That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

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.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.