Award-Winning Author to Speak at UA’s Laible Memorial Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Award-winning author Dr. Patricia Hill Collins will deliver the annual Julie C. Laible Memorial Lecture Oct. 22 at The University of Alabama.

Hill Collins, professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, will promote anti-racist education in “Sharpening Intersectionality’s Critical Edge: Implications for Education” at 6 p.m. in Graves Hall, room 118.

A brown-bag lunch session will be held prior to the lecture from noon to 2:30 p.m. in Graves, room 214. There, Hill Collins will discuss  “the connections between race and class and challenge color-blind approaches in what some might argue to be a post-racial society with the election of Barack Obama” from her book, “Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities.”

Hill Collins has written eight books, mostly addressing race and ethnicity. Her latest works include “The Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies” and “Intellectual Activism.”

The Julie C. Laible Memorial Lecture Series on anti-racist scholarship, education and social activism honors the memory of Julie C. Laible, who was an assistant professor in the College of Education before passing away unexpectedly in 1999. Laible served at UA for four years and was known for her community involvement through such programs as the Community Anti-Racial Group, which she helped found, and as an Aid to Inmate Mothers.