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Black Feminist Thought

Double Consciousness

Racial Prejudice & Media

Critical Theory

The dangers of separateness for the sake of unity and the "disallowing" of any group is the first step in the destruction of a community or family. In Paradise, Toni Morrison explores the sacredness of motherhood, female community and its necessity in the Black woman's search for self.

It is a reaction to the realization that “feminism” does not encompass the perspectives Black women

Womanism addresses the racist and classist aspects of white feminism and actively opposes separatist ideologies. It includes the word “man”, recognizing that Black men are an integral part of Black women’s lives as their children, lovers, and family members.

Two significant contributions toward understanding the importance of connections among knowledge, consciousness, and political empowerment: 1) A fundamental paradigmatic shift in how we think about oppression - embracing a paradigm of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression, reconceptualize the social relations of domination and resistance; 2) Ongoing epistemological debates in feminist theory and the sociology of knowledge concerning ways of assessing "truth." Offering subordinate groups new knowledge about their own experiences can be empowering; but revealing new ways of knowing that allow subordinate groups to define their own reality has far greater implications.

Hybridity

Liminality

Third Space