Organization:Cite Black Women
| Formation | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Christen A. Smith |
| Website | citeblackwomencollective.org |
Cite Black Women is a campaign that aims to "rethink the politics of knowledge production" by encouraging the citation of Black women, particularly in academic fields.[1] It was founded in 2017 by Christen A. Smith, an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, after a presenter at a conference she attended had plagiarized from a book she had written.[2] Smith made a t-shirt with the words Cite Black Women and began wearing it to conferences, eventually offering the shirts for sale at a meeting of the National Women's Studies Association and selling out of them within 24 hours. Proceeds from the shirts were donated to the Winnie Mandela School in Salvador, Bahia Brazil.[3] In 2018, Smith started a podcast with the same name. (As of July 2020), she continued to sell the shirts and donate the proceeds.[4]
Organization
Cite Black Women is both a collective, as well as a hashtag campaign #CiteBlackWomen and #CiteBlackWomen Sunday.[3]
Goals
Cite Black Women has five core resolutions:[5][6]
- Read the works of Black women;
- Integrate Black women into the core of your syllabus (in life and in the classroom);
- Acknowledge Black women's intellectual production;
- Make space for Black women to speak;
- Give Black women the space and time to breathe.
The campaign is intended to address the underrepresentation of Black women in academia.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Pagkas, Stella (February 19, 2021). "Cite Black Barnard Faculty Cite-a-Thon calls for representation in the classroom". http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/02/19/cite-black-barnard-faculty-cite-a-thon-calls-for-representation-in-the-classroom/.
- ↑ Williams, Kennedy (2020-05-01). "Podcasts from staff and faculty members help you learn while you listen" (in en-US). https://news.utexas.edu/2020/05/01/podcasts-from-staff-and-faculty-members-help-you-learn-while-you-listen/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "OUR STORY" (in en). https://www.citeblackwomencollective.org/our-story.html.
- ↑ Lewis, Eshe (2020-07-16). "Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil" (in en-US). Wenner‑Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, with University of Chicago Press. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/christen-a-smith-interview/.
- ↑ Smith, Sera (2020-10-28). "Why we should cite Black women" (in en-US). https://www.dailycal.org/2020/10/27/did-you-cite-a-black-woman-today-why-we-should-cite-black-women/.
- ↑ "Cite Black Women" (in en). 2018-03-30. https://www.dclibrary.org/node/59845.
- ↑ "'Cite Black Women' campaign gains momentum" (in en). 2018-01-22. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cite-black-women-campaign-gains-momentum.
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