Women Gain Social Influence Through Their Roles

Thus, Gender Ideology No Only Creates Ides About Femininity But It Also Shapes Conceptions Of Masculinity.

Despite Long-standing Claims By Elites That Blacks, Women, Latinos, And Other Similarly Derogated Groups In The United States Remain Incapable Of Producing The Type Of Interpretive, Analytical Thought That Is Labeled Theory In The West, Powerful Knowledges Of Resistance That Toppled Former Social Structures Of Social Inequality Repudiate This View. Members Of These Groups Do In Fact Theorize, And Our Critical Social Theory Has Been Central To Our Political Empowerment And Search For Justice.

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.

Challenging Power Structures From The Inside, Working The Cracks Within The System, However, Requires Learning To Speak Multiple Languages Of Power Convincingly.

Work For Black Women Has Been An Important And Valued Dimension Of Afrocentric Definitions Of Black Motherhood.