PATRICIA HILL COLLINS’S ON INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM: The Expansion of Our Field of Perspective

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Publication Title

The Future of American Higher Education: How Today’s Public Intellectuals Frame the Debate

Abstract

Patricia Hill Collins is an intellectual giant in the field of sociology and Africana studies. Patricia Hill Collins was born on May 1, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In considering the impact of Collins’s work, the authors both spent some time reflecting on own experiences with her writing and how it has influenced the reader. For many, graduate training resembles a shell game—they look under one shell for the public sociology prize that they anticipated; yet when they pick up the shell, nothing is there. Collins writes, “Stated differently, new power relations predicated on token inclusion need an array of visible difference at the top to legitimate the continuation of business as usual at the bottom”. Existing social problems—whether school performance, poverty, HIV, voter apathy, the gendered contours of the new racism, or other issues the people care deeply about—are responsive to their thoughts and actions.

Department

Government and Sociology

First Page

227

Last Page

237

DOI

10.4324/9781003447818-20

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