SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought, Brandeis University
8 May 2016
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A biographical sketch of patricia hill collins. By the time she was a teenager she was already acutely aware of how race, gender and class all intersected to affect her life: university education. Tried to regain her voice by attending university. Graduated with a b. a from brandeis university (1969) Earned an m. a in social science education from harvard university (1970) Spent several years working as a teacher (1970-1975) She started working as a director of the african-american centre at tufts. Started to shift direction a bit, in regards to her interests. While she was working at tufts university she met and married roger. Started a family and she went back to school. Earned a phd from brandeis university (1984: university career. In 1982 she and her husband moved to cincinnati because he had gotten a job there. She became a professor in the department of african-american studies at the. Ended up serving the chair there from 1999-2002.
