PHILOS 3I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins, Serena Williams
27 Feb 2019
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Interview with patricia hill collins and transcript about black feminist thought: black feminist thought arises out of black feminist activism. Influenced by crenshaw intersectionality (black women"s experiences: distinction between black woman"s experience and black women"s experiences, uniting structure in us. Distinguishing features of black feminist thought: 1. Black women constitute an oppressed group: an intersecting set of oppressive social practices structure black women"s lives, and result in a pattern of common experiences: 2. Common challenges and patterns of experience arise, even if they also may result in diverse responses: 3. Shared standpoint and knowledge arise out of the common challenges and patterns of experience. There is a dialogical character of this relationship such that changes in thinking may result in changes in practice, and changes in practice may result in changes in thinking/knowledge: 4. Black women intellectuals make an essential contribution to this dialogical process.
