Patricia Hill Collins
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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.
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Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group.
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (2000) p. vii
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero.
"We don't need another Dr. King" in Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle (2000), p. 908
…In the United States, the dominant discourse is shaped by intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation as systems of power.
On how she approaches any research regarding social inequality in “The Representation of African-American Women: An Interview with Patricia
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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. Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association - the first African-American woman to hold this position.
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