Oneka LaBennet, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies
USC Dornsife
Email: labennet@usc.edu
Oneka LaBennett is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn (NYU Press 2011), and co-editor of Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century (UC Press 2012). LaBennett’s OpEds and public commentary have appeared in platforms such as Ms. Magazine, The Guardian, and Politico. Elle Magazine ranked her course, “Women in Hip Hop,” among the top ten in a list of “College Classes that Give Us Hope for the Next Generation.” Her forthcoming book, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond will be published by NYU Press (2024).
