Venue: AMS Student Nest (2nd Floor)
This event is free and open to the public!
The David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education is delighted to present to you:
Join us for an evening with distinguished visiting professor Emerita Patricia Hill Collins.
The author of ten books including award-winning ‘Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment’ (1990, 2000) and ‘Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism’ (2004), Professor Collins will deliver her lecture “Black Feminism and Anti-Black Racism: Challenges and New Directions” this will be followed by a Q&A where we’ll have the opportunity to collectively explore her thinking in relation to our own enquiries.
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. The author of ten books her award-winning books include Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990, 2000) and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004). Professor Collins has taught at several institutions, held editorial positions with professional journals, lectured widely in the United States and internationally, has acted as consultant for a number of community organizations and served in many capacities in professional organizations. In 2008, she became ASA’s 100th President, the first African American woman elected to this position in the organization’s 104-year history. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory, her most recent book, is scheduled to be published by Duke University Press in 2019.
This event is part of the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education Lecture Series (Faculty of Education) and co-sponsored by The Department of Philosophy, The Department of Political Science, and The Institute for Gender, Race Sexuality and Social Justice
We would like to acknowledge that this event takes place on the traditional, unceded, occupied, and ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.
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