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American sociologist Patrician Hill Collins currently holds the title of University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She previously was a professor of the University of Cincinnati (where she was also head of the Department of African-American Studies). Collins also holds the distinction of being the 100th president of the American Sociological Association, the first African-American woman to do so. Collins completed her BA in sociology at Brandeis University in 1965, her MA in social science education at Harvard in 1970, and her PhD at Brandeis in 1984.

Collins is known for her work in the intersection of factors such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and national origin affect our perceptions of selves and others, as well as opportunities and barriers, and approach better known as intersectionality. In particular, Collins has placed a great deal of focus on how these various factors affect the status and lives of Black people in America. Though Collins did not coin the term “intersectionality” (that can be traced to Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of our most influential figures in law), her work has done a great deal to advance the idea as a critical tool, and explore how it can be implemented to better understand social issues and inequity.

Popular works from Collins include Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism, From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism, On Intellectual Activism, and more recently, Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory.

For her work, Collins has received numerous awards and honors, including the Jessie Bernard Award of the ASA, the Distinguished Publication Award from the ASA, and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, as well as a handful of honorary doctorates.

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According to Wikipedia, Patricia Hill Collins 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. 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 . Collins was the 100th president of the ASA and the first African-American woman to hold this position.

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Patricia Hill Collins's Published Works

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Published Papers

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1999) (6584)
Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought (1986) (2687)
Black Feminist Thought (2020) (1201)
It's All In the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation (1998) (1158)
Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas (2015) (1150)
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought (1989) (953)
Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (2000) (930)
Race, class, and gender : an anthology (1995) (692)
Gender, Black Feminism, and Black Political Economy (2000) (544)
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (2019) (431)
Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory. (1992) (363)
Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection (2016) (359)
Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood (2016) (335)
Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Where's the Power? (1997) (314)
What's in a Name?: Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond (1996) (247)
Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation: Some Implications for Black Family Studies (1998) (192)
The tie that binds: race, gender and US violence (2019) (145)
The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships (2021) (140)
The New Politics of Community (2010) (139)
Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination From (2017) (132)
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (2006) (130)
On violence, intersectionality and transversal politics (2017) (130)
Aprendendo com a outsider within: a significação sociológica do pensamento feminista negro (2016) (127)
Reflections on the Outsider Within (1999) (123)
Like one of the family: race, ethnicity, and the paradox of US national identity (2001) (114)
Black Women and Motherhood (2005) (97)
Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought (2007) (95)
What’s Going On? Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Postmodernism (2002) (95)
Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: Intersectionality and American Pragmatism in Dialogue (2012) (91)
Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images (2002) (90)
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities (2009) (78)
Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology (1997) (70)
On Intellectual Activism (2012) (68)
Transforming the Inner Circle: Dorothy Smith's Challenge to Sociological Theory (1992) (62)
The Difference That Power Makes: Intersectionality and Participatory Democracy (2017) (62)
The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies (2010) (57)
New Commodities, New Consumers (2006) (55)
Se perdeu na tradução? Feminismo negro, interseccionalidade e política emancipatória (2017) (55)
The Politics of Black Feminist Thought (2002) (54)
A Comparison of Two Works on Black Family Life (1989) (54)
Black Feminist Thought as Oppositional Knowledge (2016) (51)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (2008) (50)
Piecing Together a Genealogical Puzzle. Intersectionality and American Pragmatism (2011) (49)
Truth and method : Feminist standpoint theory revisited. Comments and author's reply (1997) (48)
Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: (2012) (34)
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. Ruth FrankenbergBlack Popular Culture. Gina Dent , Michele Wallace (1995) (33)
Intersectionality and Epistemic Injustice (2017) (33)
A Telling Di erence: Dominance, Strength, and Black Masculinities (2006) (30)
Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism (2001) (30)
Black Feminist Epistemology (2002) (30)
Looking Back, Moving Ahead (2012) (28)
Defining Black Feminist Thought (2020) (26)
Truth-Telling and Intellectual Activism (2013) (25)
Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class by (2011) (24)
No guarantees: Symposium on Black Feminist Thought (2015) (22)
The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood (2016) (19)
Black Public Intellectuals: From du Bois to the Present (2005) (19)
Reply to Commentaries: Black Sexual Politics Revisited (2008) (18)
Issues for the Twenty-first Century (2010) (18)
SYMPOSIUM (1995) (16)
Shortest paths : variational problems (1964) (15)
Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist Thought (2002) (15)
Science, critical race theory and colour-blindness. (2015) (15)
Simone de Beauvoir, Women's Oppression and Existential Freedom (2017) (14)
Work, Family, and Black Women’s Oppression (2002) (13)
Just Another American Story? The First Black First Family (2012) (12)
Du Bois's contested legacy (2016) (11)
Poverty as Race, Power and Wealth (2000) (11)
GET YOUR FREAK ON: Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity (2004) (11)
The racial threat. (2006) (11)
The Power of Self-Definition (2002) (10)
Doing Research in Public Housing: Implementation Issues from Philadelphia's 11th Street Corridor Community Policing Program (1999) (10)
The scale of nature (1969) (10)
ASSUME THE POSITION: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence (2004) (9)
On Book Exhibits and New Complexities: Reflections on Sociology as Science (1998) (9)
Perspectivity and the Activist Potential of the Sociology* Classroom (1986) (8)
Prisons for our bodies, closets for our minds (2019) (8)
The emerging theory and pedagogy of black women’s studies (1986) (8)
O que é um nome? Mulherismo, Feminismo Negro e além disso* (2017) (8)
Introduction: Situating Race and Ethnic Studies (2009) (8)
BOOTY CALL: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity (2004) (7)
Feminist and Gender theories (2010) (7)
toward a new vision (2018) (6)
An inclusive curriculum : race, class, and gender in sociological instruction (1987) (6)
Black Women and Motherhood [1991] (1995) (6)
Black Feminist Thought, 30th Anniversary Edition (2022) (5)
Getting Off to a Good Start: The First Class in Black Family Studies. (1986) (5)
Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups (review) (2000) (5)
THE PAST IS EVER PRESENT : Recognizing the New Racism (2004) (5)
The Afro-American Work/Family Nexus: An Exploratory Analysis. (1986) (5)
An Interview with Patricia Hill Collins (2015) (4)
Going Public (2019) (4)
Pensamento feminista negro e estudos da tradução: Entrevista com Patrícia Hill Collins (2019) (4)
Shifting the Center: (2021) (3)
Critical Interventions in Western Social Theory: Reflections on Power and Southern Theory (2013) (3)
VERY NECESSARY: Redefining Black Gender Ideology (2004) (3)
Toward a Politics of Empowerment (2002) (3)
Patricia Hill Collins : Intersecting Oppressions (2006) (3)
An Entirely Different World? Challenges for the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (2005) (3)
Designing Subsidized Health Coverage Programs to Attract Enrollment: A Review of the Literature and a Synthesis of Stakeholder Views. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research (2008) (3)
Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry (2019) (2)
REPLY (1992) (2)
Collins, Patricia Hill (2020) (2)
Sociology after the Crisis.@@@Visions of the Sociological Tradition. (1996) (2)
Black Feminist Thought and Translation Studies: interview with Patrícia Hill Collins (2019) (2)
Proust, Time, and Beckett's Happy Days (1974) (2)
WHY BLACK SEXUAL POLITICS (2004) (1)
Pauli Murray’s journey toward social justice (2018) (1)
Perspectivity and the Activist Potential of the Sociology Classroom (1986) (1)
Keep Your Mind on the Prize... (1994) (1)
Emerging Intersections—Building Knowledge and Transforming Institutions (2019) (1)
An Examination of Racialized Assumptions in Antirape Discourse (2003) (1)
Between camps/against race. Author's reply (2002) (1)
Why Race, Class, and Gender Matter (2018) (1)
Freedom Now! 1968 as a Turning Point for Black American Student Activism (2009) (1)
The Black Scholar Reader's Forum: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism and Racial Consciousness (1993) (1)
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights: Black nationalism and African American ethnicity: the case of Afrocentrism as civil religion (2004) (1)
NO STORYBOOK ROMANCE: How Race and Gender Matter (2004) (1)
Interview with Patricia Hill Collins on Critical Thinking, Intersectionality and Educational: Key Objectives for Critical Articulation on Inclusive Education. (2019) (1)
Women in Hawai'i: Sites, Identities, and Voices (1998) (1)
Sobre tradução e ativismo intelectual (2019) (1)
Book Review: Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave (2006) (1)
AFTERWORD: THE POWER OF A FREE MIND (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Teen Mothers — Citizens or Dependents?By Ruth Horowitz. University of Chicago Press, 1995. 280 pp (1996) (0)
Sociology of Knowledge (1981) (0)
Violence and intersecting power relations (2021) (0)
AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRICIA HILL COLLINS: (2020) (0)
INTERSECTIONALITY, EPISTEMIC OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRÍCIA HILL COLLINS (2021) (0)
Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family (2021) (0)
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. bell hooks , Cornel WestSegregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism. Nancie Caraway (1994) (0)
AN INTERVIEW WITH (2021) (0)
WHY WE CAN’T WAIT : Black Sexual Politics and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS (2004) (0)
Hodgkin's disease progress and problems. (1976) (0)
Book Review: A Foot in Each World: Essays and Articles (1990) (0)
Book Review: Cynthia Burack.HEALING IDENTITIES: BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT AND THE POLITICS OF GROUPS. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. (2005) (0)
Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought By Michael Hanchard Oxford University Press, 2006. 324 pages. $35 cloth (2008) (0)
Kids and Race: Working It out (1989) (0)
The Politics of Theory (2022) (0)
On Our Own Terms (1999) (0)
Reflections on the Outsider Within (1999) (0)
INTRODUCTION: NO TURNING BACK (2004) (0)
Book Review:The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge. Dorothy E. Smith (1991) (0)
Race class and gender : Andersen, Collins, 5th edition (2007) (0)
Critical race theory (2021) (0)
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (1990) (0)
Book Review Symposium: Zygmunt Bauman, What Use is Sociology? Conversations with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester (2015) (0)
“Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection” (2020) (0)
Just Another American Story? The First Black First Family (2012) (0)
Book reviews (1986) (0)
Violence as a Saturated Site of Intersecting Power Relations (2018) (0)
Early Concepts and Terminology (2020) (0)
Controlling Images (2019) (0)
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women. Edited by Mia Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. (2017) (0)
Intersectionality, Black Youth and Political Activism (2020) (0)
Black Feminist Sociology (2021) (0)
Leadership Interview with Patricia Hill Collins (2015) (0)
Images of Black Women in Contemporary America (2011) (0)
Black Women and Wellness (2022) (0)
Review Symposium (2002) (0)
Reflections on Class and Social Inequality: Sociology and Intersectionality in Dialogue (2021) (0)
What is “Critical” about Critical Racial Theory? (2011) (0)
Racetalk: Racism Hiding in Plain Sight (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (1993) (0)
ASSUME THE POSITION: THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE : The Changing Contours (2004) (0)
We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (review) (2009) (0)
The New Politics of Community Revisited (2020) (0)
Book reviews (1986) (0)
A diferença que o poder faz: interseccionalidade e democracia participativa (2022) (0)
Como alguém da família: raça, etnia e o paradoxo da identidade nacional norte-americana (2007) (0)

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