Talk:Patricia Hill Collins

Objectivity Issues

While Collins is clearly noteworthy and this article was right to survive its 2005 deletion vote, the article fails in many places to maintain an objective tone and veers toward the style of a personal essay. There's a fair bit about what she thought about her childhood, and what she was trying to get across in her writing. Improved NPOV could do wonders. Starting with "Participation in Social Activism," the quality takes a nosedive.

• Just one instance of social activism from 2014 is cited, complete with quotes of questionable noteworthiness.
• The section on Collins' influence on sociology is one paragraph long and discusses just one paper—this when she is a former president of the ASA.
• The section on her infuence on other disciplines is, in its entirety, a discussion of a paper published in Iran, a country on which Collins is not expert.
• The section on media representation is a list of five YouTube videos and a quote in the Guardian
• The legacy section starts off with a questionable assertion, that Collins (and presumably not Kimberlé Crenshaw) is the premier figure to whom the origin of intersectionality is attributed. No citation is provided.

Collins is a leading figure, and certainly ranks right up there with Crenshaw in the early history of intersectional theory. If there's a citation putting her at the top, that should be linked. All told, this article on a significant figure in American academic history would better reflect her sigificant stature if it were less in gobsmacked awe of its subject.

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oroonoka (talk • contribs) 11:55, 28 January 2023 (UTC) 

Vote for Deletion

This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 01:21, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

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