CONTRIBUTOR:

Oneka LaBennett

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Africana Studies

INSTITUTION:

Cornell University

BIOGRAPHY:

Oneka LaBennett is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, where she is a member of the Field in the Department of Anthropology and in the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She is also affiliated with Cornell's Latino Studies and American Studies Programs. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2002, and her B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Wesleyan University in 1994. Her research and teaching interests include popular youth culture; race, gender and consumption; urban anthropology; transnationalism and African Diaspora; and Caribbean migration. LaBennett is the author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn (New York University Press, 2011), and co-editor of Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2012). Previously LaBennett served as Director of American Studies and Research Director of the Bronx African American History Project at Fordham University. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Global Black Feminisms: Writing Art, Reading Hip Hop, and Hearing Fiction.