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Maxine Leeds Craig

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Maxine Leeds Craig is a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Davis (USA).[1]

Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race (2002),[2] which was given an award for "best book on the political history of ethnic and racial minorities in the US" by the American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Her second book, Sorry I Don’t Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move (2013), was awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award of the American Sociological Association’s section on Body and Embodiment.[1]

Publications[edit]

  • Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0195152623 Search this book on ..[3]
  • Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse To Move. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0199845293 Search this book on ..[4]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Faculty". sociology.ucdavis.edu/people/mbcraig. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  2. Smith, Richard Cándida; Wilmot, Nadine (2002–2003). "An oral history with Troy Duster" (PDF). Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.; see in particular pp. 19, 177, 178.
  3. Reviews of Ain't I A Beauty Queen?:
    • Weitz, Rose (March 2003). American Journal of Sociology. 108 (5): 1133–1135. doi:10.1086/379573. JSTOR 10.1086/379573.CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
    • Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara (February 2004). Gender and Society. 18 (1): 145–146. JSTOR 4149378.CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
  4. Reviews of Sorry I Don't Dance:

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