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.
Patricia Hill CollinsFar too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
Patricia Hill CollinsThe role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
Patricia Hill CollinsThus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
Patricia Hill CollinsTo 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.
Patricia Hill Collins