Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics) (Volume 138)

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, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that provided the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought and its canon.

• Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
• Intersectionality (Key Concepts)
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
• Racial Formation in the United States
• Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
• This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color
• Women, Race, & Class