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I am a professor and interdisciplinary social scientist whose research and teaching examine evidence-based responses to enduring societal questions—most notably, what it has meant to be racialized-as-black and non-black (intentionally lowercase) in the U.S., France, Europe, and beyond. I explore both the consequences of this longstanding process of racialization and the ways individuals and communities have resisted—and refused—those consequences.
African and African American Studies
My publications include both articles and books (monographs & edited volumes):
#You Know You're Black in France When...: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness (MIT Press)
--Selected as a 2023 Choice Pick by the Association of College and Research Libraries (a division of the American Library Association)
--Shortlisted for the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award
Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness (co-edited, Duke University Press)
Black Europe and the African Diaspora (co-edited, University of Illinois Press)
Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion (Indiana University Press)
My current book project, Real to Reel: Racialized Representations and French Banlieue Cinéma, takes up the above questions as they unfold in French cinema and France's film industry.
Selected Articles and Other Publications
"Why are French Authorities acknowledging racial profiling but doing nothing about it?" Contexts (Sociology for the Public), January 12, 2024
"Race," in Keywords for African American Studies (New York: New York University Press, 2018): 163-167
"Au Nègre Joyeux: Everyday Anti-blackness Guised as Public Art," Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art (2016): 52-58
"Review of Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe" by Michael McEachrane (ed), The Black Scholar 46, no. 1 (2016): 77-80
"Racial Profiling and the 'French Exception.'" French Cultural Studies, 24, no. 2 (2013): 231-242
"Euzhan Palcy: Creative Dissent, Artistic Reckoning—An Interview by Trica Danielle Keaton," Palimpsest (2012): 116-134
"Racial Profiling: France and the U.S." (part 1 and part 2), Racism Review, 2012
"The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy," Feminist Wire, 2011
"The Politics of Race-Blindness: (Anti)blackness and Category Blindness in Contemporary France," Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 7, no.1 (2010): 103-131
"'Black (American) Paris' and the 'Other France': The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity," In Black Europe and the African Diaspora, eds. D. Clark Hine, T. Keaton, and S. Small, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009)
"Black Paris/Paris Noir," in Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, (Westport, CT: ABC-CLIO Press/Greenwood Publishing, 2008): 187-188
"Review of Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image by Bennetta Jules-Rosette," Journal of American Studies, 42, no. 2 (2008): 2
"Arrogant Assimilationism: National Identity Politics and African Origin Muslim Girls in the Other France," Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36, no. 4 (2005): 405-423
"Un Regard Afro-américain sur une 'Cité' de la Banlieue Parisienne : Les Courtillières," Agone: Sociologie, Histoire & Politique, 29-30 (2003) : 121-134
"Review of We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World by Manthia Diawara," African Studies Review, 46, no 3 (2003): 175-176
"Muslim Girls and the 'Other France': An Examination of Identity Construction," Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 5, no. 1 (1999): 47-64