A M Reese
Biographic Data
| ID | 49532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A M Reese |
| GIVEN NAMES | A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Reese |
| SIGNATURE | REESE A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2071-4636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Jailbreak of the Imagination: Anthropology and the Practice of Abolition
Rooted in the freedom dreams of Black political movements across diasporas, abolition has emerged as a framework for the study and practice of building a world without captivity. Anthropologists of social movements have attended to the dreamers and destroyers doing this work, turning an analytic eye to the practice of abolition among community organizers, high school students, immigrant rights advocates, and queer activists. As the discipline fla…
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
Fieldwork with the Dead and Other Considerations: An Interview with Ashanté M. Reese
Joining in virtual conversation, Ashanté M. Reese and Sheyda M. Aboii explore their engagements with Black feminist praxis and theory in their ethnographic fieldwork and emergent projects. Marking the start of the inaugural Black Feminist Health Science Studies (BFHSS) Collaboratory in May 2021, this edited interview between a professor and graduate student addresses perspectives on what it might mean to work alongside others and attend to method…
Sweetness in the Key of Black: Notes on Baking and Belonging
Few commodities have shaped and continue to haunt the lives of Black people across the diaspora as much as sugar. Yet, to only view Black people’s relationship to sugar through violent histories and presents is to miss a sweetness—belonging, intimacy, connection—that exceeds it. Inspired by Dionne Brand’s assertion that reclaiming the Black body is an ongoing creative project, this article uses baking as a method toward answering the question, Ho…
We All We Got: Urban Black Ecologies of Care and Mutual Aid
Urban ecologies are fraught with inequities, often resulting in humanitarian or charity solutions that emphasize lack rather than communities’ self-determination. While these inequities have been widely documented, the COVID-19 pandemic further reveals how these crises are not the sum result of individual failures. Rather, they are systemically produced through policies that harm people. How do Black urban residents contend with the sociohistoric…
Food and carcerality: From confinement to abolition
Carceral spaces—such as neighborhood zones of police surveillance and plantation prisons that exploit incarcerated labor—reflect and reproduce systems of oppression that are also present in the food system. The state regularly polices poverty instead of addressing how racial capitalism perpetuates the lack of access to basic needs like healthy food. Conversely, the food system relies on carceral practices to secure disciplined labor by weaponizin…
Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon: Money, Racism, and Success
D.C. is mambo sauce”: Black cultural production in a gentrifying city
Centering mambo sauce as both a cultural staple and a metaphor for struggles over ownership in Washington, D.C., this article explores mambo sauce’s role in constructing a D.C. identity. Drawing on data from ethnographic interviews and newspaper headlines, I argue that, against the background of intense and consistent gentrification that has left the city’s population younger, whiter, and wealthier, mambo sauce becomes a lens through which to exa…
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
In this book, Ashanté M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents’ navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Reese not only documents racism and…
Dear Graduate Student
When We Come to Anthropology, Elsewhere Comes with Us
Zora Neale Hurston and Ethnography of Black Life
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Alabama and raised in Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-Black incorporated towns in the US Growing up in Eatonville influenced Zora&s;s understanding of race, the possibilities of Black leadership, and the value of Black life. Howard University was the incubator for some of Hurston&s;s early award-winning fiction that established her as an emerging voice in the Harlem Renaissance, her stud…
We will not perish; we’re going to keep flourishing”: Race, Food Access, and Geographies of Self‐Reliance
Drawing from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Washington, DC, this article outlines geographies of self‐reliance; a theoretical framework for understanding black food geographies that are embedded in histories of self‐reliance as a response to structural inequalities. Using a community garden as a case study, I argue that the garden functions as a site for addressing several manifestations of structural violence: racist and classist depicti…
Understanding the Subjective Experience of Medication Adherence for Older Urban African Americans With Type 2 Diabetes and a History of Illicit Drug Addiction
Previous drug abuse not only complicates medication adherence but is also a significant part of how older African Americans who are former drug users frame their understanding of T2D more broadly
Successful Aging Among African American Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Table 1
Hardship and illness in participants' lives frame their diabetes experience and notions of well-being. Providers need to be aware of the social, economic, and political lenses shaping diabetes self-management and subjective well-being
The Effect of Religious Service Attendance on Race Differences in Depression: Findings from the Ehdic-SWB Study
But of Course He is Led by God: Pastoral Influence on an HIV/Aids Ministry
HIV/AIDS is spreading more rapidly in black communities than any other in the United States, with black women being 23 times more likely to become infected than any other subgroup in the country. Some African-American churches are becoming involved by creating HIV/AIDS ministries that cater to various needs of local populations. Through an examination of deictic markers, this article analyzes ideologies surrounding HIV/AIDS and the pastor's influ…
We will not perish; we’re going to keep flourishing”: Race, Food Access, and Geographies of Self‐Reliance
Drawing from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Washington, DC, this article outlines geographies of self‐reliance; a theoretical framework for understanding black food geographies that are embedded in histories of self‐reliance as a response to structural inequalities. Using a community garden as a case study, I argue that the garden functions as a site for addressing several manifestations of structural violence: racist and classist depicti…
Food and carcerality: From confinement to abolition
Carceral spaces—such as neighborhood zones of police surveillance and plantation prisons that exploit incarcerated labor—reflect and reproduce systems of oppression that are also present in the food system. The state regularly polices poverty instead of addressing how racial capitalism perpetuates the lack of access to basic needs like healthy food. Conversely, the food system relies on carceral practices to secure disciplined labor by weaponizin…
D.C. is mambo sauce”: Black cultural production in a gentrifying city
Centering mambo sauce as both a cultural staple and a metaphor for struggles over ownership in Washington, D.C., this article explores mambo sauce’s role in constructing a D.C. identity. Drawing on data from ethnographic interviews and newspaper headlines, I argue that, against the background of intense and consistent gentrification that has left the city’s population younger, whiter, and wealthier, mambo sauce becomes a lens through which to exa…
When We Come to Anthropology, Elsewhere Comes with Us
The Effect of Religious Service Attendance on Race Differences in Depression: Findings from the Ehdic-SWB Study
Dear Graduate Student
Fieldwork with the Dead and Other Considerations: An Interview with Ashanté M. Reese
Joining in virtual conversation, Ashanté M. Reese and Sheyda M. Aboii explore their engagements with Black feminist praxis and theory in their ethnographic fieldwork and emergent projects. Marking the start of the inaugural Black Feminist Health Science Studies (BFHSS) Collaboratory in May 2021, this edited interview between a professor and graduate student addresses perspectives on what it might mean to work alongside others and attend to method…
Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon: Money, Racism, and Success
Successful Aging Among African American Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Table 1
Hardship and illness in participants' lives frame their diabetes experience and notions of well-being. Providers need to be aware of the social, economic, and political lenses shaping diabetes self-management and subjective well-being
But of Course He is Led by God: Pastoral Influence on an HIV/Aids Ministry
HIV/AIDS is spreading more rapidly in black communities than any other in the United States, with black women being 23 times more likely to become infected than any other subgroup in the country. Some African-American churches are becoming involved by creating HIV/AIDS ministries that cater to various needs of local populations. Through an examination of deictic markers, this article analyzes ideologies surrounding HIV/AIDS and the pastor's influ…
But of Course He is Led by God: Pastoral Influence on an HIV/Aids Ministry
HIV/AIDS is spreading more rapidly in black communities than any other in the United States, with black women being 23 times more likely to become infected than any other subgroup in the country. Some African-American churches are becoming involved by creating HIV/AIDS ministries that cater to various needs of local populations. Through an examination of deictic markers, this article analyzes ideologies surrounding HIV/AIDS and the pastor's influ…
The Effect of Religious Service Attendance on Race Differences in Depression: Findings from the Ehdic-SWB Study
Understanding the Subjective Experience of Medication Adherence for Older Urban African Americans With Type 2 Diabetes and a History of Illicit Drug Addiction
Previous drug abuse not only complicates medication adherence but is also a significant part of how older African Americans who are former drug users frame their understanding of T2D more broadly
Successful Aging Among African American Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Table 1
Hardship and illness in participants' lives frame their diabetes experience and notions of well-being. Providers need to be aware of the social, economic, and political lenses shaping diabetes self-management and subjective well-being
Zora Neale Hurston and Ethnography of Black Life
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Alabama and raised in Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-Black incorporated towns in the US Growing up in Eatonville influenced Zora&s;s understanding of race, the possibilities of Black leadership, and the value of Black life. Howard University was the incubator for some of Hurston&s;s early award-winning fiction that established her as an emerging voice in the Harlem Renaissance, her stud…
We will not perish; we’re going to keep flourishing”: Race, Food Access, and Geographies of Self‐Reliance
Drawing from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Washington, DC, this article outlines geographies of self‐reliance; a theoretical framework for understanding black food geographies that are embedded in histories of self‐reliance as a response to structural inequalities. Using a community garden as a case study, I argue that the garden functions as a site for addressing several manifestations of structural violence: racist and classist depicti…
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
In this book, Ashanté M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents’ navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Reese not only documents racism and…
Dear Graduate Student
When We Come to Anthropology, Elsewhere Comes with Us
D.C. is mambo sauce”: Black cultural production in a gentrifying city
Centering mambo sauce as both a cultural staple and a metaphor for struggles over ownership in Washington, D.C., this article explores mambo sauce’s role in constructing a D.C. identity. Drawing on data from ethnographic interviews and newspaper headlines, I argue that, against the background of intense and consistent gentrification that has left the city’s population younger, whiter, and wealthier, mambo sauce becomes a lens through which to exa…
Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon: Money, Racism, and Success
We All We Got: Urban Black Ecologies of Care and Mutual Aid
Urban ecologies are fraught with inequities, often resulting in humanitarian or charity solutions that emphasize lack rather than communities’ self-determination. While these inequities have been widely documented, the COVID-19 pandemic further reveals how these crises are not the sum result of individual failures. Rather, they are systemically produced through policies that harm people. How do Black urban residents contend with the sociohistoric…
Food and carcerality: From confinement to abolition
Carceral spaces—such as neighborhood zones of police surveillance and plantation prisons that exploit incarcerated labor—reflect and reproduce systems of oppression that are also present in the food system. The state regularly polices poverty instead of addressing how racial capitalism perpetuates the lack of access to basic needs like healthy food. Conversely, the food system relies on carceral practices to secure disciplined labor by weaponizin…
Sweetness in the Key of Black: Notes on Baking and Belonging
Few commodities have shaped and continue to haunt the lives of Black people across the diaspora as much as sugar. Yet, to only view Black people’s relationship to sugar through violent histories and presents is to miss a sweetness—belonging, intimacy, connection—that exceeds it. Inspired by Dionne Brand’s assertion that reclaiming the Black body is an ongoing creative project, this article uses baking as a method toward answering the question, Ho…
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
Fieldwork with the Dead and Other Considerations: An Interview with Ashanté M. Reese
Joining in virtual conversation, Ashanté M. Reese and Sheyda M. Aboii explore their engagements with Black feminist praxis and theory in their ethnographic fieldwork and emergent projects. Marking the start of the inaugural Black Feminist Health Science Studies (BFHSS) Collaboratory in May 2021, this edited interview between a professor and graduate student addresses perspectives on what it might mean to work alongside others and attend to method…
Jailbreak of the Imagination: Anthropology and the Practice of Abolition
Rooted in the freedom dreams of Black political movements across diasporas, abolition has emerged as a framework for the study and practice of building a world without captivity. Anthropologists of social movements have attended to the dreamers and destroyers doing this work, turning an analytic eye to the practice of abolition among community organizers, high school students, immigrant rights advocates, and queer activists. As the discipline fla…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works)