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Apr 4, 2012 · Patricia Hill Collins, seated, a social theorist whose research and scholarship examine issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nation, will receive an Honorary Doctorate and give the ...
In 2012, a video from the YouTube website titled "Dr. Patricia Hill Collins Delivers 2012 Graduate Commencement Address", Collins gives the commencement address at Arcadia University on Thursday, May 17, 2012, when she received an honorary doctorate. She provides stories of her past from growing up in Philadelphia, her and her parents ...
Patricia Hill Collins, ’69, PhD ’84, is an eminent scholar and Brandeis alumna who has dedicated her career to understanding the intersections of race, gender and class. Collins is the author of seven books, including the seminal "Black Feminist Thought," and is currently a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University ...
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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 reflect...
Collins left Philadelphia in 1965 to attend college at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. There, she majored in sociology, enjoyed intellectual freedom, and reclaimed her voice, thanks to the focus in her department on the sociology of knowledge. This subfield of sociology, which focuses on understanding how knowledg...
In 1986, Collins published her groundbreaking article, “Learning from the Outsider Within,” in "Social Problems". In this essay, she drew from the sociology of knowledge to critique the hierarchies of race, gender, and class that cast her, an African American woman from a working-class background, as an outsider within the academy. She presented in...
Throughout her career, Collins’ work has been framed by a sociology of knowledge approach that recognizes that the creation of knowledge is a social process, framed and validated by social institutions. The intersection of power with knowledge, and how oppression is connected to the marginalization and invalidation of the knowledge of the many by t...
In 2005 Collins joined the University of Maryland’s department of sociology as a Distinguished University Professor, where she currently works with graduate students on issues of race, feminist thought, and social theory. She maintains an active research agenda and continues to write books and articles. Her current work has transcended the borders ...
In 2012, a video from the YouTube website titled "Dr. Patricia Hill Collins Delivers 2012 Graduate Commencement Address", Collins gives the commencement address at Arcadia University on Thursday, May 17, 2012, when she received an honorary doctorate. She provides stories of her past from growing up in Philadelphia, her and her parents ...
Feb 12, 2013 · Evans demands much from intellectual activists by arguing that ordinary, everyday people need truthful ideas that will assist them in their everyday lives. Such truth-telling requires talking, reason, honesty, love, courage, and care. For academics whose horizons have been narrowed to preparing for the next reappointment, promotion, and tenure ...
