Collins in the 1990s Made an Argument for Black Feminist

question 3

Essay

Collins in the 1990s made an argument for Black feminist writers and scholars who already/always engaged in straddling two worlds and two cultures-theirs and mainstream's-and thereby producing literature reflective of subjugated knowledge. She cited June Jordan, bell hooks, and Zora Neale Hurston as three acclaimed Black women writers whose writing praxis that is implicit of intersectionality has decentered white, male dominant discourses with their own voicings. For this short writing assignment, explain the cultural value of Black women's participation in epistemological knowledge formation that provokes debates on truth as relative or absolute.

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Definitions:

Scientific Method

A method of procedure consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

Empirical Data

Information obtained through observation or experimentation, providing evidence that can be analyzed to support or refute hypotheses and theories.

Social Life

The ways in which individuals interact and form relationships within society, influenced by cultural, economic, and social factors.

Hawthorne Effect

A specific example of reactivity, in which the desired effect is the result not of the independent variable but of the research itself.