{"id":657,"date":"2023-11-15T17:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cmbs\/?page_id=657"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:21:19","slug":"oneka-labennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cmbs\/oneka-labennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"cta-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cmbs\/oneka-labennett-es\/\"><em>Espa\u00f1ol<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--featured-block \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--featured-block\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Oneka LaBennett, Ph.D.\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Associate Professor\\nAmerican Studies and Ethnicity\\nGender and Sexuality Studies&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\"><strong>Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>USC Dornsife<\/em><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:labennet@usc.edu\">labennet@usc.edu<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;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).\\n\\nThe only ethnographic monograph on Brooklyn\u2019s Caribbean adolescent girls\u2019 identity mediations vis-\u00e0-vis popular culture, She\u2019s Mad Real anticipated the emerging subfield of Black girlhood studies as a critical departure point for addressing questions related to coming of age in the African diaspora, Black feminism, and the delineation of raced\/gendered\/age-based\/classed power.\\n\\nLaBennett\u2019s OpEds and public commentary have appeared in platforms such as Ms. Magazine, The Guardian, and Politico. Elle Magazine ranked her course, \u201cWomen in Hip Hop,\u201d among the top ten in a list of \u201cCollege Classes that Give Us Hope for the Next Generation.\u201d\\n\\nHer forthcoming book, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond will be published by NYU Press (2024). Previously ranked among the hemisphere\u2019s poorest countries, Guyana is poised to become the world\u2019s highest per capita oil producer\u2014offering a critical vantage point for parsing the environmental consequences of the resource extraction that fuels our modern world, as well as pernicious forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women\u2019s lives. Global Guyana develops a powerful set of heuristics to trace the entwined histories of descendants of enslaved Africans and Indian indentured laborers, alongside the contemporary dynamics of the outsized Guyanese diaspora, and the broad reach of the nation\u2019s extractive industries. The book explores distinct yet interrelated realms, including media depictions, women\u2019s kinship ties, sonic routes, and the circulation of oil and sand, to uncover how this understudied place reshapes transnational gendered racializations and the very topography that has come to be emblematic of the Caribbean region\u2014beaches and shorelines.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Oneka LaBennett is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of She\u2019s 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\u2019s OpEds and public commentary have appeared in platforms such as Ms. Magazine, The Guardian, and Politico. 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