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BLACK FEMINIST SCHOLARS
SWS centers and promotes the Black movement/resistance. The following list highlights Black feminist thoughts, work, expertise, and voices. SWS members have provided the following list of Black Scholars to center during this time of protests, attention to systemic racism, and white supremacy.
If you would like to add to this list, please email Barret Katuna, SWS Executive Officer, at swseo.barretkatuna@outlook.com
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List Updated on June 18, 2021
Katie Acosta, https://sociology.gsu.edu/profile/assistant-professor/
Alishia Alexander, https://sociology.illinois.edu/directory/profile/alishia2
Michelle Alexander, https://newjimcrow.com/about-the-author
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in Age of Colorblindness
Brenda J. Allen, https://clas.ucdenver.edu/communication/brenda-j-allen-phd
Shaonta E. Allen, https://shaontathesociologist.com
- The Black Feminist Roots of Scholar-Activism: Lessons from Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
Jessica Ayo Alabi, https://www.asccc.org/category/discipline/sociology
Carol Anderson, https://www.professorcarolanderson.org
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Bloomsbury Adult, 2017)
Alexia Angton, https://soc.iastate.edu/directory/alexia-angton/
Christobel Asiedu, https://liberalarts.latech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/single-entry/name/christobel-asiedu/
Celeste Atkins, https://atkinsc.com
Regina S. Baker, http://www.reginasmallsbaker.com
Brittany Battle, https://www.brittanypbattle.com
- The Slavery, Race, & Memory Project: Virtual Public Conversation: The Roots of Unrest: Addressing Racialized Police Violence – June 30, 2020 from 6-7:30 pm featuring Brittany Battle, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University
Nishaun Battle, http://www.sola.vsu.edu/departments/sociology/people/nishaun-battle.php
- Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia (Routledge, 2019)
Jean Beaman, https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/jean-beaman
Joyce Bell, https://sociology.uchicago.edu/directory/joyce-bell
Josephine Beoku-Betts, https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/wgss/dr.beoku-betts/
Dereca Blackmon, https://inclusiondesign.com/who-we-are/
Freeden Blume Oeur
- Allyship in the Time of Aggrievement: The Case of Black Feminism and the New Black Masculinities, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
- Author of Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools
- Co-editor of Unmasking Masculinities: Men and Society.
Alicia D. Bonaparte, https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/alicia-bonaparte/
- Co-editor, Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth (1st and 2nd editions) Routledge 2014, 2022.
- “Global Health and BFS: Diasporic Research and Interventions Rooted in Advocacy” in Zakiya Luna and Whitney Pirtle’s Black feminist sociology: perspectives and practice. Routledge 2021.
Andrea “Drea” S. Boyles, https://drandreasboyles.com/
- They Still Can’t Figure it Out: One Year After George Floyd’s Murder | Opinion, June 1, 2021
- Tulane race scholar to provide expertise to U.N. panel
- Breonna Taylor’s Case Says It Loud and Clear: Black Lives Don’t Matter, Newsweek, September 24, 2020
https://www.newsweek.com/breonna-taylors-case-says-it-loud-clear-black-lives-dont-matter-opinion-1534158 - Racial Spatial Politics: Policing Black citizens in white spaces and a 21st century uprising – American Ethnologist. Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 150–154 (2020)
- You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (UC Press, 2019)
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Winner of the 2020 Media for a Just Society Award at Evident Change (formerly known as National Council on Crime and Delinquency/NCCD) Click here for more information.
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- Tulane expert honored for book examining post-Ferguson race relations: https://www.wwltv.com/video/news/local/tulane-professor-wins-award-for-book-on-post-ferguson-race-relations/289-f958f549-330f-481c-80cf-be86bd691b5d
- Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for Comfort (UC Press, 2015)
- 6/12/20 – The Case for Police Abolition: How I knew it was coming and addressed it – UC Press Blog
- 6/16/20 – OpEd – Will Mayor Ella Jones be able to turn Ferguson Around?
- 6/15/20 – Blog – How Black women are key in setting this nation straight
- 6/12/20 – Blog – The Case for Police Abolition: How I knew it was coming and addressed it
- 6/7/20 – Interview – Demonstrations against racism: “We are trying to change 400 years of racial discrimination” (may use Google translate)
- 6/2/2020 – Quoted – Why People Loot
Enobong (Anna) Branch, https://diversity.rutgers.edu/about/staff/enobong-anna-branch
- Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line (Polity 2020)
- Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline (Lexington Books 2016)
- Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work (Rutgers University Press 2011)
Mia Brantley, https://chip.sc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Mia-Brantley-CV.pdf
Khiara Bridges, https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/khiara-bridges/
Karida Brown, https://soc.ucla.edu/faculty/karida-l-brown
Kenly Brown, https://www.crg.berkeley.edu/grant-recipient/kenly-brown/
Letisha Brown, https://www.drletishaecbrown.com/
- https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-sociology/faculty/letisha-brown.html
- https://firstandpen.com/author/letisha-brown/ Her freelance work on Black feminism and sport.
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@letisha122
Melissa C. Brown, https://blackfeminisms.com/brown-biography/
- For a Black Feminist Digital Sociology, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
Shantel Buggs, https://shantelgbuggs.com
Nicole Burrowes, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/nb8544
- Building the World We Want to See: A Herstory of Sista II Sista and the Struggle against State and Interpersonal Violence
Renée Byrd, www.persistentconnections.wordpress.com
Charlene Carruthers, https://www.charlenecarruthers.com
- Unapologetic : A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Beacon Press, 2018)
Prudence Carter, https://gse.berkeley.edu/prudence-l-carter
- Carter, Prudence L. and Kevin G. Welner. Eds. (2013). Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give All Children an Even Chance. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Carter, Prudence L. (2012). Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Carter, Prudence L. (2005). Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White. New York: Oxford University Press.
Felicia Casanova, https://sociology.as.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/felicia-cassanova-cv.pdf
Jennifer Casper, https://sociology.missouri.edu/people/casper
Marcia Chatelain, https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RhMmAAK/marcia-chatelain
- Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright, 2020)
- South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 2015)
Jennifer Cobbina, https://www.jennifercobbina.com/books/
- Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Baltimore and Ferguson Matter, and How They Changed America (NYU Press, 2019)
Brittany Cooper, https://www.freshspeakers.com/speakers/brittney-cooper/
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)
- Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017)
Latoya Council, https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/soci/soci_student_display.cfm?Person_ID=1056258
Lisa Covington, https://clas.stage.drupal.uiowa.edu/sociology/people/lisa-covington
Ania Craig, http://humsci.auburn.edu/hdfs/grad/bios/a_craig.php
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kimberle-w-crenshaw
- Police brutality and police overreach/over-policing generally and the #SayHerName movement
Angela Davis, https://www.speakoutnow.org/speaker/davis-angela
Shardé M. Davis, https://comm.uconn.edu/person/sharde-m-davis/
Faith Deckard, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/graduate/gradstudents/profile.php?id=fmd344
LeConté J. Dill, lecontedill.com
Zaire Dinzey Flores, https://latcar.rutgers.edu/people/core-faculty/47-zaire-dinzey-flores
Dre Domingue, https://www.davidson.edu/people/dre-domingue
- Stephanie Y. Evans, Andrea Dominigue, and Tania D. Mitchell (eds.), Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons, SUNY Press, 2019.
Dawn Dow, https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/dow/dawn
- Mothering While Black: The Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood (2019, University of California Press).
Sasha Drummond-Lewis, https://www.umflint.edu/sac/faculty-and-staff
Tracy L. Dumas, https://fisher.osu.edu/people/dumas.35
Marlese Durr, https://liberal-arts.wright.edu/about/profile/marlese-durr
Stephanie Y. Evans, https://cas.gsu.edu/profile/stephanie-y-evans/
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Stephanie Y. Evans, Andrea Dominigue, and Tania D. Mitchell (eds.), Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons, SUNY Press, 2019.
Crystal Fleming,
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/people/faculty/fleming.php
- How to be Less Stupid About Race
Brittany Friedman, https://sociology.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/core-department-faculty/826-friedman-brittany-2
Gloria Gadsden, https://www.socialmomentsjournal.com
Kelly Giles, https://www.umass.edu/sociology/users/kgiles
Carla Goar, https://www.kent.edu/node/carla-goar
Vanessa Gonlin, http://www.vanessagonlin.com/
Jamella Gow, https://migrationinitiative.ucsb.edu/people/jamella-gow
Saida Grundy, https://www.bu.edu/afam/profile/saida-grundy/
Shaquilla Harrigan, https://www.soc.upenn.edu/people/shaquilla-harrigan
Cherise Harris, https://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/cherise-harris/
- The Cosby Cohort: Blessings and Burdens of Growing up Black Middle Class (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)
Adia Harvey Wingfield, https://sociology.wustl.edu/people/adia-harvey-wingfield
- Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy (UC Press, 2019)
Endia Louise Hayes,
- Nothing About Us, Without Us: Reinscribing Black Feminism in Sociology, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
Brittany Hearne, https://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/sociology/people/index/uid/bnhearne/name/Brittany+Nicole+Hearne/
Loren Henderson, https://lorenhenderson77.wixsite.com/mycv
Marcia Hernandez, https://www.pacific.edu/academics/schools-and-colleges/college-of-the-pacific/academics/departments-and-programs/sociology/faculty-directory/marcia-hernandez.html
Jasmine D. Hill, https://www.jasmine-hill.com
Shirley Hill, https://sociology.ku.edu/shirley-hill-0
Eundria Hill-Joseph, https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/5654ddfcb38859138200004b
Patricia Hill Collins, https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/collins/patricia-hill
- Black Feminist Thought (Routledge, 2008)
Erica Hill-Yates, https://twitter.com/ericahillyates?lang=en
Ashley E. Hollingshead,
- Nothing About Us, Without Us: Reinscribing Black Feminism in Sociology, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
bell hooks, http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com
Yasimyn Irizarry, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/yi579
Christina Jackson, https://www.christinarjackson.com
- Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line (Polity 2020)
Adilia James, https://www.endicott.edu/academics/schools/arts-sciences/faculty/a/adilia-james
Maria S. Johnson, Founder & Chairperson, Black Women & Girls Fund
- www.drmariajohnson.com
- www.bwgfund.org.
- #BlackGirlMagic and its Complexities, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
- Johnson is currently completing a book under contract with NYU Press titled Black Daughters, Black Fathers: Understanding Complex Family Relationships
Leslie Kay Jones, https://sociology.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/core-department-faculty/968-jones-leslie-kay
Nikki Jones, https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/nikki-jones
- Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
- The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption (UC Press)
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, https://history.berkeley.edu/stephanie-e-jones-rogers
- They Were Her Property
Jalia L. Joseph
- Exploring the Black Feminist Imagination, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
Karyn Lacy, https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/faculty/krlacy.html
- Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (2007)
Joyce Ladner,
- https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/joyce-ladner-39
- http://mwp.olemiss.edu/dir/ladner_joyce/index.html
Charisse Levchak, https://www2.ccsu.edu/faculty/cclevchak
Krystale Littlejohn, https://www.krystalelittlejohn.com/
Angelica “Jelly” Loblack, https://socy.umd.edu/gradprofile/loblack/angelica
Nancy López, https://sociology.unm.edu/people/faculty%20profile/Nancy%20Lopez.html
Audre Lorde, https://alp.org/about/audre
Zakiya Luna, http://www.zakiyaluna.com
- Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice
- Introduction: Black Feminist Sociology is the Past, Present, and Future of Sociology. Period, Editor in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
Sadiyah Malcolm, https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/current-graduate-students/sadiyah-malcolm.html
Shannon Malone Gonzalez,
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/graduate/gradstudents/profile.php?id=sm59889
- Making It Home: An Intersectional Analysis of the Police Talk
Memory Manda, https://soc.unl.edu/memory-manda
Kris Marsh, https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/marsh/kris
Alexis S. McCurn, https://www.csudh.edu/sociology/faculty/alexismccurn
- The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City (Rutgers, 2018), https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-grind/9780813585055
Maretta McDonald, https://www.lsu.edu/hss/sociology/people/Graduate_Students/Graduate_Student_CVs/mcdonald_cv.pdf
Tressie McMillan Cottom, https://tressiemc.com
- Thick: And Other Essays
Peace Medie, http://www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/people/person/peace-medie/
Tsedale Melaku, https://www.tsedalemelaku.com
- Women in the Workplace and the Unfinished Fight for Equality
- You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism
- The Awakening: The Impact of COVID-19, Racial Upheaval and Political Polarization on Black Women Lawyers
- Be A Better Ally
- Academia Isn’t a Safe Haven for Conversations About Race and Racism
- Why Women and People of Color in Law Still Hear “You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer”
Tania Mitchell, https://www.cehd.umn.edu/olpd/people/tmitchel/
- Stephanie Y. Evans, Andrea Dominigue, and Tania D. Mitchell (eds.), Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons, SUNY Press, 2019.
Allison Monterrosa,
Mignon Moore, https://www.mignonmoore.com
- Family Background and the Meanings of Economic Autonomy for Black Lesbian Women, Chapter in Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
- Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women
Monique Morris, https://www.moniquewmorris.me/
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (The New Press, 2016)
Amaka Okechukwu, http://www.amakaokechukwu.com/main
Ijeoma Oluo, http://www.ijeomaoluo.com
Mary J. Osirim, https://www.brynmawr.edu/people/mary-j-osirim
Mary Patillo, https://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/mary-pattillo.html
Amanda Patrick, https://www.apsu.edu/sociology/sociology-faculty.php
Tracy Owens Patton, https://www.uwyo.edu/cojo/faculty/professors/tracey-patton.html
- Patton, Tracy Owens. 2006. “Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair.” NWSA Journal, 18(2):24-51.
Ruth Peterson, https://sociology.osu.edu/people/peterson.5
Whitney Pirtle, https://www.ucmerced.edu/content/whitney-laster-pirtle
- Editor, Black Feminist Sociology Perspectives and Praxis
- Race & Gender Oppression in the Classroom: The Experiences of Women Faculty of Color with White Male Students, Teaching Sociology, 38(3): 183-196 https://journals.
sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/ 0092055X10370120 - Colleges Must Change to Retain BIPOC Women Faculty. Insider Higher Ed, April 30, 2021. https://www.insidehighered.
com/advice/2021/04/30/retain- bipoc-women-faculty-colleges- must-remove-obstacles-they- face-opinion - The Overlooked Minefield. Inside Higher Ed, April 16, 2021. https://www.insidehighered.
com/advice/2021/04/16/ teaching-issues-can-be-among- biggest-obstacles-retaining- bipoc-women-faculty
Hillary Potter, http://www.hillarypotter.com/
- Intersectionality and Criminology: Disrupting and Revolutionizing Studies of Crime (Routledge, 2015)
Kimala Price, https://womensstudies.sdsu.edu/people/bios/price.htm
Andrea Ritchie, http://invisiblenomorebook.com/about-andrea/
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon Press, 2017)
Candice C. Robinson, https://www.candicecrobinson.com
Zandria F. Robinson, https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q000025AIXeQAO/zandria-robinson
Belinda Robnett, https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4668
Beth Richie, https://clj.uic.edu/profiles/beth-e-richie/
- Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Dorothy Roberts, https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/roberts1/
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty (Random House/Pantheon, 1997, 1999, 2017).
Shantee Rosado, https://www.blxstudies.org/shantee-rosado
Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashleigh-rosette
- Rosette, Ashleigh Shelby, and Tracy L. Dumas. 2007. “THE HAIR DILEMMA: CONFORM TO MAINSTREAM EXPECTATIONS OR EMPHASIZE RACIAL IDENTITY.” Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, 14:407-21.
Loretta Ross, https://www.lorettaross.com/Biography.html
Zakia Salime, https://sociology.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/core-department-faculty/224-salime-zakia
- Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (Minnesota, 2011).
Lacee Satcher, https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wp0/wp-content/uploads/sites/233/2019/12/17151848/LaceeSatcherCV19.pdf
Alyasah A. Sewell, http://sociology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/sewell-alyasah.html
Fumilayo Showers, https://sociology.uconn.edu/person/fumilayo-showers-2/
Chaniqua D. Simpson, https://cdn.chass.ncsu.edu/sites/socant.chass.ncsu.edu/documents/SimpsonCV_05.17.pdf
Jennifer Patrice Sims, https://sites.google.com/uah.edu/jenniferpatricesimsphd/home
Barbara Smith, https://barbarasmithaintgonna.com/about-barbaras-work/
- Police brutality and police overreach/over-policing generally and the #SayHerName movement
Christen Smith, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/faculty/cs23775
- Facing the Dragon: Black Mothering, Sequelae, and Gendered Necropolitics in the Americas
Dwayne Smith, http://sociology.usf.edu/faculty/dsmith/
Chriss Sneed, https://sociology.uconn.edu/person/chriss-sneed/
C. Riley Snorton, https://english.uchicago.edu/c-riley-snorton
Starr Solomon, https://www.kent.edu/sociology/starr-solomon
Kamesha Spates, https://www.kent.edu/node/kamesha-spates
Hortense Spillers, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/hortense-spillers
- “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 203–229. First published in Diacritics, Summer 1987 (https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/hortense_spillers_-_mamas_baby_papas_maybe.pdf)
Kimberly Springer, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S61BeAMAAAAJ&hl=en
Ashley Y. Stone, https://peerstoallies.uic.edu/ashley-y-stone/
Sabrina Strings, https://www.sociology.uci.edu/people/faculty.php
- Fearing the Black Body (NYU Press, 2019) https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/
Taura Taylor, https://sociology.gsu.edu/profile/taura-taylor/
Carieta Thomas, https://soci.ucalgary.ca/profiles/carieta-thomas
Korey Tillman, https://koreytillman.com
LaTonya J. Trotter, https://www.latonyatrotter.com
Aisha A. Upton, www.aishaupton.com
- A major part of Aisha’s research agenda is studying the Black feminist movement.
- Susquehanna University
- Twitter: @AishaUpton
Brandy Wallace, https://sahap.umbc.edu/ftfaculty/person/zw20099/
Kelly Ward, https://www.kellymarieward.com/
Chandra Waring, https://www.uww.edu/cls/race-and-ethnic-studies/meet-our-faculty
Apryl Williams, https://aprylwilliams.com
Doris Y. Wilkinson, https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1243
France Winddance Twine, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oqgnCUwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/france-winddance-twine
Evonnia Woods, https://sociology.missouri.edu/people/woods
Kristine Wright, https://www.lasc.edu/life-lasc/clubs/hip-hop-congress
Patrice Wright, https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/pw5mv
Tashelle Wright, https://publichealth.ucmerced.edu/content/tashelle-wright
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, http://www.keeangataylor.com
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016)
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Haymarket Books, 2018)
Assata Zerai, https://sociology.illinois.edu/directory/profile/azerai