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Black Feminist Theory Comic: Adhering to a male-defined ethos


Collins, P. H. (2000). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd edn.. London: Routledge.


"Taken together, the supposedly seamless web of economy, polity, and ideology function as a highly effective system of social control designed to keep African-American women in an assigned, subordinate place. This larger system of oppression words to suppress the ideas of Black women intellectuals and to protect elite White male interests and worldviews" (p.5)

"Adhering to a male-defined ethos that far too often equates racial progress with the acquisition of an ill-defined manhood has left much U.S. Black thought with a prominent masculine bias" (p.7)

The newpaper comic featuring Torchy Brown was created by Jackie Ormes in the early 1950s.  Find out more about Torchy and Jackie by clicking here.

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