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.

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.

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

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

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.

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.