Patricia Hill
Patricia Hill
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concern employees funding lost
I do have a concern because the employees we've lost are well-seasoned and well-trained, ... We have to find funding to be competitive.
community good promote
This is a community event-one of the first that we've had here to try to promote good will in the community.
learning stuff
It's nice. I'm learning a lot of stuff that I didn't know, about teeth.
motherhood black important
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
educational practice role-models
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
hero mean numbers
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
white slave-girl female
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.
powerful views long
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.
shapes gender femininity
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
people ordinary ordinary-people
Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
our-world views practice
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds
powerful survival adequate
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
challenges cracks language
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
race practice class
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. 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.