In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-Ameri
can women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known.
In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins
set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and write
rs, both within the academy and without. Here Collins provides an interpretive f
ramework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis,
bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
