Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism; Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment; and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. She is a past president of the American Sociological Association."On Intellectual Activism is Collins' attempt to frame her more-than-20-year intervention in the critical issues of gender, race and sexuality for an audience not likely to sit in on her--or anyone else's--introduction to gender studies class... Her book is a cogent reminder of the stakes of engagement." Ms. Magazine , Fall 2012 "On Intellectual Activism...presents readers with an opportunity to marvel at the incredible internal coherence of [Collins's] life's work. The sociology of Collins's imagining is quite appealing. Despite the sorrow reflected and generated by many of the topics under consideration, her analyses are enormously enjoyable to read because she is so cogent and she notices so much. Like a present-day sage, she seems able to interpret any situation - from the family rhetoric that supported Barack Obama's presidential election to the selection of housewares available at T. J. Maxx - with acuity... Her longstanding and gorgeously articulated contempt for the problematic standards that govern success in academia is on proud display in these writings that span decades."--Gender and Society
Introduction
Note on Usage
I BLACK FEMINISM
1 Why Black Feminist Thought?
2 Fighting Words . . . Or Yet Another Version of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
3 Black Sexual Politics 101
4 Resisting Racism, Writing Black Sexual Politics
5 Still Brave? Black Feminism as a Social Justice Project
II SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
6 Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited
7 Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name
8 Changing Times: Sociological Complexities
9 The Racial Threat
10 Rethinking Knowledge, Community, and Empowerment: An Interview
III CRITICAL EDUCATION
11 Critical Pedagogy and Engaged Scholarship: Lessons from Africana Studies
12 Teaching for a Change: Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Communities
13 Another Kind of Public Education
14 Making Space for Public Conversations: An Interview
IV RACIAL POLITICS
15 Coloring Outside the Color Line
16 Are We Living in a Post-Racial World?
17 The Ethos of Violence
18 Who’s Right? What’s Left? Family Values and U.S. Politics
V INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM REVISITED
19 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection
20 Where Do We Go from Here?
Index