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Deborah Karyn King

Associate Professor of Sociology, and of African and African American Studies
Chair of the African and African American Studies Program
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Departments

  • African and African American Studies
  • Sociology
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: deborah.k.king@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3410
Office: 6104 Silsby Hall

Education

B.A. Northwestern University; M.A. Yale University; M. Phil. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University

Areas of Expertise

Sociology of law; African American women; race, class, and gender; deviance and social control; sociology of culture

Selected Works

  • "Mapping Our Past, Surveying Our Future: Thinking About African American Women's Lives," Gender & Society, (September 1992) 512-515.
  • "Missing the Beat, Unraveling the Threads: Class and Gender in Afro-American Social Issues," The Black Scholar, 22:3 (Summer 1992) 36-44.
  • "Black Women and Feminism," "Double Jeopardy," "Equal Rights Amendment," and "Womanist," The Women's Studies Encyclopedia, H S Tierney, (ed.), 1 (1989) 42-44, 110-113, 121-124, and 389-390.
  • "The Women's College," in Women in Academe: Progress and Prospects, with P Palmieri, M K Chamberlain (ed.), (1989) 107-131.
  • "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, (Autumn 1988) 88-111.

Current Projects

"'Wish You Were Here': Representing Prison on Picture Postcards, 1900-1950;" Improvisational Politics, Race, Class and Gender and the Political Aesthetics of Black Womanhood