Patricia Hill
Patricia Hill
learning stuff
It's nice. I'm learning a lot of stuff that I didn't know, about teeth.
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.
ideas requirements groups
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.
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.
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
people ordinary ordinary-people
Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
shapes gender femininity
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
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.
motherhood black important
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.