"Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud": Organizing Since Katrina

Diane Harriford
Becky Thompson

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.200801.006

Keywords: Social Theory, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Critique, Digital Society, Sociology, Scholarly Journal, Peer reviewed journal, Ben Agger, Tim Luke

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Author Biographies

Diane Harriford

Diane Harriford is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Vassar College. She teaches courses on gender and sexuality, inequality, the social construction of race, and black intellectual history. Her current research interests focus on women organizing in the aftermath of Katrina and black women's sexuality. She is the co-author, with Becky Thompson, of When the Center is on Fire: Passionate Social Theory for Our Times (University of Texas Press, 2008).

Becky Thompson

Becky Thompson is the author of A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2001); Mothering without a Compass: White Mother's Love, Black Son's Courage (University of Minnesota Press, 2000); and A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems (University of Minnesota Press, 1994). Her co-edited volume, Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Prose and Poetry on HIV From the Black Diaspora (with Randall Horton and Michael Harper, Third World Press, 2007) has been adapted into a play that premiered in New York City in 2008. Her poetry appears in Harvard Review, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, We Begin Here: For Lebanon and Palestine, Illuminations, Amandla, The Teacher's Voice, and In Women's Hands. Currently, Becky is Professor of Sociology at Simmons College in Boston.

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2019-05-29

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