Patricia Hill Collins Toward A New Vision

With adopted critical reading and writing skills from this semester, I found pure ease in interpreting Patricia Hill Collins' essay, "Toward a New Vision." Hill's message became quite obvious early on, starting with the quote, "While many of have little difficulty assessing our own victimization within some major system of oppression, whether it be by race, social class, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age or gender, we typically fail to see how our thoughts and actions uphold someone else's subordination" (Collins). There is clear flaw in subordinating an individual; for man is equal and should be treated as though they are. A person treated as a lower rank or position is clear degradation, and in no way of this word should justifying this action be allowed. Patricia Hill Collins goes on to discuss the meaning of our individual being and how this meaning correlates with our epidemics. She says, "Each of us must come to terms with the multiple ways in which race, class and gender as categories of analysis frame our individual biographies" (Collins). This analysis brings to light the
Collins adds, "Like the privileged, members of subordinate groups must also work toward replacing judgments by category with new ways of thinking and acting. Refusing to do so stifles prospects for effective coalition and social change" (Collins). The social change cannot be stifled, for a new generation must be better than this one. One should learn to love a neighbor as they love themselves. There is no man who can pick the worthy and the worthless. This planet has been given to man so that they can populate the earth and grow as a unit. When the society takes censuses, we do not collect the population as individual parts, we collect the unity of habitants. This common, but easily forgotten routine alone shows you that as a whole we are valued, not as individual