Aimee Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aimee Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aimee |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Signing Off, Calling Forward
On Moving Words
Extraordinary Intersections
Reading Race Now
Bricks and Mortar
Homecoming
Thugs, Black Divas, and Gendered Aspirations
This essay presents ethnographic data from more than five years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter and among African-American young women living in greater Detroit to contextualize an analysis of how the sexual identities of low-income women of color are framed by the racialized and class-based expectations of nonprofit community organizations, the welfare system, and vocational-training programs. Young black women living in postindustrial D…
The Blacklight Project and Public Scholarship: Young Black Women Perform Against and Through the Boundaries of Anthropology
In this essay, I use the resistance work of residents at the Fresh Start shelter for young women in Detroit and BlackLight, an arts‐based social justice project that emerged from the shelter, as the frame to consider several tensions within public anthropology. I am particularly concerned with what is at stake in the processes of both defining and practicing public anthropology for minority scholars working against the traditional boundaries of t…
The Blacklight Project and Public Scholarship: Young Black Women Perform Against and Through the Boundaries of Anthropology
In this essay, I use the resistance work of residents at the Fresh Start shelter for young women in Detroit and BlackLight, an arts‐based social justice project that emerged from the shelter, as the frame to consider several tensions within public anthropology. I am particularly concerned with what is at stake in the processes of both defining and practicing public anthropology for minority scholars working against the traditional boundaries of t…
Thugs, Black Divas, and Gendered Aspirations
This essay presents ethnographic data from more than five years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter and among African-American young women living in greater Detroit to contextualize an analysis of how the sexual identities of low-income women of color are framed by the racialized and class-based expectations of nonprofit community organizations, the welfare system, and vocational-training programs. Young black women living in postindustrial D…
The Blacklight Project and Public Scholarship: Young Black Women Perform Against and Through the Boundaries of Anthropology
In this essay, I use the resistance work of residents at the Fresh Start shelter for young women in Detroit and BlackLight, an arts‐based social justice project that emerged from the shelter, as the frame to consider several tensions within public anthropology. I am particularly concerned with what is at stake in the processes of both defining and practicing public anthropology for minority scholars working against the traditional boundaries of t…
Bricks and Mortar
Homecoming
Extraordinary Intersections
Reading Race Now
Signing Off, Calling Forward
On Moving Words
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