Challenging Power Structures From The Inside, Working

The Role Model Approach To Social Change Is No Substitute For Challenging Unjust Employment Practices, Educational Policies And Housing.

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.

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

Challenging Power Structures From The Inside, Working The Cracks Within The System, However, Requires Learning To Speak Multiple Languages Of Power Convincingly.

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