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Duchess Harris is an African American academic, author, and legal scholar.[1] She is Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College in Minnesota, specializing in Black Feminism,[2][3][4] U.S. Law, and African American political movements. Her book, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama,[5][6] was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2009, and with Bruce Baum she co-edited Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity,[7] published by Duke University Press in 2009. In 2011 she received her J.D. from the William Mitchell College of Law.

Early life

Harris was born in Virginia.[8]

Education and Career

When she was fourteen, Harris received a full scholarship to attend Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. After graduation, she was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected student body president. Her activism was reported in Wayne Glasker’s, Black Students in the Ivory Tower: African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990. In 1991, Harris earned her Bachelor of Arts in American History and Afro-American Studies, and in 1997 she earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. That same year she was named one of "Thirty Young Leaders of the Future" by Ebony Magazine.[9] She joined the faculty at Macalester College in 1998.

She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School under the direction of john a. powell, was a policy fellow for the Hubert. H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and served on the Shirley Chisholm Presidential Accountability Commission in 2010.[10] Her writing and commentary[11] have appeared in Litigation News, The Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, and Race-Talk. While at law school, she co-founded the William Mitchell Law Raza Journal, an online, interactive scholarly publication on the issues of race and the law.[citation needed] Her scholarship has been supported through a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship.[citation needed]

Harris lectures and speaks on the subjects of law and feminism.[12]

Bibliography

Books and Edited Volumes

  • 2009. Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama (Second ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0230112552[13]
  • 2009. Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity. Duke University Press, ed. with Bruce Baum. ISBN 0822344475.

Contributions to Books and Essays

  • 2004. "To Die for the People's Temple: The Appropriation of Huey Newton by Jim Jones" with Adam John Waterman. In Rebecca Moore, Anthony B. Pinn, and Mary R. Sawyer (eds.) Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America. pp. 103–122. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253216559.
  • 2001. "From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Activism from 1960 to 1980". In Bettye Collier-Thomas, V.P. Franklin (eds.) Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. pp. 280–305. New York University Press. ISBN 0814716032.[14][15]
  • 2001. "Nineteenth Cenury Black Feminist Writing and Organizing as a Humanist Act". In Anthony B. Pinn (ed.) By These Hands: A Documentary History of African-American Humanism. pp. 55–70. New York University Press. ISBN 0814766722.

Journals and Online Articles

  • 2012. "Rights Law and The Valley Swim Club". William Mitchell Law Raza Journal, 3.1.
  • 2012. "Response to Black Women and Fat". The Huffington Post.
  • 2011. "Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help." JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African American Women Studies.
  • 2010. "hElena Kagan's Cultural Competence Questioned". The Huffington Post.
  • 2010. "Book Review: This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity." Journal of American History, Vol. 97 No. 3.
  • 2010. "[ Orders Highlight Need for Diversity in Appointing Class Counsel]". Litigation News.
  • 2010. The State of Black Women in Politics Under the First Black President"]. The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue, 8:3.
  • 2007. Review of Black Feminist Voices in Politics by Evelyn Simian. National Political Science Review, 11.
  • 2006. "Review of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer," Journal of African American History, 91.2: 240–242.

References

  1. ^ Dr. Boyce Spotlight: Duchess Harris – Mother, Wife, Attorney, Extraordinary Scholar | Your Black World
  2. ^ "Reigniting Black Feminist Power". Review by Christine E. Hutchins. On the Issues Magazine.
  3. ^ Duchess Harris: No tweeting allowed, classroom discussions stay off the record | Twin Cities Daily Planet
  4. ^ Francis, Delma J. (June 11, 2012). "Black feminist politics". Twin Cities Daily Planet.
  5. ^ Weaver, Joshua R. (July 11, 2011). "The Root Recommends: 'Black Feminist Politics From Kennedy to Obama'". The Root.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History. OUP USA. 7 June 2012. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-19-974336-0.
  7. ^ Mott, Shani (2010). "Book Review: Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity". The Journal of American History. 97 (3). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Mistaken for your child's grandmother". CNN. By Tananarive Due, September 16, 2011
  9. ^ Norment, Lynn (December 1997). "30 Young Leaders of the Future". Ebony Magazine.
  10. ^ Thompson, Krissah (September 17, 2010). "Black scholars to debate how to hold Obama 'accountable'". The Washington Post.
  11. ^ Page, Susan (July 14, 2008). "Scope wide at NAACP meetings". USA Today.
  12. ^ [http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/185508615/history-makes-hiring-household-help-a-complex-choice " History Makes Hiring Household Help A Complex Choice"]. North Country Public Radio by Karen Grigsby Bates
  13. ^ Julie A. Gallagher (2012). Black Women and Politics in New York City. University of Illinois Press. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-0-252-03696-5.
  14. ^ Bettye Collier-Thomas; Vincent P. Franklin (2001). Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-black Power Movement. NYU Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 978-0-8147-1603-8.
  15. ^ Melissa V. Harris-Perry (20 September 2011). Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Yale University Press. pp. 318–. ISBN 978-0-300-16541-8.
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