Patricia Hill Collins

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Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) 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. Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association – 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.