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
"We don't need another Dr. King" in Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle (2000), p. 908
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (2000) p. vii
