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“These controlling images [stereotypes] are designed to make racism, sexism, poverty, and other forms of social injustice appear to be natural, normal, and inevitable parts of everyday life.”

- From Chapter 4 of Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought

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"Contemporary forms of oppression do not routinely force people to submit. Instead, they manufacture consent for domination so that we lose our ability to question and thus collude in our own subordination."

— Patricia Hill-Collins (via rumagin)

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"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."

— Patricia Hill Collins (via wretchedoftheearth)

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