REFLECTION

Reflection

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Collins

Black Feminism, Knowledge and Power

The Intersectional paradigms make two important contributions to understanding the connections between knowledge and empowerment:

They stimulate new interpretation of African-American women's experiences.

They shed new light on how domination is organized.

The term matrix of domination describes this overall social organization within which intersecting oppressions originate, develop, and are contained.

Nation and Nationalism

Race, class gender, and sexuality all remain closely intertwined with nation. Nationalism is a political ideology that is expressed by any group that self-defines as distinctive people or nation. When one group acquires sufficient state power that allows ...