Understanding Racism, Transforming University Cultures - Les Back and Professor Patricia Hill Collins in Conversation
Recovering Community is back for a special bonus episode, with sociologist Professor Patricia Hill Collins.
Professor Patricia Hill Collins is in conversation with host Les Back in this episode. This episode was recorded before her inaugural Racial Justice Lecture here at the University of Glasgow on the 14th October 2024. Professor Collins is world renowned for her work on race, class and gender. She is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of Maryland College Park and the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
The University of Glasgow’s Understanding Racism, Transforming University Cultures programme aims to address structural racial inequalities faced by our community and publicly states our commitment to being an anti-racist institution. The lecture was an extraordinary occasion introduced by the Principal, Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, along with scholar activist Professor Satnam Virdee.
Some of the titles of Professor Collins books include Black Feminist Thought; Fighting Words; Black Sexual Politics (2004); From Black Power to Hip Hop (2005); and most recently Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence.
In this episode, Les and Professor Collins discuss her work and in particular her writings on what she calls the ‘new politics of community’ which is an issue very much at the heart of this podcast.
We are working on series three of Recovering Community, so watch this space for further episodes which will be released soon.
Recovering Community is produced by Freya Hellier.