Patricia Hill Collins will present "At the Center of the Storm: Black Men, Violence, and U.S. Society" as part of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity's Spring 2012 Discussion Series. The event takes place on Tuesday, March 27th in Emerson Suites, Campus Center, from 7-9 p.m.
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology within the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her award-winning books include Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990, 2000), which received the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004), which received ASA's 2007 Distinguished Publication Award. Her book Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (8th ed. forthcoming 2012), edited with Margaret Andersen, is a reader widely used in classrooms in over 200 colleges and universities.
Professor Collins has taught at several institutions, held editorial positions with professional journals, lectured widely in the United States and internationally, served in many capacities in professional organizations, and has acted as consultant for a number of community organizations. In 2008, she became the 100th President of the American Sociological Association, the first African American woman elected to this position in the organization's 104-year history. She is currently working on Public Conversations, a collection of speeches and essays from her public sociology career.
This event is free and open to the public; seating may be limited so please arrive early. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact cscre@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1056. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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