Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948 in Philadelphia ) is an American sociologist . She held the 100th presidency of the American Sociological Association and researches and publishes mainly on the social status of African American women. Your book "Black Feminist Thought" is considered a standard work. Hill Collins is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park .

Career

The daughter of a factory worker and secretary received her bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1969 and her master's degree from Harvard University in 1970 . She then worked as a public school teacher and received her PhD in sociology from Brandeis University in 1984 .

Collins became Professor of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati in 1993 and full Professor of Sociology there in 1996. Since her retirement in 2005 she has taught as a professor at the University of Maryland .

In 2008, she became the first African American woman to serve as president of the American Sociological Association.

Fonts (selection)

• Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment , New York: Routledge, 2000 (first edition 1990)
• Black sexual politics: African Americans, gender, and the new racism , New York: Routledge, 2004
• From Black power to hip hop: racism, nationalism, and feminism , Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006
• Another kind of public education: race, the media, schools, and democratic possibilities , Boston, Mass .: Beacon; Enfield: Publishers Group UK, 2010
• with Sirma Bilge Intersectionality , John Wiley & Sons, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7456-8452-9 .

Web links

• Collins page of the American Sociological Association
• University of Maryland Collins Page
• Literature by and about Patricia Hill Collins in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patricia Hill Collins. (No longer available online.) In: University of Maryland, College Park . February 6, 2018, archived from the original on May 16, 2017 ; accessed on February 6, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.