Amaka Okechukwu (PhD, NYU) is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at George Mason University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar engaged in research on social movements, race, community studies, and Black archives.

Her work has appeared in Research in Conflicts, Social Movements, and Change and in The Sociology Project: Race and Ethnicity.

We dive into Amaka’s new book: To Fulfill These Rights: Political Contention Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions in Public Universities (Columbia University Press). Pre-Order here

Her work explores and offers insight into:

1. How do social movements emerge in relationship to changing ideas and practices of racial justice?
   
   


2. How has social policy developed in response to the demands of social movements?
   
   


3. How do identities like race, class, and gender function in the development of social movement collective identity and strategy?

We get into....

• The art of ‘air hustling’
  
  


• The underground Oakland hip-hop scene
  
  


• Educated while black, brown, and female
  
  


• WATCH! This is life: by Ava DuVernay: "A rich narrative of praise, clarification, brother-and-sisterhood and the birth of cool.” - LOS ANGELES TIMES
  
  


• Where we are, where we’re headed, and how we all can make education accessible and a top priority
  
  


• The intersectionality of oppression -- beyond affirmative action
  
  


• READ!  The Privileged Poor How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
  
  


• How to help the youth thrive in PWI (predominantly white institutions) beyond
  
  


• And much, much more…..THIS IS THE FINALE (FIRE!!!)...

Check for Dr. Amaka Okechukwu on twitter: @PhdAmaka

And her Website: amakaokechukwu.com

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