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Maxine Leeds Craig

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] 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.[3]

She was chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class for 2009–2010.[4]

Publications

  • Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0195152623.[5]
  • Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse To Move. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0199845293.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Maxine Craig". People. UC Davis Sociology. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  2. [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. [3]
    "Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award". American Sociological Association. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  4. [4]
    "Prior Officers". Section on Race, Gender, and Class. American Sociological Association. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  5. [5]
    Reviews of Ain't I A Beauty Queen?:
  6. [6]
    Reviews of Sorry I Don't Dance:


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