Interview with Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Maryland College Park. She is specializing in race, class, gender, and social inequality within the African American community. Her studies opened new questions about the reconceptualization of the ideas of race, class, gender, sexuality and nationalism as interlocking systems of oppression. Thanks to her publications with Sirma Bilge, she discusses the intertwined nature of these social categorizations, their complex web of discrimination and disadvantage in the global society, adopting intersectionality as a critical theory of society.