![]() ![]() In a matrix of domination that produces distinctive experiences of oppression and resistance. ![]() Collins argued that these structures of inequality intersect, in any specific historical and community context, She emphasized the distinctiveness of black feminist thought in relation to undifferentiated feminist and race based analyses, and she became a leader in the academic movement that began to challenge unitary gender or race analyses that did not account for the cross cutting dynamics of these systems of oppression. Drawing from diverse texts produced by black women, she brought forward a body of subjugated knowledge in an influential article, ”Learning from the Outsider Within” (1986), and then a book titled Black Feminist Thought (1991 revd. Collins indicates that her scholarship grew out of resistance to her experiences as a young African American student and then teacher, when she confronted a racist curriculum and schools that seemed to have no room for young people like her. ![]()
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