Detangling Beauty, Curly Hair, and Race
Katie Duarte of Brown University will serve as guest lecturer for this program.
About the Speaker
Katie Duarte is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Brown University. Her areas of expertise include gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, intersectionalities, Latinidad, cultural sociology, and qualitative methods. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Overall, her research agenda uses a cultural sociology approach to analyze the meanings and narratives individuals use to understand their experiences or cultural items, specifically for Afro-Latinx and Latinx people. Currently, her dissertation project considers the gendered narratives and Latinx and Black identity-making through curly hair and the natural hair movement amongst Dominicans (of all genders) in New York City and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, utilizing interviews and ethnographic observations at curly hair salons. Her project also explores how Dominican women (re)construct their ideas of radicalized femininity and beauty with their hair journey or their personal histories of hair.
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice.