{"tema_id":"1181","string":"Patricia Hill Collins","created":"2019-04-22 06:51:16","code":null,"modified":"2021-05-07 09:40:10","notes":[{"@type":"Historical note","@lang":"en-US","@value":"\nCollins (n\u00e9e Hill) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948. She obtained her bachelor\u2019s degree in sociology in 1969 from Brandeis University, and a master\u2019s degree in social sciences education in 1970 from Harvard University. From 1970 until 1976, she taught in the public schools of the Roxbury section of Boston. Then, she was appointed Director of the Africana Center at Tufts University, a post she held from 1976 until 1980. In 1984, she earned her PhD in sociology from Brandeis. Collins is currently Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland College Park.\nCollins\u2019s published work has focused on the intersectionality of race, class, and gender. In 1990, she published her landmark study,\u00a0Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment\u00a0(see below). In this book, she looked at the social, psychological, and political issues of the disempowerment of black women in a wide variety ways, including through the lenses of revolutionary Marxist and feminist theory (drawing on the work of Angela Y. Davis), fiction (Alice Walker), and poetry (Audre Lorde). Her delineation of the epistemology of the way an individual\u2019s total social identity is constructed by overlapping (intersecting) partial identities was one of the earliest interventions in the discourse which would become known as \u201ccritical race theory.\u201d She has placed particular emphasis on the linguistic dimension of such social constructions, noting that:\n\nChallenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.[1]\n\nOther books Collins has written have broached the possibility of reconceptualizing public education (Another Kind of Public Education) and reflected upon the vital role of public intellectuals in articulating the language in which new social and political possibilities become thinkable (On Intellectual Activism).\nCollins has published widely, in the\u00a0Journal of Speculative Philosophy,\u00a0Qualitative Sociology,\u00a0Ethnic and Racial Studies,\u00a0American Sociological Review,\u00a0Signs,\u00a0Sociological Theory,\u00a0Social Problems, and\u00a0Black Scholar, among others, as well as in several edited volumes. Her published work has been very widely translated, anthologized, and otherwise reprinted. She is the recipient of numerous grants, awards, board memberships, invitations to give lectures and keynote addresses, and honorary degrees. During the 2008\u20132009 academic year, Collins served as President of the American Sociological Association.\nPublications:\u00a0\n\nBlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment(Routledge, 1990; rev. ed., 2000)\nRace, Class and Gender: An Anthology\u00a0(Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1992; numerous editions)\nFighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 1998)\nBlack Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism\u00a0(Routledge, 2004)\nFrom Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism\u00a0(Temple University Press, 2006)\nAnother Kind of Public Education: Race, the Media, Schools, and Democratic Possibilities(Beacon Press, 2009)\nThe SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies\u00a0(SAGE Publications, 2010)\nOn Intellectual Activism(Temple University Press, 2012)\nIntersectionality\u00a0(Polity Press, 2016)\n\nSource:\u00a0https:\/\/thebestschools.org\/features\/black-scholars-you-should-know\/ "}]}