Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice

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U of Minnesota Press, 1998 - Social Science - 312 pages
A professor of sociology explores how black feminist thought confronts the injustices of poverty and white supremacy, and argues that those operating outside the mainstream emphasize sociological themes based on assumptions different than those commonly accepted. Original. UP.
 

Contents

Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited
3
Part II
71
On Fighting Words with Fighting Words
79
Black Women
94
the Politics of Postmodernism
124
Moving beyond Critique
187
Standpoints and Black Feminist Thought
201
Toward
229
Notes
253
Glossary
275
Index
305
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