Patricia Hill Collins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Patricia Hill Collins

African-American scholar

Date of Birth: 01-May-1948

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: university teacher, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specialising in race, class and gender.
She is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology 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 Council.
Collins was the 100th president of the ASA and the first African-American woman to hold this position.Collins's work primarily concerns issues involving feminism, gender, and social inequality within the African-American community.
She first came to national attention for her book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, originally published in 1990.