Bagels And Plantains

Amaka Okechukwu (PhD, NYU) is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at George Mason University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar engaged in research on social movements, race, community studies, and Black archives. Her work has appeared in Research in Conflicts, Social Movements, and Change and in The Sociology Project: Race and Ethnicity. We dive into Amaka’s new book: To Fulfill These Rights: Political Contention Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions in Public Universities (Columbia University Press). Pre-Order here Her work explores and offers insight into: How do social movements emerge in relationship to changing ideas and practices of racial justice? How has social policy developed in response to the demands of social movements? How do identities like race, class, and gender function in the development of social movement collective identity and strategy? We get into.... The art of ‘air hustling’ The underground Oakland hip-hop scene Educated while black, brown