Lyndsey P Beutin

Biographic Data

ID169536
NAMELyndsey P Beutin
GIVEN NAMESLyndsey P
FAMILY NAMEBeutin
SIGNATUREBEUTIN L P
AFFILIATIONSMcMaster University
ORCID0000-0001-6311-2542
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Race as a discourse of power: Approaches for communication studies

    Open AccessLyndsey P BeutinARTICLECommunication Culture and Critique2026

    This article argues that the field of communication studies needs to understand how race functions as a discourse of power in order to more thoroughly reckon with the ways that race shapes key concepts in our field. This article aims to clearly lay out for communication scholars who don’t “do race” how race has shaped European liberal modernity’s logics, ways of knowing, institutions, and practices. I do so by building a framework from decades of…

  • Trading sex for freedom: The influence of Kamala Kempadoo's early scholarship

    Open AccessLyndsey P BeutinARTICLEFeminist Anthropology2025

    This article revisits Kamala Kempadoo's publications on sex work in the Caribbean in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This period marks both the era before the framework of anti‐trafficking consumed the field of sex work studies and the era when Black feminist ethnographic research on how race, class, and structural violence affected women's lives globally was making an impact across disciplines. By focusing on three key concepts (work, race and g…

  • Global sex work research collaborations before the anti-trafficking industry: A conversation with Kamala Kempadoo and Amalia Cabezas

    Open AccessKamala Kempadoo, Lyndsey P Beutin et al.ARTICLEFeminist Anthropology2025References: 3

    The special issue co-editors (Lyndsey Beutin, April Petillo, and Elena Shih) sat down with Kamala Kempadoo and long-time collaborator Amalia Cabezas on July 26, 2024, over Zoom to hear about what sex work research was like before the anti-trafficking framework cannibalized the sex workers' rights movement

  • Trafficking in Antiblackness: Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice

    Lyndsey P BeutinBOOKTrafficking in Antiblackness2023

  • There’s a trafficking jam on the underground railroad: Black abolitionist icons and anti-trafficking media

    Lyndsey P BeutinARTICLEFeminist Media Studies2022References: 17

    This article demonstrates how anti-trafficking media use the public memory of the Underground Railroad to racially legitimize US global policing regimes. From far-right paramilitary vigilante groups to liberal multicultural public history institutions, the anti-trafficking industry’s reverence for 19th-century Black women abolitionist icons is mobilized, counter-intuitively, to build public support for carceral agendas. Through visual analysis of…

  • The Radical Yes: A Constellation of Mutual Aid Projects in Charlottesville

    Lyndsey P Beutin, Lyndsey Beutin et al.ARTICLESouthern cultures2021

    This essay describes how local anti-racist activists in Charlottesville created the Resilience Fund, a mutual aid project that disbursed money to individuals navigating the criminal legal system and the effects of structural white supremacy. The Resilience Fund came to be through interrelated racial justice struggles over jails, courts, public housing and urban planning, and Confederate monuments. Although #Charlottesville became national news in…

  • Racialization as a Way of Seeing: The Limits of Counter-Surveillance and Police Reform

    Open AccessLyndsey P BeutinARTICLESurveillance & Society2017Cited by: 11References: 5

    This paper considers the role of video footage in recent high-profile cases of anti-black police brutality in the United States. I illuminate the limits of the counter-surveillance impetus to film the police by contextualizing this strain of social media utopianism within the larger history of what I call “racialization as a way of seeing.” Racialization as a way of seeing is a historical formation that brings together the history of policing, th…

  • Black Suffering for/from Anti-trafficking Advocacy

    Open AccessLyndsey P BeutinARTICLEAnti-Trafficking Review2017Cited by: 16

    This article analyses the images that Antislavery Usable Past creates to promote its cause of ‘making the antislavery past usable for contemporary abolition’. Drawing on collective memory studies, I discuss the political implications of how pasts are used for present issues. I argue that Antislavery Usable Past appropriates black suffering by reducing the memory and imagery of slavery to objects that are compatible with the anti-trafficking narra…

  • Exhibiting repair in twenty-first-century reinstallations of African collections

    Lyndsey P Beutin, Lyndsey BeutinARTICLECultural Studies2014

    This article analyses three twenty-first-century reinstallations of African objects in the United States and South Africa that use gallery space to explicitly address and symbolically redress an institutional history of problematic representations of Africa, and by extension, of blackness. Each project has updated its interpretation to reflect black cultural studies scholarship that emphasizes dynamism within diasporas and attempts to intervene o…