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Melissa Harris-Lacewell
My work explores the intersection of race and politics, especially African American political thought. In Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, I explore political ideas that African Americans evolve in the course of ordinary conversations and daily interactions in public places like barbershops, churches, and popular culture, using a combination of statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods. Public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level in contexts such as these. My next book, For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough, is an examination of the connections between shame, sadness, and strength in African American women's politics. Visit WebsitePublications Barbershops, Bibles and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
Princeton University Press What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. Using a combination of statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods in an effort to reveal how public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level, the author talks to black college students about wide ranging topics from the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television. |
