Biography
Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati, and a past President of the American Sociological Association Council. Collins was the 100th president of the ASA and the first African-American woman to hold this position.
Collins's work primarily concerns issues involving feminism and gender within the African-American community. She first came to national attention for her book *Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment*, originally published in 1990.
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Collins's work primarily concerns issues involving feminism and gender within the African-American community. She first came to national attention for her book *Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment*, originally published in 1990.
**Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hill_Collins">Wikipedia</a>
Books by Patricia Hill Collins
Lethal Intersections
Lethal Intersections
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Pensée féministe noire
On intellectual activism
The Sage Handbook Of Race And Ethnic Studies
Another kind of public education
Emerging Intersections
From Black power to hip hop
The sexual politics of black w
The sexual politics of black womanhood
Black Feminist Thought
Toward a new vision
Toward a new vision
On lynchings