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Despite Long-standing Claims By Elites That Blacks, Women, Latinos, And Other Similarly Derogated Groups In The United States Remain Incapable Of Producing The Type Of Interpretive, Analytical Thought That Is Labeled Theory In The West, Powerful Knowledges Of Resistance That Toppled Former Social Structures Of Social Inequality Repudiate This View. Members Of These Groups Do In Fact Theorize, And Our Critical Social Theory Has Been Central To Our Political Empowerment And Search For Justice.

Social Conditions That Spur Large Numbers Of People Into Action Are Ignored In Favor Of A Hollywood Version Of History Focusing On One Conquering Hero. Since A Movement For Social Change Is Embodied In Its Leader, Death Of The Leader Means Death Of The Movement.

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.

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.

That Which Commands Admiration In The White Woman Only Hastens The Degradation Of The Female Slave.