Cite Black Women
| Formation | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Christen A. Smith |
| Website | citeblackwomencollective.org |
Cite Black Women is a campaign that aims to "rethink the politics of knowledge production" by encouraging the citation of Black women, particularly in academic fields.[1] It was founded in 2017 by Christen A. Smith, an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, after a presenter at a conference she attended had plagiarized from a book she had written.[2] Smith made a t-shirt with the words Cite Black Women and began wearing it to conferences, eventually offering the shirts for sale at a meeting of the National Women's Studies Association and selling out of them within 24 hours. Proceeds from the shirts were donated to the Winnie Mandela School in Salvador, Bahia Brazil.[3] In 2018, Smith started a podcast with the same name. As of July 2020[update], she continued to sell the shirts and donate the proceeds.[4]
Organization[edit]
Cite Black Women is both a collective, as well as a hashtag campaign #CiteBlackWomen and #CiteBlackWomen Sunday.[3]
Goals[edit]
Cite Black Women has five core resolutions:[5][6]
- Read the works of Black women;
- Integrate Black women into the core of your syllabus (in life and in the classroom);
- Acknowledge Black women's intellectual production;
- Make space for Black women to speak;
- Give Black women the space and time to breathe.
The campaign is intended to address the underrepresentation of Black women in academia.[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Pagkas, Stella (February 19, 2021). "Cite Black Barnard Faculty Cite-a-Thon calls for representation in the classroom". Columbia Daily Spectator. Archived from the original on 2021-02-19. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
- ^ Williams, Kennedy (2020-05-01). "Podcasts from staff and faculty members help you learn while you listen". University of Texas. Archived from the original on 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
- ^ a b "OUR STORY". Cite Black Women. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ Lewis, Eshe (2020-07-16). "Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil". SAPIENS. Wenner‑Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, with University of Chicago Press. Archived from the original on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
- ^ Smith, Sera (2020-10-28). "Why we should cite Black women". The Daily Californian. Archived from the original on 2021-02-12. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
- ^ "Cite Black Women". District of Columbia Public Library. 2018-03-30. Archived from the original on 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
- ^ "'Cite Black Women' campaign gains momentum". Times Higher Education. 2018-01-22. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
Further reading[edit]
- Diana Kwon (22 March 2022). "The rise of citational justice: how scholars are making references fairer". Nature. 603 (7902): 568–571. Bibcode:2022Natur.603..568K. doi:10.1038/D41586-022-00793-1. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q111333081.
- Christen A. Smith (2021). "An Introduction to Cite Black Women". Feminist Anthropology. 2 (1): 6–9. doi:10.1002/FEA2.12050. ISSN 2643-7961. Wikidata Q121505058.
- Christen A. Smith; Erica L. Williams; Imani A. Wadud; Whitney N. L. Pirtle; The Cite Black Women Collective (2021). "Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis (A Statement)". Feminist Anthropology. 2 (1): 10–17. doi:10.1002/FEA2.12040. ISSN 2643-7961. Wikidata Q121505074.
- Christen A. Smith; Dominique Garrett‐Scott (5 April 2021). ""We are not named": Black women and the politics of citation in anthropology". Feminist Anthropology. 2 (1): 18–37. doi:10.1002/FEA2.12038. ISSN 2643-7961. Wikidata Q114267374.
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