How does Black Feminist Thought contribute to our understanding the connections between knowledge, consciousness, and empowerment/agency?

300 – 500 words on each:

1. How does Black Feminist Thought contribute to our understanding the connections between knowledge, consciousness, and empowerment/agency?

2. How does Collins build on Beavoir’s theory of Subject/Object relations?

3. What are the 3 basic vectors that form the “matrix of domination”? Why are the interactions of these forces important?

4. What do the particular experiences and perspectives of a very particular group (in this case, black women) bring to the table? How can they inform our efforts to answer the question of philosophy?

Hill Collins, “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, excerpts from Chapter 2. Please read the introduction to the chapter, the section entitled “Why U.S. Black Feminist Thought?”(pgs 21-25 in the pdf) and the section entitled “Black Feminist Practice and Black Feminist Thought”, (from the bottom of pg 29 to the top of pg 33 in the pdf.)

From “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde (second book in the pdf), the chapter entitled “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (starting at pg 114 in the section for “Sister Outsider” in the pdf.)