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Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

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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 opportunity.

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Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

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Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

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To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

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That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

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Patricia Hill Collins

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Born: May 1, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Patricia Hill Collins is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Known for:
  1. Black Feminist Thought (1990)
  2. On Intellectual Activism (2012)
  3. From Black Power to Hip Hop (2006)

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