Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition
racism: a system of unequal power and privilege where humans are divided into groups or "races" with social rewards unevenly distributed to groups based on their racial classification. Variations of racism include institutionalized racism, scientific racism, and everyday racism. In the United States, racial segregation constitutes a fundamental principle of how racism is organized.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition racial solidarity: the belief that members of a racial group have common interests and should support one another above the interests of members of other racial groups.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition racial segregation: a constellation of policies that separate groups by race based on the belief that proximity to the group deemed to be inferior will harm the allegedly superior group. Though currently forbidden by law in the United States, racially segregated neighborhoods, schools, occupational categories, and access to public facilities persist.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition public and private spheres: two areas of social organization with the public sphere of work and government typically juxtaposed to the private sphere of home and family.
Glossary, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins, 2nd edition paradigm: an interpretive framework used to explain social phenomena.
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