Patricia Hill Collins Livres

For this 30th year anniversary edition, Patricia Hill Collins examines how the ideas in this classic text speak to contemporary social issues and identifies the directions needed for the future of Black feminist thought.

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike.

RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and is further strengthened by conceptual introductions by the authors. Students will find the readings engaging and accessible, but may gain the most from the introduction sections that highlight key points and relate the essential concepts. Included in the collection of readings are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on important social issues such as prison, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, and racism, among other topics.

In this 30th anniversary edition, Patricia Hill Collins explores the relevance of her classic text to current social issues, highlighting the evolution of Black feminist thought. She reflects on the foundational ideas presented in the original work and discusses the necessary future directions for the movement, emphasizing its importance in addressing contemporary challenges faced by Black women.

School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. But how are these incidents of violence and extreme harm connected? In this new book, world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how violence differentially affects people according to their class, sexuality, nationality and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms ‘lethal intersections’, where multiple forms of oppression converge to catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on particular groups. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases from investigative journalism, feature films, documentaries and fiction, Collins challenges readers to reflect upon what counts as violence today and what can be done about it. Resisting violence offers a common thread that weaves together disparate anti-violence projects across the world. When parents of murdered children organize against gun violence, when Black citizens march against the excessive use of police force in their neighborhoods, and when women and girls report sexual abuse by employers, coaches, and community leaders, the ideas and actions of ordinary people lay a foundation for new ways of thinking about and combating violence. Through its ground-breaking analysis Lethal Intersections aims to stimulate debate about violence as one of the most pressing social problems of our times.

Die Arbeiten der afroamerikanischen Soziologin Patricia Hill Collins haben den Begriff von Intersektionalität in den letzten dreißig Jahren entscheidend geprägt. Weltweit wird er von Wissenschaftler*innen und Aktivist*innen aufgegriffen. In Intersektionalität als kritische Sozialtheorie widmet sie sich den Grundlagen des Konzepts – und leistet damit eine längst überfällige Reflexion. Collins bringt unterschiedliche Denkrichtungen – von der Frankfurter Schule bis zum Schwarzen feministischen Denken – miteinander in Dialog. Die von ihr vorgestellten Denkwerkzeuge ermöglichen es, das Potenzial der „Intersektionalität als kritische Sozialtheorie“ zu verstehen, zu verwirklichen und ihre Bedeutung für gesellschaftliche Veränderung zu erhalten. »Intersektionalität als kritische Sozialtheorie ist ein theoretischer Pageturner. (…) Es ist ein idealer Begleittext für Graduiertenseminare über Intersektionalität; für Praktiker*innen von Intersektionalität, die ihre Praxis vertiefen wollen; und für akademische Leser*innen, die von dem Engagement für Selbstreflexivität, intellektueller Heterogenität, Ethik und Social Justice profitieren können, das Collins treffend und geschickt wieder in die Intersektionalität einbringt.« – Anna Carastathis, Hypatia