ABOUT THIS BOOK

Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a "new" racism and call for new political responses to it. Using the experiences of African American women and men as a touchstone for analysis, Patricia Hill Collins examines new forms of racism as well as political responses to it.In this incisive and stimulating book, renowned social theorist Patricia Hill Collins investigates how nationalism has operated and re-emerged in the wake of contemporary globalization and offers an interpretation of how black nationalism works today in the wake of changing black youth identity. Hers is the first study to analyze the interplay of racism, nationalism, and feminism in the context of twenty-first century black America.From Black Power to Hip Hop covers a wide range of topics including the significance of race and ethnicity to the American national identity; how ideas about motherhood affect population policies; African American use of black nationalism ideologies as anti-racist practice; and the relationship between black nationalism, feminism and women in the hip-hop generation.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Patricia Hill Collins is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment and Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice.

REVIEWS

"Patricia Hill Collins provides a road map for the complex journey 'from Black Power to Hip Hop.' She begins with identifying how the legacy of a core racial triangle operates in different political and economic eras to reproduce racial inequalities. Her interrogation and assessment of the challenges that new racism poses for nationalist and feminist thinking can guide our unmasking of this new color blind society."—Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware, and author of Too Much To Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration

"Patricia Hill Collins is one of the most insightful and stimulating voices in contemporary sociology. In these essays, she opens up new insights into contemporary American society and also into broad and enduring issues of sociological theory. She informs us about race and gender, but also through a discussion of race and gender informs us about society and culture more generally."—Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University

"Patricia Hill Collins's steady intellect forges seamless wholes out of seemingly contradictory phenomena, notably black nationalism, feminism, and democracy. With her customary insight, Collins offers both trenchant analysis and strategies of empowerment. A most welcome analysis in these times!"—Nell Irvin Painter, author of Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I. Race, Family, and the U.S. Nation-State
1. Like One of the Family: Race, Ethnicity, and the Paradox of American National Identity
2. Will the ''Real'' Mother Please Stand Up? Race, Class, and American National Family Planning

Part II. Ethnicity, Culture, and Black Nationalist Politics
3. Black Nationalism and African American Ethnicity: Afrocentrism as Civil Religion
4. When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism

Part III. Feminism, Nationalism, and African American Women
5. Why Collective Identity Politics Matter: Feminism, Nationalism, and Black Women's Community Work
6. Is the Personal Still Political? The Women's Movement, Feminism, and Black Women in the Hip-Hop Generation

Notes
References
Index

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