Assistant Professor education: PhD, Duke University phone: 573-884-9694 email: lindseytr@missouri.edu
Dr. Treva Lindsey is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Black Studies Program and has a graduate teaching appointment in the Department of History. She received her Ph.D. in History and a Graduate Certificate in African and African American Studies from Duke University in 2010. Her research and teaching interests include black female expressive culture, African American women's history, critical race and gender theory, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, and sexual politics.
She is currently completing her first monograph, Re-Imagining Public Culture: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation's Capital. Honing in on the intellectual and cultural strivings of African American women communities in New Negro era Washington, the monograph uncovers an urban landscape in which African American women sought to configure themselves as authorial subjects. By entering into “public” cultures, many New Negro women challenged racial, gender, and sexual ideologies and norms that relegated African American women to subordinate political, social, and cultural statuses. Through exploring the contours of the lives of New Negro women in Washington, she unearths a new perspective on how African American women navigated the Jim Crow era. Furthermore, Re-Imagining Public Culture reveals the significance of Washington, D.C. and the African American women who inhabited this city to African American freedom and equality struggles of the early twentieth century.
At the core of her scholarship is historical and contemporary African American women's expressive culture. Dr. Lindsey researches, presents, and publishes on topics ranging from skin bleaching practices among African American women in the early twentieth century to explorations of hip hop soul as a unique space for African American women's storytelling. In her more recent research, Dr. Lindsey investigates digital feminism and how African American women use new and social media as dynamic expressive sites.
Selected Publications
“Climbing the Hilltop: In Search of a New Negro Womanhood Ethos at Howard University,” in Escape From New York: The “Harlem Renaissance” Reconsidered, eds. Davarian Baldwin and Minkah Makalani, University of Minnesota Press, (In Press, forthcoming Fall 2013)
“Complicated Crossroads: Black Feminisms, Sex Positivism, and Popular Culture,” African and Black Diaspora: Special Issue; Feminism and the Black Diaspora, (In Press, forthcoming Spring 2013)
“If You Look In My Life: Love, Hip Hop Soul and Contemporary African American Womanhood,” Hip Hop and the Literary: A Special Issue of African American Review, (In Press, Spring 2013)
“‘One Time For My Girls’: African American Girlhood, Empowerment, and Popular Visual Culture,” Journal of African American Studies, (Online, May 2012)
“Black No More: Skin Bleaching and the Emergence of New Negro Womanhood,” The Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 4: No. 4, pp. 96-115) Special Issue; Global White Supremacy and Skin Bleaching in Africa and Her Diaspora, June 2011.
Courses Taught
Gender, Hip Hop, and Politics of Representation
Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Black Feminist Thought: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
From Laguna Beach to the Jersey Shore: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Reality Television
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