On Intellectual Activism

by Collins, Patricia Hill

• ISBN13: 9781439909614
• ISBN10: 143990961X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-30
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

From the author of the classic Black Feminist Thought, a book on the nature and value of the public intellectual

Author Biography

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 (Temple), Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism, She is a Pasts President of the American Sociological Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Note on Usage	p. xxiii
Black Feminism
Why Black Feminist Thought?	p. 3
Fighting Words … Or Yet Another Version of "The Emperor's New Clothes"	p. 17
Black Sexual Politics 101	p. 27
Resisting Racism, Writing Black Sexual Politics	p. 41
Still Brave? Black Feminism as a Social Justice Project	p. 49
Sociology of Knowledge
Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited	p. 65
Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name	p. 77
Changing Times: Sociological Complexities	p. 88
The Racial Threat	p. 96
Rethinking Knowledge, Community, and Empowerment: An Interview	p. 101
Critical Education
Critical Pedagogy and Engaged Scholarship: Lessons from Africana Studies	p. 117
Teaching for a Change: Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Communities	p. 127
Another Kind of Public Education	p. 138
Making Space for Public Conversations: An Interview	p. 144
Racial Politics
Coloring Outside the Color Line	p. 161
Are We Living in a Post-Racial World?	p. 174
The Ethos of Violence	p. 187
Who's Right? What's Left? Family Values and U.S. Politics	p. 198
Intellectual Activism Revisited
Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection	p. 213
Where Do We Go from Here?	p. 230
Index	p. 245
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