ABSTRACT
In her pioneering study Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins points out that White masculine definitions of words such as power, activism and resistance ‘fail to capture the meaning of these concepts in Black women's lives’ (Collins, 1990:140). Activism for Black women in western societies, she argues, has taken the form of a struggle for group survival and a struggle for institutional transformation. ‘Education has long served as a powerful symbol for the important connections among self, change, and empowerment in African-American communities’, especially for women (Collins, 1990:141–2, 147ff).
