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Patricia Hill Collins

Summary

Patricia Hill Collins is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, known for Black Feminist Thought (1990), which systematically developed intersectionality and standpoint epistemology from a Black feminist perspective.

Core Contribution

Systematized Black feminist thought and intersectionality; developed the matrix of domination framework for analyzing overlapping systems of oppression.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • intersectionality
  • Black feminism
  • matrix of domination
  • standpoint epistemology

Notable Works & Achievements

Black Feminist Thought

Fighting Words

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Historical Influences

Kimberlé Crenshawbell hooks Black feminist tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Black feminism sociology standpoint epistemology

Contemporaries & Peers

bell hooks Kimberlé Crenshaw

Minds Influenced

Intersectionality scholarship feminist sociologyBlack studies

Intellectual Posterity

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