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Collins, P. H. (2000). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd edn.. London: Routledge. "Like everyone else, African-American women come to understand the workings of intersecting oppressions without obvious teaching or conscious learning.  The controlling images of Black women are not simply gradfter onto existing social institutions but are so pervasive that even though the images themselves change in popular imagination, Black women's portrayal as the Other persists." (p. 88) The newpaper comic featuring T orchy Brown was created by Jackie Ormes in the early 1950s.  Find out more about Torchy and Jackie by clicking here .

Collins, P. H. (2000). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd edn.. London: Routledge. "Assuming that Black poverty in the United States is passed on intergenerationally via the values that parents teach their children, dominant ideology suggests that Black children lack the attention and care allegedly lavished on White, middle-class children. This alleged cultural deficiency seriously retards Black children’s achievement. Such a view diverts attention from political and economic inequalities that increasingly characterize global capitalism. It also suggests that anyone can rise from poverty if he or she only received good values at home. Inferior housing, underfunded schools, employment discrimination, and consumer racism all but disappear from Black women’s lives. In this sanitized view of American society, those African-Americans who remain poor cause their own victimization." (p. 76) The newpaper comic fea...

Collins, P. H. (2000). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd edn.. London: Routledge. "Black women intellectuals from all walks of life must aggressively push the theme of self-definition because speaking for oneself and crafting one’s own agenda is essential to empowerment " (p.36) The newpaper comic featuring T orchy Brown was created by Jackie Ormes in the early 1950s.  Find out more about Torchy and Jackie by clicking here .

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 T orchy Brown was created by Jackie Ormes in the early 1950s.  Find out more about Torchy and Jackie by clicking here .