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ISBN-10: 1478006463
ISBN-13: 9781478006466
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/23/2019
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.80" H

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

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In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality’s capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical traditions-from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought-to sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into intersectionality’s potential to reshape the world.

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"With remarkable brilliance and breadth, Patricia Hill Collins examines the theoretical dimensions of intersectionality in new ways and in dialogue with other influential social theories and resistant knowledges. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory explains why critical social theory matters in the real world and how intersectionality can achieve its potential as a tool for social action needed to transform the world for the better. Once again, Patricia Hill Collins shines as a masterful scholar of critical inquiry, politics, and social change."–Dorothy Roberts, author of "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty"
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ISBN-10: 1478006463
ISBN-13: 9781478006466
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/23/2019
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.80" H
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