Patricia Hill-Collins

Patricia Hill-Collins

Publications

Black Feminist Thought

Education/Occupation

Intellectual Activism

• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge)
• Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, 8th ed. (2013), edited with Margaret Andersen
• Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Routledge, 2004)
• Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (University of Minnesota Press, 1998)
• From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Temple University Press 2005)
• Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities (Beacon Press, 2009)
• Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies, edited with John Solomos (Sage, 2010)
• On Intellectual Activism (Temple University Press, 2012).
• Intersectionality ( 2016)

Black feminist thought consists of ideas produced by Black women that clarify a standpoint of and for Black women.

Its produced by Black women and discloses their experiences and perspectives in the greater society.

Education:

Ph.D. in Sociology--Brandeis University, 1984

M.A.T. in Social Science Education--Harvard University, 1970

B.A. in Sociology--Brandeis University, 1969

Collins wants to preserve the intellectual traditions of the past and contributions of Black woman today.

Collins notes that it is important to discover reinterpret and analyze ideas of a subgroups within American Black women

Occupation:

By appointment Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Sociology Professor at the University of Cincinnati

Acheivements

Black women as agents of Knowledge

DuQuesne University. Pittsburgh, PA. Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letter, 2014.

Arcadia College. Philadelphia, PA. Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, 2012.

Harvard Graduate School of Education. Alumni of Color Conference, Alumni Achievement Award , 2011. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. New York, NY.

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, 2009.

Scholarly Awards for Black Feminist Thought, first edition:

1. American Sociological Association, Jessie Bernard Award for significant scholarship in the area of gender, 1993.

2. Society for the Study of Social Problems, C. Wright Mills Award, 1991.

3. Association for Women in Psychology, distinguished publication award, 1991.

4. Association of Black Women Historians, Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, 1991.

University of Cincinnati. Faculty of the Year Award

Within Black women's communities thought is validated and produced with reference to a particular set of historical, material, and epistemological conditions.

African-American women who adhere to the idea that claims about Black women must be substantiated by Black women's sense of our own experiences and who anchor our knowledge claims in an Afrocentric feminist epistemology have produced a rich tradition of Black feminist thought.

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