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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, and a past president of the American Sociological Association . Collins served in 2009 as the 100th president of the ASA – the first African-American woman to hold this position.Collins's work primarily concerns issues involving race, gender, and social inequality within the African-American community. She gained national attention for her book Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. May 1948
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Patricia Hill Collins Quotes

“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. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.”

Patricia Hill Collins

"We don't need another Dr. King" in Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle (2000), p. 908

Death , People , History , Change

“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. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.”

Patricia Hill Collins

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (2000) p. vii

Idea , Change

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