Crystal Marie Fleming (born November 26, 1981) is an American sociologist and author. She is full professor of sociology and Africana studies at Stony Brook University. Fleming is the author/editor of four books about race and white supremacy.
Crystal Marie Fleming | |
|---|---|
 Crystal Marie Fleming (2008) | |
| Born | November 26, 1981 Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College (B.A.) Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Everyday Antilleans in Metropolitan France (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michèle Lamont |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology, Africana studies |
| Sub-discipline | Racism, white supremacy |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University |
Early life and education
editCrystal Marie Fleming was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was raised by her mother in a religious environment and her family belonged to a black Pentecostal church.[1]
Fleming graduated in 2004, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and French from Wellesley College. She completed a senior thesis titled Performing Blackness: Symbolic Boundaries and Aesthetic Distinctions among Spoken Word Poets in Boston.[2][3] She obtained a Master of Arts in sociology in 2007 at Harvard University. At the same institution, Fleming earned a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology in 2011.[2] Her dissertation was titled Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Everyday Antilleans in Metropolitan France. Fleming's doctoral advisor was Michèle Lamont.[4] She won the 2012 Georges Lavau Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association for an English-language dissertation on French politics.[5]
Career
editFleming is Full Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She was previously a visiting professor at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2015.[2] She is the author of two books: Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France and How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide.[6]
Personal life
editFleming identifies as bisexual and queer.[1]
Selected works
edit- Fleming, Crystal Marie (2017). Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781439914090.[7]
- Fleming, Crystal Marie (2018). How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807050781.[8]
- Fleming, Crystal Marie (2021). Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy. Henry Holt and Company (BYR). ISBN 978-1-250-22638-9.
References
edit- ^ a b Fleming, Crystal Marie (February 25, 2015). "#ThisIsLuv: A Black Bisexual Manifesto". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ^ a b c Fleming, Crystal Marie (2016). "Curriculum Vitae: Crystal Marie Fleming" (PDF). Stony Brook University. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 8, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ^ Fleming, Crystal Marie (2004). Performing Blackness: Symbolic Boundaries and Aesthetic Distinctions Among Spoken Word Poets in Boston. Wellesley College.
- ^ Fleming, Crystal Marie (2011). "Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Antillean Migrants in Metropolitan France (1980–2010)". Retrieved November 7, 2018 – via ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
- ^ "Back Matter". French Politics, Culture & Society. 30 (3). 2012. ISSN 1537-6370. JSTOR 42843781.
- ^ "Crystal Marie Fleming on "How to Be Less Stupid About Race"". WJLA. November 7, 2018. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ^ Reviews of Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France:
- Beaman, Jean (August 6, 2018). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 4 (4): 593–594. doi:10.1177/2332649218793649. ISSN 2332-6492. S2CID 165480859.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Matlon, Jordanna (April 25, 2018). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 47 (3): 320–322. doi:10.1177/0094306118767651q. ISSN 0094-3061. S2CID 150018542.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Moutselos, Michalis (2018). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 18 (1): 80–81. doi:10.1111/sena.12267. ISSN 1473-8481.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - McDonogh, G.W., "Review", Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 123
- Beaman, Jean (August 6, 2018). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 4 (4): 593–594. doi:10.1177/2332649218793649. ISSN 2332-6492. S2CID 165480859.
- ^ Reviews of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide:
- "Review", Publishers Weekly
- Tuttle, Kate (October 26, 2018). "Turning despair over 2016 election into a book -". Boston Globe. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- Ganeva, Tana (October 22, 2018). "Here's how to be less stupid about racism in America -- and how to fight it". The Raw Story. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- "Review", Kirkus Reviews
