


Collins's intentional centering of Black women's voices in order to theorize Black women's lived experiences offered a departure from feminist analyses rooted in the ostensibly unmarked category of "woman" that tended to obscure racial, ethnic, and cultural differences, and from Black cultural studies frameworks that subordinated gender to race.

Patricia Hill Collins's Black Feminist Thought (1990) helped to announce and participated in a watershed moment in Black feminist theory, one that ushered in what might be understood as the era of intersectionality within women's studies.
