Welcome back to Recovering Community.

In a special bonus episode, Les Back meet world-renowned sociologist Professor Patricia Hill Collins, 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. Professor Collins visited Glasgow on 14 October, 2024, to give the University's inaugural Racial Justice Lecture.

This was the first event in a new series of public lectures which has been established through the University’s Understanding Racism, Transforming University Cultures programme. This initiative aims to address structural racial inequalities faced by our community and publicly states our commitment to being an anti-racist institution. It 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.

This interview was recorded before her lecture and Les and Prof 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're working on season 3 of Recovering Community, look out for more episodes soon.

Presented by Professor Les Back, produced by Freya Hellier with support from the staff of the School of Social and Political Sciences.