Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Biographic Data
| ID | 147549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Ossei-Owusu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Ossei-Owusu |
| SIGNATURE | OSSEI-OWUSU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Bar Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching Criminal Law a Decade into the Movement for Black Lives
After George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013, three women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, created, in their words, “a Black-centered, political-movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.” Just over a decade later, this movement has grown into a powerful, decentralized coalition catalyzed by the protest actions following the deaths of Ferguson teen Michael Brown and New Yorker Eric Garner …
Plundered
Coaching While Black
This article examines the lack of racial diversity among the National Football League's (NFL) head coaches. Focusing on each new coaching cohort since 2013, when all eight of the newly hired head coaches were white, we contest common explanations offered by the League and many sports journalists. Specifically, we challenge the assumption that the racial homogeneity of the coaching population stems from the league's current premium on offensive-or…
Racial Revisionism
A Review of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. by Corey Robin
Sara Mayeux, Free Justice
Public defenders occupy a peculiar position in American society. In theory, they defend the interests of individuals who are in opposition to the state, but they are also funded by the government. They labor under a quasi-fiction that suggests that, but for their funding source, they are independent and akin to privately retained counsel. This liminal status—which blends autonomous agent with government bureaucrat—is a tension that explains some …
Naija boy remix
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their ‘African Remix’ genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Naija boy remix
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their 'African Remix' genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Decoding Youth and Neo-Liberalism
To have a fuller grasp of the contemporary penalization of poverty, along with neoliberalism's regulative properties, a sociology of youth must be brought more to the fore. Although there are theoretical, ideological, and substantive disagreements about how to understand neoliberalism, the common themes that cut across varying approaches (e.g., market dominance, atrophy of the welfare state, reorganization of state capacities, personal responsibi…
Rats, Random Retribution, and Revolution
The abysmal state of the American criminal justice system and its pernicious features has been well documented in much of the relevant literature. Feeley and Simon (1992) propose the notion of a "new penology" that prioritizes efficient, cost-effective (and often actuarial) techniques to manage criminal populations, while Katherine Beckett (1997) argues that the punitive shift in crime control policy was an ideologically motivated response to the…
Naija boy remix
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their 'African Remix' genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Decoding Youth and Neo-Liberalism
To have a fuller grasp of the contemporary penalization of poverty, along with neoliberalism's regulative properties, a sociology of youth must be brought more to the fore. Although there are theoretical, ideological, and substantive disagreements about how to understand neoliberalism, the common themes that cut across varying approaches (e.g., market dominance, atrophy of the welfare state, reorganization of state capacities, personal responsibi…
Coaching While Black
This article examines the lack of racial diversity among the National Football League's (NFL) head coaches. Focusing on each new coaching cohort since 2013, when all eight of the newly hired head coaches were white, we contest common explanations offered by the League and many sports journalists. Specifically, we challenge the assumption that the racial homogeneity of the coaching population stems from the league's current premium on offensive-or…
Rats, Random Retribution, and Revolution
The abysmal state of the American criminal justice system and its pernicious features has been well documented in much of the relevant literature. Feeley and Simon (1992) propose the notion of a "new penology" that prioritizes efficient, cost-effective (and often actuarial) techniques to manage criminal populations, while Katherine Beckett (1997) argues that the punitive shift in crime control policy was an ideologically motivated response to the…
Decoding Youth and Neo-Liberalism
To have a fuller grasp of the contemporary penalization of poverty, along with neoliberalism's regulative properties, a sociology of youth must be brought more to the fore. Although there are theoretical, ideological, and substantive disagreements about how to understand neoliberalism, the common themes that cut across varying approaches (e.g., market dominance, atrophy of the welfare state, reorganization of state capacities, personal responsibi…
Naija boy remix
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their 'African Remix' genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Naija boy remix
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their ‘African Remix’ genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Racial Revisionism
A Review of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. by Corey Robin
Sara Mayeux, Free Justice
Public defenders occupy a peculiar position in American society. In theory, they defend the interests of individuals who are in opposition to the state, but they are also funded by the government. They labor under a quasi-fiction that suggests that, but for their funding source, they are independent and akin to privately retained counsel. This liminal status—which blends autonomous agent with government bureaucrat—is a tension that explains some …
Coaching While Black
This article examines the lack of racial diversity among the National Football League's (NFL) head coaches. Focusing on each new coaching cohort since 2013, when all eight of the newly hired head coaches were white, we contest common explanations offered by the League and many sports journalists. Specifically, we challenge the assumption that the racial homogeneity of the coaching population stems from the league's current premium on offensive-or…
Plundered
Teaching Criminal Law a Decade into the Movement for Black Lives
After George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013, three women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, created, in their words, “a Black-centered, political-movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.” Just over a decade later, this movement has grown into a powerful, decentralized coalition catalyzed by the protest actions following the deaths of Ferguson teen Michael Brown and New Yorker Eric Garner …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)