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Book SynopsisFrom the author of the classic Black Feminist Thought, a book on the nature and value of the public intellectual
Trade Review"On Intellectual Activism is Collins' attempt to frame her more-than-20-year intervention in the critical issues of gender, race and sexuality for an audience not likely to sit in on her--or anyone else's--introduction to gender studies class... Her book is a cogent reminder of the stakes of engagement." Ms. Magazine , Fall 2012 "On Intellectual Activism...presents readers with an opportunity to marvel at the incredible internal coherence of [Collins's] life's work. The sociology of Collins's imagining is quite appealing. Despite the sorrow reflected and generated by many of the topics under consideration, her analyses are enormously enjoyable to read because she is so cogent and she notices so much. Like a present-day sage, she seems able to interpret any situation - from the family rhetoric that supported Barack Obama's presidential election to the selection of housewares available at T. J. Maxx - with acuity... Her longstanding and gorgeously articulated contempt for the problematic standards that govern success in academia is on proud display in these writings that span decades."--Gender and Society
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Note on Usage I BLACK FEMINISM 1 Why Black Feminist Thought? 2 Fighting Words ... Or Yet Another Version of "The Emperor's New Clothes" 3 Black Sexual Politics 101 4 Resisting Racism, Writing Black Sexual Politics 5 Still Brave? Black Feminism as a Social Justice Project II SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 6 Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited 7 Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name 8 Changing Times: Sociological Complexities 9 The Racial Threat 10 Rethinking Knowledge, Community, and Empowerment: An Interview III CRITICAL EDUCATION 11 Critical Pedagogy and Engaged Scholarship: Lessons from Africana Studies 12 Teaching for a Change: Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Communities 13 Another Kind of Public Education 14 Making Space for Public Conversations: An Interview IV RACIAL POLITICS 15 Coloring Outside the Color Line 16 Are We Living in a Post-Racial World? 17 The Ethos of Violence 18 Who's Right? What's Left? Family Values and U.S. Politics V INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM REVISITED 19 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection 20 Where Do We Go from Here? Index
