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School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where
people are injured and die dominate the news. But how are these
incidents of violence and extreme harm connected? In this new book,
world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how
violence differentially affects people according to their class,
sexuality, nationality and ethnicity. These invisible workings of
overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms ‘lethal
intersections’, where multiple forms of oppression converge to
catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on
particular groups. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases from
investigative journalism, feature films, documentaries and fiction,
Collins challenges readers to reflect upon what counts as violence
today and what can be done about it. Resisting violence offers a
common thread that weaves together disparate anti-violence projects
across the world. When parents of murdered children organize
against gun violence, when Black citizens march against the
excessive use of police force in their neighborhoods, and when
women and girls report sexual abuse by employers, coaches, and
community leaders, the ideas and actions of ordinary people lay a
foundation for new ways of thinking about and combating violence.
Through its ground-breaking analysis Lethal
Intersections aims to stimulate debate about violence as one
of the most pressing social problems of our times.
Timely, relevant and extremely student-friendly, Andersen/Hill
Collins' RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER: INTERSECTIONS AND INEQUALITIES,
10th edition, equips you with a multidimensional perspective on
today's social issues. Written by two leading authorities in the
field, this classic anthology uses a diverse collection of writings
by a variety of scholars to demonstrate how the complex
intersection of people's race, class, gender and sexuality shapes
their experiences in U.S. society. Professors Andersen and Hill
Collins begin each section with in-depth introductions to provide
an analytical framework for understanding social inequality.
Completely up-to-date, the readings cover current--and often
controversial topics--including undocumented students, myths about
immigrant crime, growing inequality, the role of social media in
social movement mobilization, health care inequality and more.
School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where
people are injured and die dominate the news. But how are these
incidents of violence and extreme harm connected? In this new book,
world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how
violence differentially affects people according to their class,
sexuality, nationality and ethnicity. These invisible workings of
overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms ‘lethal
intersections’, where multiple forms of oppression converge to
catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on
particular groups. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases from
investigative journalism, feature films, documentaries and fiction,
Collins challenges readers to reflect upon what counts as violence
today and what can be done about it. Resisting violence offers a
common thread that weaves together disparate anti-violence projects
across the world. When parents of murdered children organize
against gun violence, when Black citizens march against the
excessive use of police force in their neighborhoods, and when
women and girls report sexual abuse by employers, coaches, and
community leaders, the ideas and actions of ordinary people lay a
foundation for new ways of thinking about and combating violence.
Through its ground-breaking analysis Lethal
Intersections aims to stimulate debate about violence as one
of the most pressing social problems of our times.
In the first major update to this classic book in many years,
Collins traces the history and contours of Black women's ideas and
actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that
fosters Black women's survival, persistence, and success against
the odds. Through meticulous research that synthesizes the
important intellectual work done by Black women, Collins's timely
update demonstrates that Black women's ideas and actions are not
marginal concerns but rather are central to the future of social
justice within democratic societies. The combination of the text's
classic arguments and a preface and epilogue written expressly for
this edition speak to people who have long been working on social
justice and to a new generation of readers who are encountering the
ideas and actions of Black women for the first time. For this 30th
year anniversary edition, Patricia Hill Collins examines how the
ideas in this classic text speak to contemporary social issues and
identifies the directions needed for the future of Black feminist
thought.
An engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage
brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and
complexity of Black identity  Building on a technique that
has roots in European and American traditions, Black artists have
turned to collage as a way to convey how the intersecting facets of
their lives combine to make whole individuals. Artists have
assembled pieces of paper, fabrics, and other, often salvaged,
materials to create unified compositions that express the endless
possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite the
fragmentation of our times. Â As artist Deborah Roberts
asserts, “With collage, I can create a more expansive and
inclusive view of the Black cultural experience.† More
than 50 artists are represented in the book’s 140 color images,
with some creating original artworks for this project. Featured
artists include such well-known figures as Mark Bradford, Lauren
Halsey, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Howardena Pindell,
Tschabalala Self, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, and Kara Walker.
In addition to scholarly essays, the publication contains short
biographies of each artist written by Fisk University students.
 Distributed for the Frist Art Museum  Exhibition
Schedule  Frist Art Museum, Nashville (September
15–December 31, 2023)  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(February 18–May 12, 2024)  The Phillips Collection,
Washington, DC (July 6–September 22, 2024) Â
In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill
Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to
develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social
inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While
intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues,
Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a
critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to
fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect
on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places
intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical
traditions-from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought-to
sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical
purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into
intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.
In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers
on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been
used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a
new brand of racism around the world today.
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination,
African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition
that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally
published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the
words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both
within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an
interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black
feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and
Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history,
the result is a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that
provided the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought and
its canon.
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.
A provocative analysis of the new contours of Black nationalism and
feminism in the context of the changing politics of race in
America.
The second edition of this strong collection brings together
classical statements on social stratification with current and
original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate
on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for
students in courses on social stratification, inequality, and
social theory, this new edition includes a revised and updated
editor's introduction and conclusion, along with five new chapters
on race and gender from distinguished scholars in the field.
Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists
of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills
renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive
career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings
developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was
filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She
also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African
American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph
Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and
interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as
distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings
insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street
scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows
each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his
impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking
discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during
the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book
that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many
challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic
vision.
In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill
Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to
develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social
inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While
intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues,
Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a
critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to
fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect
on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places
intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical
traditions-from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought-to
sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical
purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into
intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination,
African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition
that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally
published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the
words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both
within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an
interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black
feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and
Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history,
the result is a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that
provided the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought and
its canon.
In the first major update to this classic book in many years,
Collins traces the history and contours of Black women's ideas and
actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that
fosters Black women's survival, persistence, and success against
the odds. Through meticulous research that synthesizes the
important intellectual work done by Black women, Collins's timely
update demonstrates that Black women's ideas and actions are not
marginal concerns but rather are central to the future of social
justice within democratic societies. The combination of the text's
classic arguments and a preface and epilogue written expressly for
this edition speak to people who have long been working on social
justice and to a new generation of readers who are encountering the
ideas and actions of Black women for the first time. For this 30th
year anniversary edition, Patricia Hill Collins examines how the
ideas in this classic text speak to contemporary social issues and
identifies the directions needed for the future of Black feminist
thought.
The Adventures of Katie Bubbles is a new series written for today's
children. Illustrated by a nine-year-old girl, this vocabulary
building, faced paced, amusing and imaginative series, tells the
tale of Katie Bubbles, a warm hearted, red headed girl, given to
random acts of kindness. The trouble is her genius inventor big
brother, Giggles Bubbles. In Book 1: The Boston Adventure, Giggles
makes a "floating water-mix" in Katie's wading pool and the next
thing you know, Katie Bubbles hears a noise out by her pool and
goes out to investigate and accidentally winds up in a giant
floating bubble When the winds kick up, Katie finds herself
floating through the sky toward the Boston Public Library. Giggles
watches in amazement and shock as his sister floats away. He panics
and goes next door and begs his sister's best friend, Sujatha
Wong-Sanchez, to help him rescue Katie. Sujatha suggests that they
call Giggles' capable, military trained almost-Uncle Dom to ask for
help and the adventure begins The book contains 12+ black and
white, full page, wonderful illustrations Spread across 17 exciting
chapters (70 pages of enjoyment ). Written for young readers ages
7-12, this book will keep the interest of parents (and
Grandparent's) that read to their younger children. Both girls and
boys will enjoy this book. The series takes place in today's
digital world and computers, GPS's, and flat screens, are as common
in the book as they are in real life today. Learn more at http:
//mykatiebubbles.com On Facebook and Twitter The series is designed
with vocabulary enrichment in mind, so All Katie Bubbles books
include a "Words You May Not Know" vocabulary building appendix
where "big words" are defined by the author in simple language, so
that children can quickly learn the meaning of new words, while
they enjoy reading the Katie Bubbles Series. A portion of the
proceeds from this book will go to breast cancer research, via a
charitable donation to Susan G Komen, for the Cure.
"The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies is one of the best
handbooks outlining the latest thinking on race and ethnic studies
published in recent years...The breadth of themes and the depth of
discussion are ambitious, offering the reader an A-Z guide of
contemporary thinking on race and ethnicity...a valuable resource
for scholars and activists alike." - Runnymede Bulletin What is the
state of race and ethnic studies today? How has the field emerged?
What are the core concepts, debates and issues? This panoramic,
critical survey of the field supplies researchers and students with
a vital resource. It is a rigorous, focused examination of the
central questions in the field today. The text examines: The roots
of the field of race and ethnic studies. The distinction between
race and ethnicity. Methodological issues facing researchers.
Intersections between race and ethnicity and questions of
sexuality, gender, nation and social transformation. The challenge
of multiculturalism. Race, ethnicity and globalization. Race and
the family. Race and education. Race and religion. Planned and
edited by a distinguished team of Anglo-American scholars, the
Handbook pools an impressive range of international world class
expertise and insight. It provides a landmark work in the field
which will be the measure of debate and research for years to come.
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On Lynchings (Paperback)
Ida B.Wells- Barnett; Introduction by Patricia Hill Collins
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Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to
African-American people, it is a fact of history that their social
oppression continued long after. The most virulent form of this
ongoing persecution was the practice of lynching carried out by mob
rule, often as local law enforcement officials looked the other
way. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than 100 African Americans
per year were lynched, and in 1892 alone the toll of murdered men
and women reached a peak of 161. In that awful year, the
twenty-three-year-old Ida B. Wells, the editor of a small newspaper
for blacks in Memphis, Tennessee, raised one lone voice of protest.
In her paper she charged that white businessmen had instigated
three local lynchings against their black competitors. In
retaliation for her outspoken courage a goon-squad of angry whites
destroyed her editorial office and print shop, and she was forced
to flee the South and move to New York City. So began a crusade
against lynching which became the focus of her long, active, and
very courageous life. In New York she began lecturing against the
abhorrent vigilante practice and published her first pamphlet on
the subject called "Southern Horrors". After moving to Chicago and
marrying lawyer Ferdinand Barnett, she continued her campaign,
publishing A Red Record in 1895 and Mob Rule in New Orleans, about
the race riots in that city, in 1900. All three of these documents
are here collected in this work, a shocking testament to cruelty
and the dark American legacy of racial prejudice. Anticipating
possible accusations of distortion, Wells-Barnett was careful to
present factually accurate evidence and she deliberately relied on
southern white sources as well as statistics gathered by the
Chicago Tribune. Using the words of white journalists, she created
a damning indictment of unpunished crimes that was difficult to
dispute since southern white men who had witnessed the appalling
incidents had written the descriptions. Along with her husband she
played an active role in the founding of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Due to her efforts,
the NAACP launched an intensive campaign against lynching after
World War I. Her work remains important to this day not only as a
cry of protest against injustice but also as valuable historical
documentation of terrible crimes that must never be forgotten. This
edition is enhanced by an introduction by Patricia Hill Collins is
an American academic specialising in race, class and gender. She is
a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University
of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of the
Department of African-American Studies at the University of
Cincinnati, and a past President of the American Sociological
Association.
Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars,
theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian
culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of
the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of
photography, this collection offers essays, interviews, and
theoretical reflections at the intersection of comparative, visual,
and cultural studies. Its chapters, illustrated with more than 130
black and white images and an eight-page colour section, explore
how Italian literature, cinema, popular culture, and politics have
engaged with the medium of photography over the course of time. The
collection includes topics such as Futurism's ambivalent
relationship to photography, the influence of American photography
on Italian neorealist cinema, and the connection between the
photograph and Duchamp's concept of the Readymade. With
contributions from writer and theorist Umberto Eco, photographer
Franco Vaccari, art historian Robert Valtorta, and cultural
historian Robert Lumley, Stillness in Motion engages with crucial
historical and cultural moments in Italian history, examining each
one through particular photographic practices.
Since stepping down as the 100th President of the American
Sociological Association, Patricia Hill Collins has been lecturing
extensively at universities and at private and public organizations
about the role of the intellectual in public culture and how well
intellectuals communicate questions about contemporary social
issues to the larger public. This book is a collection of those
lectures, along with new and (a few) previously-published essays.
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