Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition
outsider-within locations: social locations or border spaces marking the boundaries between groups of unequal power. Individuals acquire identities as "outsiders within" by their placement in these social locations.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition oppression: an unjust situation where, systematically and over a long period of time, one group denies another group access to the resources of society. Race, gender, class, sexuality, nation, age, and ethnicity constitute major forms of oppression.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition oppositional knowledge: a type of knowledge developed by, for, and/or in defense of an oppressed group's interests. Ideally, it fosters the group's self-definition and self-determination.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition matrix of domination: the overall organization of hierarchical power relations for any society. Any specific matrix of domination has (1) a particular arrangement of intersecting systems of oppression, e.g., race, social class, gender, sexuality, citizenship status, ethnicity and age; and (2) a particular organization of its domains of power, e.g., structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition intersectionality: analysis claiming that systems of race, social class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, and age form mutually constructing features of social organization, which shape Black women's experiences and, in turn, are shaped by Black women.
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