Trica Keaton

|Professor
Academic Appointments

  • Professor of Black Studies

  • Affiliated Faculty - Departments of Sociology and Film & Media Studies

  • Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellow of the European Commission/ French Institute for Advanced Study (FIAS) / Iméra 2024-25

Hello / Bonjour!
I am a professor and interdisciplinary social scientist whose research and teaching explore evidence-based responses to enduring societal questions: What does it mean to be racialized in the U.S., France, Europe, and beyond—particularly through the lens of black (intentionally lowercase) racialization? What are the consequences of this longstanding process, and how have individuals and communities actively resisted and refused those consequences?

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Contact

Trica.Keaton@dartmouth.edu
Haldeman Center, Room 367
HB 6134

Department(s)

African and African American Studies

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D. with distinction - Education (Sociology of Education and African Diaspora Studies), 2001
  • École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France: Doctoral Studies in Sociology
  • University of California, Los Angeles: M.A. - Applied Linguistics (Language Policy and Immigration in France)
  • Middlebury College: M.A. - French
  • University of California, Los Angeles: B.A. - Linguistics and French

Selected Publications

  • Books (monographs and edited volumes)

    Real to Reel: Racialized Representations and French Banlieue Cinéma, In progress
    #You Know You're Black in France When...The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness, MIT Press, 2023
    Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness, (co-edited), Duke University Press, 2012
    Black Europe and the African Diaspora, (co-edited), University of Illinois Press, 2009
    Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion, Indiana University Press, 2006

    Selected Articles and Other Publications

    "Why are French Authorities acknowledging racial profiling but doing nothing about it?" Contexts (Sociology for the Public), January 12, 2024, https://contexts.org/blog/france-racial-profiling/

    "Race," in Keywords for African American Studies (New York: New York University Press, 2018): 163-167

    "Au Nègre Joyeux: Everyday Anti-blackness Guised as Public Art," Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art (2016): 52-58

    "Review of Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe by Michael McEachrane (ed), The Black Scholar 46, no. 1 (2016): 77-80

    "Racial Profiling and the 'French Exception.'" French Cultural Studies, 24, no. 2 (2013): 231-242

    "Euzhan Palcy: Creative Dissent, Artistic Reckoning—An Interview by Trica Danielle Keaton," Palimpsest (2012): 116-134

    "Racial Profiling: France and the U.S." (part 1 and part 2), Racism Review, 2012

    "The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy," Feminist Wire, 2011, https://thefeministwire.com/2011/05/the-defiant-one-euzhan-palcy/

    "The Politics of Race-Blindness: (Anti)blackness and Category Blindness in Contemporary France," Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 7, no.1 (2010): 103-131

    "Le Septième Art in Black: 'Black French Cinema' and the 'Black' Presence in France," American Center France (U.S. Embassy, Paris, France), 2010 [removed]

    "'Black (American) Paris' and the 'Other France': The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity," In Black Europe and the African Diaspora, eds. D. Clark Hine, T. Keaton, and S. Small, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009)

    "Black Paris/Paris Noir," in Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, (Westport, CT: ABC-CLIO Press/Greenwood Publishing, 2008): 187-188

    "Review of Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image by Bennetta Jules-Rosette," Journal of American Studies, 42, no.  2 (2008): 2

     "Arrogant Assimilationism: National Identity Politics and African Origin Muslim Girls in the Other France," Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36, no. 4 (2005): 405-423

    "Un Regard Afro-américain sur une 'Cité' de la Banlieue Parisienne : Les Courtillières," Agone: Sociologie, Histoire & Politique, 29-30 (2003) : 121-134

     "Review of We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World by Manthia Diawara," African Studies Review, 46, no 3 (2003): 175-176

    "Muslim Girls and the 'Other France': An Examination of Identity Construction," Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 5, no. 1 (1999): 47-64

     

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