Black Women's Feelings Of Responsibility For Nurturing

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

A White College Student From A Private College Goes Into A Poor Neighborhood And Volunteers Four Hours A Week And That's Considered Exemplary. [whereas] A Poor Kid Who Lives In That Community And Takes Care Of All The Kids In That Neighborhood Four Hours Every Day Is Not Seen As A Volunteer.

That Which Commands Admiration In The White Woman Only Hastens The Degradation Of The Female Slave.

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.

Thus, Gender Ideology No Only Creates Ides About Femininity But It Also Shapes Conceptions Of Masculinity.