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Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

June 2, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Analyzing the common experience of racism in everyday life, Patricia Hill Collins does not attack the issue from a purely academic stance, but instead uses her daily life experiences to inform her critique. In "The Social Construction of Black ...

Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

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Recognizing One’s Oppression: On Collins’ Emerging Process

May 26, 2016 • by Aaron Neber

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. The black American woman resides in a conceptual space that exhibits a profound and complex network of interwoven modes of oppression. Throughout “Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images” from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, ...

Recognizing One’s Oppression: On Collins’ Emerging Process

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Beyoncé and the Sexual Objectification of Lemonade

The Most Neglected Person in America is the Black Woman

May 25, 2016 • by Liam Mugavin

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. “As overly aggressive, unfeminine women, Black matriarchs allegedly emasculated their lovers and husbands. These men, understandably, either deserted their partners or refused to marry the mothers of their children. From the dominant group’s perspective, the matriarch represented a failed ...

Beyoncé and the Sexual Objectification of Lemonade

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Lessons from Black Feminism on Textual Identity

May 23, 2016 • by Jordan Huston

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought offers an enticing tool for investigating identity formation. This text is grounded in the experience of black femininity. It is from this position, specified as the antithesis to the hegemonic matrix of whiteness, ...

Lessons from Black Feminism on Textual Identity

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The Dangers of White Feminism

May 13, 2016 • by Kyle O'Dowd

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Feminism suffers in its theoretical framework when it excludes other axes of oppression, and reproduces forms of domination. As Patricia Collins argues, historically, Black women have been excluded from the concerns of both feminists and Black progressive movements.[1] Here ...