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Patricia Hill Collins
Professor Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation.
Her books include Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment; Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism; Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice; and From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism,

She has published articles in professional journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Signs, Sociological Theory, Hypatia, Social Problems, Ethnicities, and Black
Scholar, as well as in numerous edited volumes. She has recently finished editing, with Margaret Andersen, the seventh edition of Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, a reader widely used in classrooms in over 200 colleges and
universities. Her newest book, Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools,
the Media, and Democratic Possibilities is currently in production and will be


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