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  1. 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.

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  2. 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 ...

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  4. 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.

  5. 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.”.

  6. Oct 25, 2023 · Patricia Hill Collins was awarded the 2023 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture Janel Lee. Ideas. By Janell Ross. October 25, 2023 10:52 AM EDT. Janell Ross is the senior correspondent on ...

  7. Feb 17, 2017 · Patricia Hill Collins. February 17, 2017. Patricia Hill Collins is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland and former President of the American Sociological Association. A leading US social theorist, she is famous for developing the related ideas of “multiple oppressions,” “intersectionality,” and the ...

  8. 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.