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The Cite Black Women podcast is a periodic program with a simple message: Cite Black Women. We have been producing knowledge since we blessed this earth. We theorize, we innovate, we revolutionize the world. We do not need mediators. We do not need interpreters. It’s time to disrupt the canon. It’s time to upturn the erasures of history. It’s time to give credit where credit is due. This bi-weekly podcast features reflections and conversations about the politics and praxis of acknowledging and centering Black women’s ideas and intellectual contributions inside and outside of the academy through citation. Episodes feature conversations with Black women inside and outside of the academy who are actively engaged in radical citation as praxis, quotes and reflections on Black women’s writing, conversations on weathering the storm of citational politics in the academy, decolonizing syllabi and more. For more information about our project follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @citeblackwomen and access our website at citeblackwomencollective.org #CiteBlackWomen

Producer and Host: Christen Smith
Co-producer: Michaela Machicote
Audio Engineer: Lydia Fortuna

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Latest Episodes:

S1E11: The Church of Black Feminist Thought Dec 20, 2019

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A conversation between Cite Black Women Collective member Imani Wadud and the two co-coveners of The Church of Black Feminist Thought: Miyuki Baker and Ra Malika Imhotep. This graduate student spotlight explores The Church of Black Feminist Thought's powerful vision, praxis, and embodied citation. For more info on The Church of Black Feminist Thought check out their site: https://www.blackfeministstudy.org

S1E10: Dr. Vilna Treitler on Trauma, Resilience, Memoir and Artistic Vision Sep 08, 2019

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At the American Sociological Meeting 2019, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Vilna Treitler. In this conversation, she discusses her experiences with trauma and resilience, mentorship, her work as a visual artist and her newest project: her memoir. [*Cover Photo: Vilna Treitler Self Portrait] Vilna Bashi Treitler is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, a sociologist, and an artist. Her scholarship theorizes about international migration, race and ethnicity and the dynamics of hierarchical socioeconomic structures, and she has earned distinctions for expertise in qualitative methods. Bashi Treitler is the author of The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions, a comparative historical analysis of US ethnic groups’ racialization and the antiblackness it produces, and Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World, a study of the help immigrants get from the transnational aid networks they create for themselves. She is also editor of the book Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption, on the racialization of children made available domestically and internationally by displacement and misfortune, and a monograph issue of Current Sociology entitled Dynamics of Inequality in a Global Perspective. She has served as Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society, and as Vice Chair of the UN NGO Committee on the Elimination of Racism, Afrophobia, and Colorism. Her art centers on oil painting and glasswork, and she cares deeply about social justice and human rights, so she moves in and out of activism as much as her other obligations allow.

S1E9 - Centering and Celebrating Black Women in Sociology Aug 20, 2019

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This episode features the recorded audio from the panel Cite Black Women: Centering and Celebrating Black Women in Sociology, that took place at the American Sociological Association Meeting in 2019: What started out as a small idea on twitter turned out to be a mini-movement in Philly. On the Saturday of 2018 ASA conference, scores of sociologists were seen donning t-shirts adorned only with simple writing #CITEBLACKWOMEN and the message was clear. It was a call out to cite black women as a tool to fight the intellectual and positional erasure of black women and their merits in the academy. This panel seeks to ensure that the 2018 moment might transition to a larger movement that centers and celebrates black women sociologists. Questions the panelist will address include: Who belongs in the cannon of black women sociologists and who are the contemporary innovators? Who is even included (or who is excluded) when we say, black women? What guides our gatekeeping practices in publishing and how can we make them more inclusive and equitable? What might we lose if we don’t listen to black women today? How might we make this symbolic gesture of #citeblackwomen into something more praxis oriented? Beyond citing black women, how can we further support black women in our discipline and the academy? Panelists (in speaking order): (Organizer) Dr. Whitney N L Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. https://whitneylpirtle.com Dr. Christen Smith, founder of Cite Black Women. and Associate Profesor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.afro-paradise.com Dr. Crystal Marie Fleming, Associate Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. http://www.crystalfleming.com Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is digital sociologist, professor, writer and columnist. She is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. https://tressiemc.com Dr. Zakiya Luna is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of California Santa Bárbara. http://www.zakiyaluna.com

S1E8: Conversation with Professor Michelle Duster Jul 17, 2019

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This week's episode of the Cite Black Women podcast is in commemoration of Ida B. Well's birthday (07/16/1862). Cite Black Women Collective member Michaela Machicote speaks with Professor Michelle Duster, scholar, community advocate, and the paternal great granddaughter of Ida B. Wells. In this episode we discuss Duster's scholarship, her commitment to memorializing Wells in Chicago, and her career trajectory. You can find her work at: MLDwrites.com, Musewrite.com, and Twitter @MichelleDuster

S1E7 Conversation with Dr. Ashley Farmer May 09, 2019

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Ashley Farmer is a historian of black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas- Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, is the first comprehensive study of black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition. Dr. Farmer's scholarship has appeared in numerous venues including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History. Her research has also been featured in several popular outlets including Vibe, NPR, and The Chronicle Review. Farmer earned her BA from Spelman College, an MA in History and a PhD in African American Studies from Harvard University.

S1E6 Pt. 2: A Candid Dialogue About Citational Politics and Black Women's Knowledge @UC Berkeley Apr 14, 2019

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On Friday February 22, 2019, the Black Graduate Students Association in collaboration with the LUTA initiative at the University of California Berkeley held a special Cite Black Women event alongside the ANTI-BLACK STATE VIOLENCE ACROSS THE AMERICAS symposium that occurred on campus at the same time. This Cite Black Women event, organized by Caleb Dawson in collaboration with Ayana Flewellen, Derrika Hunt, Malika Imhotep and Regan Patterson, brought together dozens of people from the campus community and featured a candid dialogue about citational politics and Black women’s knowledge. In addition, special guest Andreia Beatriz dos Santos, the co-founder of the Winnie Mandela School in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (our t-shirt sales proceeds go to this school) was also in attendance. This candid and vibrant conversation represents the next generation of the Cite Black Women initiative - young scholars talking about the ways that citational practices influence their graduate school experiences and beyond. Enjoy.

S1E6-Pt. 1: A Candid Dialogue About Citational Politics and Black Women's Knowledge...UC BERKELEY Apr 01, 2019

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On Friday February 22, 2019, the Black Graduate Students Association in collaboration with the LUTA initiative at the University of California Berkeley held a special Cite Black Women event alongside the ANTI-BLACK STATE VIOLENCE ACROSS THE AMERICAS symposium that occurred on campus at the same time. This Cite Black Women event, organized by Caleb Dawson in collaboration with Ayana Flewellen, Derrika Hunt, Malika Imhotep and Regan Patterson, brought together dozens of people from the campus community and featured a candid dialogue about citational politics and Black women’s knowledge. In addition, special guest Andreia Beatriz dos Santos, the co-founder of the Winnie Mandela School in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (our t-shirt sales proceeds go to this school) was also in attendance. This candid and vibrant conversation represents the next generation of the Cite Black Women initiative - young scholars talking about the ways that citational practices influence their graduate school experiences and beyond. Enjoy.

Season 1, Episode 5 "Dr. Daina Ramey Berry: Slavery, Commodification and Black Women's Erasure" Feb 24, 2019

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In this last episode for Black History Month 2019, Cite Black Women founder Christen Smith interviews historian Daina Ramey Berry, the author of five books on gender and slavery in the United States. In this conversation we talk about the powerful and reflective work of writing about our collective past, the relationship between the commodification of Black women during slavery and the politics of citational erasure and the importance of reading our history and mentoring for Black women. Dr. Daina Ramey Berry is a specialist on the history of gender and slavery in the United States and Black women’s history. She is the award winning author and editor of five books and several scholarly articles. Her recent book, The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to the Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Beacon, 2017) has been awarded three book awards including the 2018 Hamilton Book Prize from the University Coop for the best book among UT Austin faculty; the 2018 Best Book Prize from the Society for the History of the Early American Republic (SHEAR); and the Phyllis Wheatley Award for Scholarly Research from the Sons and Daughters of the US Middle Passage. Berry’s book was also a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. In addition to her written work, Dr. Berry has received teaching awards from every university she’s taught. Recently she received the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award at UT Austin, an honor reserved for 8 faculty members across campus. Prof. Berry has received prestigious fellowships for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the American Council of Learned Societies; the American Association of University Women and the Ford Foundation. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has been featured by major news outlets from around the country. She is currently finishing a co-authored book with historian Kali Gross, A Black Women's History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2020), creating an online resource on slavery for K-12 educators.

Season 1, Episode 4: "Loving Black Women’s Work"- Drs. Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Erica Williams Feb 14, 2019

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In this special Valentine's Day/Black History Month Episode of the Cite Black Women podcast, we feature a conversation between collective member Dr. Erica Williams and the world renowned Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Listen to them discuss their #love for Black women's work, their passion for writing, the importance of friendship in the academy and collaborative research, and why Cite Black Women is a project that we need right now. Enjoy. Dr. ERICA LORRAINE WILLIAMS is Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology department at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Africana Studies from New York University. She is the author of Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements (2013), which won the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize in 2011. She is also a co-editor of The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology, along with Ira Harrison and Deborah Johnson-Simon(University of Illinois Press, 2018). She is Contributing Editor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies (Sociology: Brazil section), and has published in Feminist Studies, Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography,the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbook on Gender: Love, Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (2015), Policing Pleasure: Global Reflections on Sex Work and Public Policy(2011); and Taking Risks: Feminist Stories of Social Justice Research in the Americas(2014). She is currently working on a project on Afro-Brazilian feminist activism in Bahia, Brazil. Dr. BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL is founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College, adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies and past President of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). At the age of sixteen, Dr. Guy-Sheftall entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary education. After graduating with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English, and then went on to Atlanta University to pursue a master’s degree in English. Her thesis was entitled, “Faulkner’s Treatment of Women in His Major Novels.” A year later Dr. Guy-Sheftall began her first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1971 she returned to her alma mater, Spelman College, and joined the English Department. Dr. Guy-Sheftall has a long history of researching and writing about African American Women’s intellectual contributions. She co-edited the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature, with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith in 1979. In 1983 she became founding editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women which was devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent, which was published from 1983-1996. In 1991 she published her dissertation Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920, and of course in 1995 she published her groundbreaking anthology, Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought.

Season 1, Episode 3: “Transnationalism, Anti-Imperialism & Citation with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry" Jan 21, 2019

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In this Martin Luther King Day special podcast, we honor the legacy of Ella baker with a discussion of Black women’s radical activism, citational politics and transnationalism. The conversation begins with a brief introduction on Ella Baker and the visionary leadership of the Black women who surrounded Dr. King. We then move into an interview that host Christen Smith conducted with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry (Brown University) in November 2018. Keisha Khan Perry is a feminist anthropologist and political activist whose research focuses on urban social movements against the violence of forced displacement. She is the author of the prize-winning book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, an ethnographic study of black women’s activism for housing and land rights in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador. With an emphasis on the United States, Jamaica, and Brazil, she continues to write on issues of black land ownership and loss and the related gendered racial logics of black dispossession in the African diaspora. She recently served on the Latin American Studies Association delegation to investigate the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

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