On Intellectual Activism

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism; Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment; and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. She is a past president of the American Sociological Association.

"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

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on UsageI  BLACK FEMINISM1 Why Black Feminist Thought?2 Fighting Words . . . Or Yet Another Version of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”3 Black Sexual Politics 1014 Resisting Racism, Writing Black Sexual Politics5 Still Brave? Black Feminism as a Social Justice ProjectII  SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE6 Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited7 Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name8 Changing Times: Sociological Complexities9 The Racial Threat10 Rethinking Knowledge, Community, and Empowerment: An InterviewIII  CRITICAL EDUCATION11 Critical Pedagogy and Engaged Scholarship: Lessons from Africana Studies12 Teaching for a Change: Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Communities13 Another Kind of Public Education14 Making Space for Public Conversations: An InterviewIV RACIAL POLITICS15 Coloring Outside the Color Line16 Are We Living in a Post-Racial World?17 The Ethos of Violence18 Who’s Right? What’s Left? Family Values and U.S. PoliticsV  INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM REVISITED19 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection20 Where Do We Go from Here?Index