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Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice, Vol. 7 »

Authors: Patricia Hill Collins, Patricia Hill Collins, Patricia Hill Collins
ISBN-13: 9780816623778, ISBN-10: 0816623775
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Politics of Critical Social Theory
Pt. I	Black Women's Knowledge and Changing Power Relations
	Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited	3
1	The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: African-American Women and the New Politics of Containment	11
2	Coming to Voice, Coming to Power: Black Feminist Thought as Critical Social Theory	44
Pt. II	Black Feminist Thought and Critical Social Theory
	On Fighting Words with "Fighting Words"
3	On Race, Gender, and Science: Black Women as Objects and Agents of Sociological Knowledge	95
4	What's Going On? Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Postmodernism	124
5	When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism	155
Pt. III	Toward Justice
	Moving beyond Critique	187
6	Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought	201
7	Searching for Sojourner Truth: Toward an Epistemology of Empowerment	229
	Notes	253
	Glossary	275
	Works Cited	283
	Index	305