Talk:Patricia Hill Collins

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 * Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial language is replaced by covert racial euphemisms that reference the same phenomena-talk of "niggers" and "ghettos" becomes replaced by phrases such as "urban," "welfare mothers," and "street crime." Everyone knows what these terms mean, and if they don't, they quickly figure it out.
 * On Intellectual Activism, 2012


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