Cite Black Women
Formation2017 (2017)
FounderChristen A. Smith
Websiteciteblackwomencollective.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, she continued to sell the shirts and donate the proceeds.[4]

Organization

Cite Black Women is both a collective, as well as a hashtag campaign #CiteBlackWomen and #CiteBlackWomen Sunday.[3]

Goals

Cite Black Women has five core resolutions:[5][6]

  1. Read the works of Black women;
  2. Integrate Black women into the core of your syllabus (in life and in the classroom);
  3. Acknowledge Black women's intellectual production;
  4. Make space for Black women to speak;
  5. 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

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 1 2 "OUR STORY". Cite Black Women. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Cite Black Women". District of Columbia Public Library. 2018-03-30. Archived from the original on 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
  7. ↑ "'Cite Black Women' campaign gains momentum". Times Higher Education. 2018-01-22. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
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