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outsider-within  

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  • The concept of the outsider-within has been developed most fully by Patricia Hill Collins. Two of Collins's works, Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (1998) and Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990), are considered by many to be classics of feminist theory. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Outsider-within]

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