Antonia Randolph
Biographic Data
| ID | 119104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonia Randolph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Randolph |
| SIGNATURE | RANDOLPH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Winston-Salem State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On Thralldom and Other Everyday Apocalypses
This article considers how queer theory constructs apocalypse based on a normative understanding of what counts as queer and an inattention to the existence of multiple sexual worlds. Taking hip-hop culture as her case, the author argues that there is a distinct Black sexual world with its own definition of apocalypse. Both queer theory and hip-hop common sense overlook everyday forms of apocalypse that reflect non-normative attachments and emoti…
All Queer Everything
Bringing Our Small, Imperfect Stones to the Pile”: The Everyday Work of Building a More Just World
In this conversation between Brittany Pearl Battle and Tamara K. Nopper (facilitated by Antonia Randolph), two sociologists who have been involved in a variety of social justice struggles (e.g. prison abolition, worker’s rights, Asian American rights), describe the everyday practices that make up struggles for social justice. They identify a spectrum of practices that individuals can do to bring about a more just world, while arguing that all pra…
Stay Down”: Moonlight and Negative Affect as an Analytic
Violence can be intimate and revealing. People reveal much about themselves when they give or receive a beating. So it was when Kevin hit his lifelong friend Chiron in a Miami schoolyard in the second act of Moonlight.1 They shared another type of intimacy the night before when they confessed feelings of despair and loneliness to each other on a beach. These vulnerable emotions created a space to risk touching, leading to a kiss that melted into …
Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line
Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music
This article analyzes how four Black musical artists make "quiet," or the inner life of African Americans, legible. Specifically, we consider ways that the quiet found within the lyrics of recent acclaimed albums from two hip-hop artists and two neo-soul artists-Kendrick Lamar's DAMN (2017) and Rapsody's Laila's Wisdom (2017), Solange's A Seat at the Table (2016) and Maxwell's blackSUMMERS'night (2016), respectively-offer subtle, quotidian challe…
Response to Weddington: More Lessons from Afro-pessimism
In this response to George Weddington’s critique of their recent article, the authors argue that Weddington rightfully critiques them for not paying enough attention to the role of psychoanalysis (exemplified by Frantz Fanon) in Afro-pessimist theory and for not giving primacy to the political ontology of blackness in Afro-pessimist thought. However, his critique is hindered by his mischaracterizing the authors’ argument as saying that black poli…
James Baldwin and the Lay Race Theorist Tradition
This chapter examines whether sociology has engaged James Baldwin&s;s work as a source of social theory. It considers why sociology has not mined Baldwin&s;s work for social theory more. Baldwin contributes to social theory through his notion that white&s;s belief in their racial innocence prevents them from confronting white supremacy and his intersectional practice of examining race, gender, and sexuality. A brief biographical sketch can help f…
When Men Give Birth to Intimacy: The Case of Jay-Z’s “4:44”
Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives
Much work in the sociology of race and ethnicity centers on an underlying narrative of racial progress. Progress narratives are typically conceptualized as a linear process of slow, yet inevitable, improvement. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and Afro-Pessimism, theoretical perspectives that emerged outside of the discipline of sociology, this paper urges a rethinking of linear progress narratives. First we elucidate the central tenets of these t…
Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity
A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform
Predicting Perceptions of Fear at School and Going to and From School for African American and White Students: The Effects of School Security Measures
This article uses the School Crime Supplement of the National Crime Victimization Survey to investigate the factors related to White and African American students' perceived levels of fear of harm, while at school and while commuting to and from school. Of particular interest were the effects of school security measures, including metal detectors, security guards, locked doors, and surveillance cameras. After controlling for the effects of previo…
Teachers' Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning: The Importance of Race, Class, and Organizational Habitus
This article examines how the concentration of low-income African American students in urban elementary schools is deeply coupled with a leveling of teachers' expectations of students and a reduction in their sense of responsibility for student learning. We argue that this process is rooted in school-based organizational habitus through which expectations of students become embedded in schools. We show that this process can be mediated if school …
Teachers' Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning: The Importance of Race, Class, and Organizational Habitus
This article examines how the concentration of low-income African American students in urban elementary schools is deeply coupled with a leveling of teachers' expectations of students and a reduction in their sense of responsibility for student learning. We argue that this process is rooted in school-based organizational habitus through which expectations of students become embedded in schools. We show that this process can be mediated if school …
Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives
Much work in the sociology of race and ethnicity centers on an underlying narrative of racial progress. Progress narratives are typically conceptualized as a linear process of slow, yet inevitable, improvement. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and Afro-Pessimism, theoretical perspectives that emerged outside of the discipline of sociology, this paper urges a rethinking of linear progress narratives. First we elucidate the central tenets of these t…
Predicting Perceptions of Fear at School and Going to and From School for African American and White Students: The Effects of School Security Measures
This article uses the School Crime Supplement of the National Crime Victimization Survey to investigate the factors related to White and African American students' perceived levels of fear of harm, while at school and while commuting to and from school. Of particular interest were the effects of school security measures, including metal detectors, security guards, locked doors, and surveillance cameras. After controlling for the effects of previo…
Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music
This article analyzes how four Black musical artists make "quiet," or the inner life of African Americans, legible. Specifically, we consider ways that the quiet found within the lyrics of recent acclaimed albums from two hip-hop artists and two neo-soul artists-Kendrick Lamar's DAMN (2017) and Rapsody's Laila's Wisdom (2017), Solange's A Seat at the Table (2016) and Maxwell's blackSUMMERS'night (2016), respectively-offer subtle, quotidian challe…
Response to Weddington: More Lessons from Afro-pessimism
In this response to George Weddington’s critique of their recent article, the authors argue that Weddington rightfully critiques them for not paying enough attention to the role of psychoanalysis (exemplified by Frantz Fanon) in Afro-pessimist theory and for not giving primacy to the political ontology of blackness in Afro-pessimist thought. However, his critique is hindered by his mischaracterizing the authors’ argument as saying that black poli…
Teachers' Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning: The Importance of Race, Class, and Organizational Habitus
This article examines how the concentration of low-income African American students in urban elementary schools is deeply coupled with a leveling of teachers' expectations of students and a reduction in their sense of responsibility for student learning. We argue that this process is rooted in school-based organizational habitus through which expectations of students become embedded in schools. We show that this process can be mediated if school …
Predicting Perceptions of Fear at School and Going to and From School for African American and White Students: The Effects of School Security Measures
This article uses the School Crime Supplement of the National Crime Victimization Survey to investigate the factors related to White and African American students' perceived levels of fear of harm, while at school and while commuting to and from school. Of particular interest were the effects of school security measures, including metal detectors, security guards, locked doors, and surveillance cameras. After controlling for the effects of previo…
A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform
Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity
Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives
Much work in the sociology of race and ethnicity centers on an underlying narrative of racial progress. Progress narratives are typically conceptualized as a linear process of slow, yet inevitable, improvement. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and Afro-Pessimism, theoretical perspectives that emerged outside of the discipline of sociology, this paper urges a rethinking of linear progress narratives. First we elucidate the central tenets of these t…
James Baldwin and the Lay Race Theorist Tradition
This chapter examines whether sociology has engaged James Baldwin&s;s work as a source of social theory. It considers why sociology has not mined Baldwin&s;s work for social theory more. Baldwin contributes to social theory through his notion that white&s;s belief in their racial innocence prevents them from confronting white supremacy and his intersectional practice of examining race, gender, and sexuality. A brief biographical sketch can help f…
When Men Give Birth to Intimacy: The Case of Jay-Z’s “4:44”
Response to Weddington: More Lessons from Afro-pessimism
In this response to George Weddington’s critique of their recent article, the authors argue that Weddington rightfully critiques them for not paying enough attention to the role of psychoanalysis (exemplified by Frantz Fanon) in Afro-pessimist theory and for not giving primacy to the political ontology of blackness in Afro-pessimist thought. However, his critique is hindered by his mischaracterizing the authors’ argument as saying that black poli…
Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music
This article analyzes how four Black musical artists make "quiet," or the inner life of African Americans, legible. Specifically, we consider ways that the quiet found within the lyrics of recent acclaimed albums from two hip-hop artists and two neo-soul artists-Kendrick Lamar's DAMN (2017) and Rapsody's Laila's Wisdom (2017), Solange's A Seat at the Table (2016) and Maxwell's blackSUMMERS'night (2016), respectively-offer subtle, quotidian challe…
Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line
Stay Down”: Moonlight and Negative Affect as an Analytic
Violence can be intimate and revealing. People reveal much about themselves when they give or receive a beating. So it was when Kevin hit his lifelong friend Chiron in a Miami schoolyard in the second act of Moonlight.1 They shared another type of intimacy the night before when they confessed feelings of despair and loneliness to each other on a beach. These vulnerable emotions created a space to risk touching, leading to a kiss that melted into …
Bringing Our Small, Imperfect Stones to the Pile”: The Everyday Work of Building a More Just World
In this conversation between Brittany Pearl Battle and Tamara K. Nopper (facilitated by Antonia Randolph), two sociologists who have been involved in a variety of social justice struggles (e.g. prison abolition, worker’s rights, Asian American rights), describe the everyday practices that make up struggles for social justice. They identify a spectrum of practices that individuals can do to bring about a more just world, while arguing that all pra…
All Queer Everything
On Thralldom and Other Everyday Apocalypses
This article considers how queer theory constructs apocalypse based on a normative understanding of what counts as queer and an inattention to the existence of multiple sexual worlds. Taking hip-hop culture as her case, the author argues that there is a distinct Black sexual world with its own definition of apocalypse. Both queer theory and hip-hop common sense overlook everyday forms of apocalypse that reflect non-normative attachments and emoti…
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)