Dána-Ain Davis's guest appearances

Dána-Ain Davis

Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire

CUNY Graduate Center

Evoking History

Polly Thistlethwaite

Sameena Mulla

Porchia Moore

Justin Brown

Jesse Prinz

Ashley Dawson

Paul Krugman

Imani Perry

Amy Lam

Elizabeth Wayne

Meena Alexander

Michael Carter

Anthony Romero

Alex Marino

Robert Smith

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Centuries of Black feminist intellectuals have demonstrated how knowledge production is always deeply political, revealing whose labor and lives we value. Publicly citing and generously engaging with the contributions that others have made to our thinking is a crucial way we remake the world. In episode 135 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla, the three co-editors of the recent ground-breaking special issue of Feminist Anthropology, which focuses on the Cite Black Women movement that honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production. The Ideas on Fire team has been privileged to copyedit the Feminist Anthropology journal from its inception, and the Cite Black Women special issue is a superb illustration of the powerful political and ethical transformations this journal and the Cite Black Women movement bring to academic publishing and everyday life. In the conversation, Christen, Dána, Sameena, and Cathy discuss the pleasures and challenges of overhauling academic publishing workflows and norms so that they can embody an intersectional, transnational feminist praxis. They also chat about what it means to honor our intellectual and communal forbearers, which this special issue does in the form of a tribute to the late Dr. Leith Mullings from colleagues, friends, comrades, and former students whose intellectual and personal lives were forever changed through her lifelong commitment to racial, economic, and gender justice. And finally, they close out the conversation with reflections on why making room for marginalized people to speak, write, and publish is a key way we all think and live knowledge production otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/135-smith-davis-mulla

Centuries of Black feminist intellectuals have demonstrated how knowledge production is always deeply political, revealing whose labor and lives we value. Publicly citing and generously engaging with the contributions that others have made to our thinking is a crucial way we remake the world. In episode 135 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla, the three co-editors of the recent ground-breaking special issue of Feminist Anthropology, which focuses on the Cite Black Women movement that honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production. The Ideas on Fire team has been privileged to copyedit the Feminist Anthropology journal from its inception, and the Cite Black Women special issue is a superb illustration of the powerful political and ethical transformations this journal and the Cite Black Women movement bring to academic publishing and everyday life. In the conversation, Christen, Dána, Sameena, and Cathy discuss the pleasures and challenges of overhauling academic publishing workflows and norms so that they can embody an intersectional, transnational feminist praxis. They also chat about what it means to honor our intellectual and communal forbearers, which this special issue does in the form of a tribute to the late Dr. Leith Mullings from colleagues, friends, comrades, and former students whose intellectual and personal lives were forever changed through her lifelong commitment to racial, economic, and gender justice. And finally, they close out the conversation with reflections on why making room for marginalized people to speak, write, and publish is a key way we all think and live knowledge production otherwise. Transcript and show notes: <a href="https://ideasonfire.net/135-smith-davis-mulla" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideasonfire.net/135-smith-davis-mulla</a>

Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla on Cite Black Women

This week I am pleased to be joined by the co-editors of a new anthropology journal, Feminist Anthropology, which seeks to bring heterogeneous conceptions of feminism into critical scholarly conversation across a variety of disciplines and genealogies. They discuss the creation of the journal as well as the behind the scenes efforts that make a journal possible. They also give us a sneak preview of issue two coming out soon. Dr. Dána-Ain Davis is a Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at the City University of New York (Queens College and the Graduate Center). Her work on reproductive justice is at the forefront of feminist interrogations about the biopolitics of race and class.  Her work on reproductive justice is at the forefront of feminist interrogations about the biopolitics of race and class. She is the author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (New York University Press, 2019), and her impressive publication record is a model of the intersection of feminist ethnography and activism. Dr. Sameena Mulla is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. She is the author of The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (New York University Press, 2014) and the recipient of the 2017 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology honoring her dedication to public anthropology.

This week I am pleased to be joined by the co-editors of a new anthropology journal, Feminist Anthropology, which seeks to bring heterogeneous conceptions of feminism into critical scholarly conversation across a variety of disciplines and genealogies. They discuss the creation of the journal as well as the behind the scenes efforts that make a journal possible. They also give us a sneak preview of issue two coming out soon. Dr. Dána-Ain Davis is a Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at the City University of New York (Queens College and the Graduate Center). Her work on reproductive justice is at the forefront of feminist interrogations about the biopolitics of race and class.  Her work on reproductive justice is at the forefront of feminist interrogations about the biopolitics of race and class. She is the author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (New York University Press, 2019), and her impressive publication record is a model of the intersection of feminist ethnography and activism. Dr. Sameena Mulla is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. She is the author of The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (New York University Press, 2014) and the recipient of the 2017 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology honoring her dedication to public anthropology.

Introducing the "Feminist Anthropology" journal with co-editors Dr. Dána-Ain Davis and Dr. Sameena Mulla

Dána-Ain Davis is a professor of urban studies and anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center and the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society. Davis focuses on black feminist ethnography and the dynamics of race and racism. She discusses her latest book, "Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy and Premature Birth" (NYU Press, 2019), which asserts that black women suffer from medical racism resulting in the highest maternal morbidity rates in America and their babies suffer the highest rates of prematurity, yielding lifelong consequences. This conversation and her book break new ground on how persistent racism has unique and devastating effects upon black women and birthing in America. Davis received her Ph.D. in anthropology from The Graduate Center.

Dána-Ain Davis on The Thought Project - Episode 79