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Jamella Gow

Affiliation: Sociology
Rasuli Lewis Assistant Professor of Sociology

Jamella Gow is the Rasuli Lewis Assistant Professor of Sociology at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College where she teaches courses on race and ethnicity, Black culture and activism, migration and policing, borders and il/legality, globalization, and culture. Her research focuses on how im/migration, race, and the Blackness intersect for Black migrants. She explores how Caribbean migrants navigate racial and ethnic identity, inclusion/exclusion, and diasporic politics through immigrant status and Blackness in the United States. Her most recent publications include “From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness,” "Countering Anti-Blackness with Migrant Solidarity: Black and Caribbean Linkages through Racial Struggle,” “Race, Nation, or Community?: Political Strategy and Identity-Making within the Transnational Haitian Diaspora in Miami’s ‘Little Haiti,’” and “Reworking Race, Nation, and Diaspora on the Margins. Her current book project titled Black Migrants from Black Nations: Race, Blackness, and Immigrant Exclusion explores how racial, ethnic, and national status markers shape the racialization and criminalization of Haitian, Jamaican, and Afro-Cubans in south Florida. She has also published an edited volume with Philip Kretsedemas titled Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Anti-Blackness which challenges immigration scholarship through the interdisciplinary lens of Black Studies.

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