University of California, Riverside
Post-Doc, Women's Studies
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow
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I am currently working on my first book manuscript entitled "From Apartheid to Intersections at the United Nations: Antiracisms, Feminisms, and Human Rights." The book examines four decades of anti-racist and feminist mobilization within the UN, one of the most important multilateral global organizations in the world. This book examines the tensions and contradictions that emerge within actual human rights practices and discourses for racial/gender justice, both within and outside the institution. States and various civil society groups come to the UN with different understandings of racial/gender justice; thus intense contests and debates over language occurs in which my book locates itself. Most significantly, "From Apartheid to Intersections at the United Nations" explores the linkages and differences, between women of color organizations in the global North and South as these organizations are theorizing, explicitly and implicitly, a transnational politics of anti-racist feminisms. My transnational feminist ethnography is based on intensive field and archival research in Canada, México, Perú and the United States.
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