Layla Brown
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies
Refereed Journal Articles
“The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World is Possible,” From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities, Special Issue Surviving the Pandemic: Reflections on Intimacy, Care, Inequalities, Resistance and Transnational Solidarity (November 2020)
“Seein’ It for Wearin’ It: The Continued Relevance of Auto-ethnography for Black Feminist Anthropologists,” Taboo: The Journal of Culture & Education, Special Issue Breaking the Silence: Telling Our Stories as an Act of Resistance (September 2019)
Public Scholarship
“Afro-Venezuelans: Building Solidarity with Afro-Descended People in the Americas.” Global African Worker (blog). February 18, 2020. https://globalafricanworker.com/
“Afro-Venezuelan Struggles for Constitutional Recognition.” Global African Worker (blog). September 29, 2019. https://globalafricanworker.com/
“(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and Guaidó’s Attempted Coup.” Black Perspectives (blog). July 9, 2019. https://www.aaihs.org/black-perspectives/
African American Intellectual Historical Society (AAIHS) | American Anthropological Association (AAA) Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA) Association for the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora (ASWAD) Nacional Council for Black Studies (NCBS) National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA)
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Education
PhD, Cultural Anthropology
Duke University, 2016 -
Contact
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Address
225R Renaissance Park
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Ma 02115
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Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism
WMNS/POLS/SOCL 3100
Introduces key issues, themes, and debates in feminist transnational theory, practice, and activism in contemporary contexts and how it has changed under socioeconomic, political, and cultural processes of globalization. Offers students an opportunity to discuss the impact of globalization, neoliberalism, and state and intimate violence on gendered politics and relations and to contend with the politics of difference, to debate its challenges, and to imagine possible futures for transnational gender justice.
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Explores the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of African American and Africana studies. Provides an introductory overview of the field and offers an opportunity to identify areas for more specific focus.