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Patricia M. Collins (April 14, 1927 - March 5, 2024) was an American civic leader and politician who served as the mayor of Caribou, Maine from 1981 to 1982. She has chaired numerous local and state boards and organizations, including the Caribou School Board, the Maine Committee for Judicial Responsibility and Disability, Catholic Charities Maine, and the University of Maine Board of Trustees.
Jun 18, 2019 · Patricia Hill was born in Philadelphia in 1948 to Eunice Randolph Hill, a secretary, and Albert Hill, a factory worker and veteran of World War II. She grew up an only child in a working-class family and was educated in the public school system. As a smart child, she often found herself in the uncomfortable position of the de-segregator and ...
Oct 23, 2023 · In her landmark book Black Feminist Thought (1990), Dr. Collins gave voice to the long-ignored intellectual traditions of US Black women. This exploration of race, class, and gender as mutually constructed systems of power helped pave the way for the development of the now widely recognized framework of “intersectionality.”.
Her 2019 book Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory is a landmark in developing the concept and insight into a substantial analytical framework. The new understandings unleashed by Collins’ work have reverberated throughout popular culture, politics, academia, and other hierarchies of power in the US and globally.
Patricia M. Collins. Collins, who was 96, died on March 5, 2024. She served as an active member of the UMaine and University of Maine System community for more than 75 years. Pat Collins traveled from New York to Maine to begin her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1945 at the University of Maine. During her time on campus, she was
Patricia Hill Collins. 1948— Sociologist, educator. Sociologist and scholar Patricia Hill Collins began learning about the complex interactions between class, race, and gender as an African-American girl growing up in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood during the 1950s.
May 3, 2023 · Patricia Hill Collins's long-awaited monograph on intersectionality does something remarkable. It issues an invitation to form a community: to engage with, and thereby transcend the “definitional dilemmas” (to use Collins's own term) in which the field of intersectionality studies has been mired for the past decade, and to reconstitute intersectionality as a “broad-based, collaborative ...
