Collins in the 1990s Made an Argument for Black Feminist

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.