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A Black feminist-inspired archaeology?:
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In this article, a transition over the past two decades with the emergence of feminist discourses, and the mapping of women onto archaeological pasts, is discussed, but Black feminist theorizing remains...Abstract:
Archaeology has undergone a transition over the past two decades with the emergence of feminist discourses, and the mapping of women onto archaeological pasts. Yet Black feminist theorizing remains...read more
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Culture Contact or Colonialism? Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America
TL;DR: The authors examines the conceptual foundation of archaeological "culture contact" studies by sharpening the terminological and interpretive distinction between "contact" and "colonism" to understand indigenous and colonial histories, focusing on short-term encounters rather than long-term entanglements.
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Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil.
TL;DR: Racism in. Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil as discussed by the authors, a history of racism and white supremacy in Brazil. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 175pp.
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South . By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. pp. xi, 544. $34.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.
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The archaeology of black americans in recent times
TL;DR: A review of work on African Americans through archaeology takes place under diasporic studies and relies on literature that defines the North American black experience as mentioned in this paper, focusing on the establishment of freedom by the founding of maroon communities and independent settlements of free people, particularly by archaeologists using knowledge of the diaspora to effect modern political change.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
TL;DR: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984 and was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision as mentioned in this paper. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative."
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Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
TL;DR: The authors argue that many Black female intellectuals have made creative use of their marginality to produce Black feminist thought that reflects a special standpoint on self, family, and society, and explore the sociological significance of three characteristic themes in such thought: (1) Black women's self-definition and self-valuation; (2) the interlocking nature of oppression; and (3) the importance of Afro-American women's culture.