![]() ![]() Collins argues that blackwomen are uniquely situated in that they stand at the focal point where two exceptionallypowerful and prevalent systems of oppression come together: race and gender. Collins is saying that we can learn significantly from black women’s knowledge.Black women sit at a theoretically interesting point. ![]() Black women’sexperiences in the center of analysis without privileging those experiences” (Collins, 2000,p. However, it is vital to note that her intent is to place “U.S. What Patricia Hill Collins gives usis a way of transcending group specific politics that is based upon black feministepistemology. ![]() But Collins is also one of the fewsocial thinkers who are able to rise above their own experiences to challenge us with asignificant view of oppression and identity politics that not only has the possibility ofchanging the world but also of opening up the prospect of continuous change.For change to be continuous, it can’t be exclusively focused on one social group.In other words, a social movement that is only concerned with racial inequality, will endits influence once equality for that group is achieved. ![]() Patricia Hill Collins:Intersecting OppressionsPatricia Hill Collins is principally concerned with the relationships among empowerment,self-definition, and knowledge and she is obviously concerned with black women: it is theoppression with which she is most intimately familiar. ![]()
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