Patricia Hill Collins | |
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| Born | Patricia Hill May 1, 1948 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Roger Collins (m. 1977) |
| Children | 1 (Valerie Collins) |
| Awards | Berggruen Prize (2023) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Brandeis University (BA, PhD) Harvard University (MA) |
| Thesis | Race, Gender and Labor Market Structure (1983) |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | gender studies |
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| Institutions | |
| Notable works | Black Feminist Thought (1990) |
| Notable ideas | Intersectionality, matrix of domination, controlling images |
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.[1] She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association – the first African-American woman to hold this position.[2]
Collins's work primarily concerns issues involving race, gender, and social inequality within the African-American community. She gained national attention for her book Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990.[3]
- ^ "Patricia Hill Collins: Distinguished University Professor". University of Maryland Department of Sociology. Retrieved November 9, 2015.[dead link]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
higginbothamwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Collins, Patricia. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge.