Race, Class, and Gender: Intersections and Inequalities

Margaret L. Andersen (B.A., Georgia State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emerita at the University of Delaware. Her books have had a far-reaching impact and include "Moving From the Margins: Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism," co-edited with Maxine Baca Zinn; "Getting Smart About Race: An American Conversation"; "Race in Society: The Enduring American Dilemma," 2nd Edition; "Thinking About Women," 11th Edition; the best-selling anthology, "Race, Class and Gender," published in its 11th edition; "Living Art: This Life of African American Art Collector Paul R. Jones" and "On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection." Andersen is an emeritus member and former Chair of the National Advisory Board for Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, past Vice President of the American Sociological Association and past President of the Eastern Sociological Society. She served in several administrative positions at the University of Delaware, including as Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity; Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and as founding director of the President’s Diversity Initiative. She has received numerous awards, including two teaching awards from the University of Delaware, the Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award for career contributions and the American Sociological Association’s Jessie Bernard Award, given for expanding the boundaries of sociology to include women. The University of Delaware granted her an honorary doctorate in recognition of her national prominence in scholarship, teaching and service.

Patricia Hill Collins is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of African American Studies and Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including ON INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM (Temple University, 2013); ANOTHER KIND OF PUBLIC EDUCATION: RACE, SCHOOLS, THE MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC POSSIBILITIES (Beacon, 2009); FROM BLACK POWER TO HIP HOP: RACISM, NATIONALISM AND FEMINISM (Temple University, 2006); BLACK SEXUAL POLITICS: AFRICAN AMERICANS, GENDER AND THE NEW RACISM (Routledge, 2004), which won the Distinguished Publication Award from the American Sociological Association; FIGHTING WORDS (University of Minnesota, 1998) and BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT: KNOWLEDGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF EMPOWERMENT (Routledge, 1990, 2000), which won the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award and the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Dr. Hill Collins' most recent books include INTERSECTIONALITY: KEY CONCEPTS (Polity, 2016) with Sirma Bilge and NOT JUST IDEAS: INTERSECTIONALITY AS CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY (Duke, 2019). She earned her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brandeis University and her MAT from Harvard University.