Challenging Power Structures From The Inside, Working

To Maintain Their Power, Dominant Groups Create And Maintain A Popular System Of 'commonsense' Ideas That Support Their Right To Rule. In The United States, Hegemonic Ideologies Concerning Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, And Nation Are Often So Pervasive That It Is Difficult To Conceptualize Alternatives To Them, Let Alone Ways Of Resisting The Social Practices That They Justify.

Far Too Many Black Men Who Praise Their Own Mother Feel Less Accounted To The Mothers Of Their Own Children.

Most Activism Is Brought About By Us Ordinary People.

A White College Student From A Private College Goes Into A Poor Neighborhood And Volunteers Four Hours A Week And That's Considered Exemplary. [whereas] A Poor Kid Who Lives In That Community And Takes Care Of All The Kids In That Neighborhood Four Hours Every Day Is Not Seen As A Volunteer.

Under The Color-blind Ideology Of The New Racism, Blackness Must Be Seen As Evidence For The Alleged Color Blindness That Seemingly Characterizes Contemporary Economic Opportunity.