8:26 a.m., Sept. 8, 2010----Noted author and sociologist Patricia Hill Collins will speak on the topic “When Black Power Meets Colorblind Racism: The Changing Contours of Black Identity Politics” during a presentation at 5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 30, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.

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Collins is the Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland College Park and also the Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnatti.

Collins has published a number of award-winning books, including Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism.

She is co-author, with Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Sociology at UD, of Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology.

Her recent publications include Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities, and the SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies, edited with John Solomos.

The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Black American Studies, is free and open to the public.