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Explanation: Patricia Hill Collins is an American sociologist known for her research and theory on the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. In her work on Black Feminist Epistemology, Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde1. Collins characterized the features of “Black feminist epistemology” as “lived experience as a criterion of meaning” and argued that among many black women, personal experience was treated as being more epistemologically valuable than science or theory because it was based on immediate reality