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Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Patricia Hill Collins. Biography. Professor Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. Her first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge), published in 1990, with a revised tenth year ...
Jun 18, 2019 · Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an active American sociologist known for her research and theory that sits at the intersection of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nationality. She served in 2009 as the 100th president of the American Sociological Association (ASA) — the first African American woman elected to this position.
Oct 25, 2023 · Sociologist Patricia Hills Collins won the $1 million Berggruen Philosophy Prize for her decades of work.
The American sociologist Patricia Hill Collins, in her book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990), proposed a form of standpoint theory that emphasized the perspective of African American women.
Patricia Hill Collins is principally concerned with the relationships among empowerment, self-definition, and knowledge; and she is obviously concerned with black women: it is the oppression with which she is most intimately familiar.
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Patricia Hill Collins is the 100th president of the ASA and the first African American woman to hold this office. Her election is one of the many “firsts” that we are witnessing in this new millennium, as some of the barriers that have existed for women and people of color have lifted.
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