A note toward intersectionality as interlocutory interstitiality kyoo lee the journal of speculative philosophy, volume 26, number 2, 2012, pp. Buy intersectionality key concepts first edition by hill collins, patricia, bilge, sirma isbn. The new politics of community patricia hill collins, 2010. Collins is a foundational theorist of what is commonly called intersectionality, a perspective on inequality which argues that oppressions of race, class. She is also the former head of the department of african american studies at the university of cincinnati, and the past president of the american sociological association council. Intersectionality opens with an insightful conversation on the definition of intersectionality as an analytic tool for understanding complexity in the world, diversity of people, and individual experiences. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Patricia hill collins looks at the phenomenon of intersectionality through the doors of two basic components of humanity, race and gender. Intersectionality has been a common theme in feminist theory, writing, and activism for the last few years. Patricia hill collins page 1 5252017 patricia hill collins department of sociology, 2112 parren mitchell artsociology bldg. 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. Intersectionality key concepts collins, patricia hill, bilge, sirma on. Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment 1990 proposed a form of standpoint theory that emphasized the perspective of african american women. Aug 23, 2019 intersectionality as critical social theory ebook written by patricia hill collins. Oct, 2019 sociologist patricia hill collins developed and explained the concept of intersectionality in her groundbreaking book, black feminist thought. Patricia hill collins american sociologist britannica. It appears your web browser is not configured to display pdf files. This article focuses on the idea of intersectionality, which has been accepted in a variety of disciplines such as psychology and political science. Ideas about community are especially prominent in latetwentiethcentury u.
The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike. According to patricia hill collins the matrix of domination is the form assumed by intersecting oppressions in one social location and can be seen as a historically specific organization of power in which social groups are embedded and which they aim to influence7. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read intersectionality as critical social theory. Intersectionality as critical social theory ebook written by patricia hill collins. Duke university press intersectionality as critical social. And yet there remains a great deal of misunderstanding over what intersectionality actually means and, subsequently, how it is supposed to manifest within the feminist movement. Duke university press intersectionality as critical.
What were once difuse ideas about the interconnectedness of people, social problems, and ideas are now central to intersectionality as a recognized form of critical in quiry and praxis. Women like sociologist patricia hill collins, critical race scholar kimberle crenshaw, and writer bell hooks are just a few examples. Sociologist patricia hill collins developed and explained the concept of intersectionality in her groundbreaking book, black feminist thought. She observes the black woman, or the black feminine, as the ultimate image of inequality that results from the.
In intersectionality as critical social theory patricia hill collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionalitys capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. Collins draws from her own experiences with discrimination, which she encountered head on as a black workingclass student who attended white middleclass schools. Black feminist thought the flame by unite youth dublin. In revisiting intersectionality, collins and bilge. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology at the university of maryland, college park. Black womens experiences in the center of analysis without privileging those experiences collins, 2000, p. Rather than examining gender, race, class, and nation as distinctive social hierarchies, intersectionality examines how they mutually construct one another. Patricia hill collins and sirma bilges book, intersectionality, is from the key concepts series from polity, joining the publishers other concept books on topics like work, childhood, democracy, poverty, and justice.
In this article, i analyze intersectionality as a knowledge. Intersectionality has attracted substantial scholarly attention in the 1990s. Patricia hill collins page 4 5252017 whats critical about critical race theory. Located in african american womens everyday and historical experiences of oppression and resistance, black feminist epistemology and critical social theory, patricia hill collins raises the intellectual level in all these arenas. Collinss concept of a matrix of domination, advanced in her. They analyze the emergence, growth and contours of the concept and show how intersectional. Read intersectionality by patricia hill collins available from rakuten kobo. In this new book patricia hill collins and sirma bilge provide a muchneeded. Intersectionality as critical social theory by patricia hill. The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist.
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While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability and ethnicity shape one another. Intersectionality in social justice movements remain an important part of black feminism in the twentyfirst century. Patricia hill collins wrote, dubois saw race, class, and nation not primarily as personal identity categories but as social hierarchies that shaped africanamerican access to status, poverty, and power. Pdf interview with patricia hill collins on critical. Intersectionality by patricia hill collins, sirma bilge. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a pdf of a single chapter of a title in oxford handbooks online for personal use for. It then pays special attention to intersectionality as critical inquiry and praxis. Sirma bilge collins and bilge provide a muchneeded, introduction to the field of intersectional knowledge and praxis. Intersectionality patricia hill collins, sirma bilge.
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