Black Strategic Mothering and the School “Choice” Marketplace

Speaker: Dr. Riché Barnes
Monday, March 18, 11:20 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Campus Center South ABC Meeting Room
Sponsor: Blackademics Faculty Group and Gender Studies
Lunch Provided

The Blackademics Faculty Group and Gender Studies invite you to talk by Riché J. Daniel Barnes. Dr. Barnes is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the African American Studies Program and graduate faculty in Anthropology and the Center for Sexualities, Gender, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida. Her teaching and research specializations are at the intersection of black feminist theories, work and family policy, and African Diasporic raced, gendered, and classed identity formation. Her book, Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community (Rutgers University Press 2015), in which she developed the conceptual tool, “Black Strategic Mothering,” won the 2017 Distinguished Book Award for the Race, Gender, Class section of the American Sociological Association. 

She will be presenting on her theory of black strategic mothering and how it relates to black women's navigation of school choice.