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Since stepping down as the 100th President of the American Sociological Association, Patricia Hill Collins has been lecturing extensively at universities and at private and public organizations about the role of the intellectual in public culture and how well intellectuals communicate questions about contemporary social issues to the larger public. This book is a collection of those lectures, along with new and (a few) previously-published essays. -- Product details.
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Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
Continental philosophy. --- Feminism. --- Womanism. --- Women, Black.
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This study examines the Black Women's Renaissance (BWR) - the flowering of literary talent among African American women at the end of the 20th century. It focuses on the historical and heritage novels of the 1980s and the vexed relationship between black cultural nationalism and black feminism. It argues that when the nation seemingly fell out of fashion, black women writers sought to re-create what Renan called "a soul, a spiritual principle" for their ethnic group. BWR narratives, especially those associated with womanism, appreciated "culture bearing" mothers as cultural reproducers of the nation and transmitters of its values. In this way, the writers of the BWR gave rise to "matrifocal" cultural nationalism that superseded masculine cultural nationalism of the previous decade and made black women, instead of black men, principal agents/carriers of national identity. This monograph argues that even though matrifocal nationalism empowered women, ultimately it was a flawed project. It promoted gender and cultural essentialism, i.e. it glorified black motherhood and mother-daughter bonding and condemned other, more radical models of black female subjectivity. Moreover, the BWR, vivified by middle-class and educated black women, turned readers' attention from more contentious social issues, such as class mobility or wealth redistribution. The monograph compares the cultural nationalist novels of the 1980s with social protest novels written by the same authors in the 1970s and explains the rationale behind the change in their aesthetic and political agenda. It also contrasts novels written by womanist writers (Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor to name just a few) and by African Caribbean immigrant or second-generation writers (Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid and Michelle Cliff) to show that, on the score of cultural nationalism, the BWR was not a monolithic phenomenon. African American and African Caribbean women writers collectively contributed to the flourishing of the BWR, but they did not share the same ideas on black identities, histories, or the question of ethnonational belonging.
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Imagining Black Womanhood illuminates the experiences of the women and girls of the Girls Empowerment Project, an Afrocentric, womanist, single sex after-school program located in one of the Bay Area's largest and most impoverished housing developments. Stephanie Sears carefully examines the stakes of the complex negotiations of Black womanhood for both the girls served by the project and for the women who staffed it. Rather than a multigenerational alliance committed to women's and girls' empowerment, the women and girls often appeared to struggle against each other, with the girls' "politics of respect" often in conflict with the staff's "politics of respectability," a conflict especially highlighted in the public contexts of dance performances. This ground-breaking case study offers significant insights into practices of resistance, identity work, youth empowerment, cultural politics and organizational power.
Womanism --- African American girls. --- Women, Black --- Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Ecowomanism emerges from third wave womanist thought that emphasises interdisciplinary, interreligious and intergenerational dialogue as approaches to environmental ethics. Ecowomanism unashamedly validates the importance of the perspectives of women of color, and especially the voices, perspectives and contributions of women of African descent.
Human ecology --- Ecotheology. --- Womanist theology. --- Womanism. --- Religious aspects.
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Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality -- as distinct from religion per se -- which invokes a metaphysically informed approach to activism.
Mysticism. --- Mysticism. --- Mysticism. --- Mysticisme. --- Social change. --- Social change. --- Spiritual life. --- Spiritual life. --- Vie spirituelle. --- Womanism. --- Womanism. --- Womanisme. --- mysticism.
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"In Feminism in Coalition Liza Taylor examines how U.S. women of color feminists' coalitional politics provides an indispensable resource to contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice activism. Taylor charts the theorization of coalition in the work of Bernice Johnson Reagon, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, the Combahee River Collective, Gloria Anzaldu̹a, Cherri̹e Moraga, and others. For these activist-scholars, coalition is a dangerous struggle that emerges from a shared political commitment to undermining oppression and an emphasis on self-transformation. Taylor shows how their coalitional understandings of group politics, identity, consciousness, and scholarship have transformed how activists and theorists build alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, faith, and ethnicity to tackle systems of domination. Their coalitional politics enrich current discussions surrounding the impetus and longevity of effective activism, present robust theoretical accounts of political subject formation and political consciousness, and demonstrate the promise of collective modes of scholarship. In this way, women of color feminists have been formulating solutions to long-standing problems in political theory. By illustrating coalition's vitality to a variety of practical and philosophical interdisciplinary discussions, Taylor encourages us to rethink feminist and political theory" --
Womanism. --- Womanism --- Feminism --- African American feminists. --- Feminist theory --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) --- Community organization --- United States of America
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Dans ce Petit manuel, Djamila Ribeiro, philosophe et féministe brésilienne, aborde le racisme dans le milieu professionnel et culturel, parle de négritude, de blanchité, de désirs et affects. En dix chapitres courts et impactants, elle présente des pistes de réflexion pour reconnaître les discriminations, prendre conscience de certains privilèges, adopter des pratiques antiracistes et féministes et, ainsi, assumer la responsabilité de faire bouger les choses. C'est une pratique qui commence dans les attitudes quotidiennes, et nous concerne toutes et tous. Djamila Ribeiro, chercheuse en philosophie politique, est la référence du mouvement féministe noir, antiraciste, pro-LGBT et antimachiste au Brésil. Chroniqueuse pour la presse et la TV, elle donne des conférences dans le monde entier. Avec un demi-million de suiveurs sur les réseaux sociaux, c'est une activiste de poids.Préface de Françoise Vergès, militante féministe décoloniale et politologue. Pratique, direct et fort.
Womanism. --- Feminism. --- Discrimination. --- Race discrimination. --- Race discrimination --- Racism --- Philosophy. --- Social problems --- Feminism --- Whiteness --- Blackness --- Book --- Discrimination
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"Un dialogue entre deux femmes, philosophes, noires, l'une Brésilienne, l'autre Française d'origine congolaise. Dans ce dialogue, né d'une rencontre à Paris, ces deux intellectuelles pensent leurs expériences diasporiques de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique et interrogent leur rapport au savoir, au militantisme, aux débats qui traversent les espaces publics français et brésilien. Leurs voix, parfois éclatées, font constamment retour vers ce qui leur est commun. Leurs récits partagés de la négritude composent une mémoire dense et plurielle - une mémoire africaine diasporique. Les deux philosophes parlent de l'Afrique, du féminisme, de l'empowerment, du poids de la colonialité, et surtout de la puissance des intellectuelles noires - car, insistent-elles, l'histoire noire n'est pas seulement celle d'une lutte : c'est aussi celle de la pensée." --
Womanisme. --- Diasporas --- Women, Black --- Feminism. --- Racism --- Womanism. --- Social conditions. --- Féminisme --- Colonialisme --- Afrique
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