Patricia Hill Collins Quotations

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

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.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

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.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.