relations of
race, class, gender, and nation with those that challenge
inequalities, Collins investigates why some ideas are granted the
status of "theory" while others remain "thought". "It is not that
elites produce theory while everyone else produces mere thought",
she writes. "Rather, elites possess the power to legitimate the
knowledge that they define as theory as being universal, normative,
and ideal".
Collins argues that because African American women and other
historically oppressed groups seek economic and social justice,
their social theories may emphasize themes and work from
assumptions that are different from those of mainstream American
society, generating new angles of vision on injustice. Collins also
puts such oppositional social theory to the test: while the words
of these theories may challenge injustice, do the ideas make a
difference in the lives of the people they claim to represent?
Throughout,Collins provides an essential understanding of how
"outsiders" resist mainstream perspectives, and what the mainstream
can learn from such "outsiders". Historically situated yet
transcending the specific, Fighting Words provides a new
interpretive framework for both thinking through and overcoming
social injustice.
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