Karida Brown
Karida Brown | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Thesis | Before they were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky's Coal Camp Blacks (2017) |
Karida L. Brown is a professor of sociology at Emory University. She is known for her work on Black history and culture, with a focus on history and function of racial colonial capitalism. She was the first director of Racial Equity & Action for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Education
[edit]Brown received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Temple University in 2004. She received a Master Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, an M.A.from Brown University in 2012, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 2016.[1]
Career
[edit]Brown’s first job out of college was as an underwriter at American International Group and then she went on to work at Zurich North America.[2] After earning her Ph.D., Brown joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles as an assistant professor. She was promoted to full professor and received tenure in 2021. In 2022 she move to Emory University where she is a professor of sociology.
In 2020 Brown was named the director of racial equity and action for the Los Angeles Lakers.[3] She held the position until the beginning of 2023.[4]
Brown is the author of three books, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia,[5] The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Racialize Modernity and the Global Color Line,[6] and The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families,[7] which won the 2024 NAACP Image award for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction.[8]
Brown served on the board of The Obama Presidency Oral History Project.[3]
Selected publications
[edit]- Brown, Karida L (2016). "The 'hidden injuries' of school desegregation: Cultural trauma and transforming African American identities". American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 4 (2): 196–220. doi:10.1057/ajcs.2016.4. ISSN 2049-7113.
- Brown, Karida L. (2018) Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia. University of North Carolina Press
- Itzigsohn, José and Karida L. Brown. (2020) The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. NYU Press.
- Brown, Karida L. and Luna Vincent, (2022) “American Pragmatism and the Dilemma of the Negro”, in Isaac Reed, Neil Gross, and Christopher Winship eds. Agency, Inquiry, and Democracy: The New Pragmatist Social Science. Columbia University Press
References
[edit]- ^ "Karida L. Brown". Emory University. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
- ^ "Karida L. Brown CV" (PDF). Emory University. August 2023.
- ^ a b Turner, Broderick (2020-06-21). "Lakers hire director of racial equity and action". The Tribune. pp. B1, [1]. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
- ^ Amos, Rodd A (27 March 2025). "Women's History Month: Karida L. Brown, NAACP Award-winning Sociologist". Los Angeles Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. pp. A2. ProQuest 3187253467.
- ^ Reviews of Gone Home
- Pearson, Joseph W. (2020). "Review of Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 118 (1): 200–203. ISSN 0023-0243. JSTOR 48679503.
- Grundy, Saida (2019). Brown, Karida (ed.). "race in appalachia". Contexts. 18 (4): 48–49. ISSN 1536-5042. JSTOR 26853728.
- Obermiller, Phillip J. (2019). "Review of Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia". Journal of Appalachian Studies. 25 (2): 254–255. doi:10.5406/jappastud.25.2.0254. ISSN 1082-7161. JSTOR 10.5406/jappastud.25.2.0254.
- ^ Reviews of The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
- Dos Santos, Karolina (2021). Itzigsohn, José; Brown, Karida (eds.). "A Review of José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown's, The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois". The CLR James Journal. 27 (1/2): 377–389. ISSN 2167-4256. JSTOR 27170796.
- Loughran, Kevin (2021). "Review of The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line". Social Forces. 99 (4): 1–3. ISSN 0037-7732. JSTOR 27042975.
- Henry, Paget (2021). Itzigsohn, José; Brown, Karida L. (eds.). "Du Bois, Classical and Contemporary Sociology: A Review of José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown's The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois". The CLR James Journal. 27 (1/2): 391–398. ISSN 2167-4256. JSTOR 27170797.
- ^ Daniel, Christopher A. (2023-10-23). "Love letter: 'We're just shepards of tradition'". The Atlanta Constitution. pp. C1, [2]. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
- ^ Tinoco, Patrick Hipes,Armando (2024-03-17). "NAACP Image Awards Winners List: 'The Color Purple' Tops Night As Usher Takes Entertainer Of The Year Trophy". Deadline. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
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External links
[edit]- Karida Brown publications indexed by Google Scholar
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