Shirley Anne Tate, PhD, MPhil, MA, BEd (Hons)
Pronouns: She/Her/They
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - Sociology Dept
- shirleya@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Cultural Studies Black Feminist Diaspora Studies Institutional Racism Decoloniality The Body Black Aesthetics Race Gender 'Mixed Race'
About
I was born and brought up in Jamaica and I have lived and worked in the UK for most of my adult life. I am bilingual in Jamaican Creole (Patois) and English. My background has impacted my approach to qualitative research, my research interests and what I see as foundational theory in terms of my work. I have been developing Black decolonial feminist thought and Black feminist decolonial approaches to critical cultural analyses over a number of years drawing especially on Caribbean decolonial and Caribbean feminist decolonial thinking. This has emerged over a range of publications including monographs, commissioned book chapters, international distinguished speaker lectures, keynotes and other invitations to speak in the UK, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Finland, South Africa, Brazil and the USA. My publications have been in the areas of intersectional institutional racism, racism, affect, hybridity, creolization, beauty and Black anti-racist aesthetics, 'race' performativity, Black/white mixed-race lives, and the “race”d and gendered body in enslavement and freedom. My international academic leadership on the topic of intersectional institutional racism, decolonization and antiracism in universities spans more than a decade and my thinking on Black decolonial feminist perspectives on Black Cultural Studies has evolved over a number of publications.
I am currently Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality. I am also a Honorary Professor in the Chair in Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa (appointed in July 2018), and Visiting Professor in the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK (appointed July 2019 for 3 years renewable). I was also a Visiting Professor and Member of the Board of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State South Africa (2014-2018), and in November -December 2013 in the Department of International Law and Human Rights (Gender and Peace) at the UN University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica.
Research
My Canada Research Chair 7 year program is 'Decolonization and antiracism in universities in settler colonial states', which is a comparative research project with collaborators in Brazil, South Africa, Sweden, Finland, Canada and the US. https://antiracism-lab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/
My other research area on Black Diaspora Studies focusing on the Black body in enslavement and freedom is ongoing with my most recent monograph being on Black skin, intersectionality, affect and Black decolonial feminism.
I am currently supervising PhD students from the UK and Canada. I am open to PhD applications within my areas of research interest.
Teaching
I currently teach SOC580-A1 Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Globalization and SOC402 B04 Race, Gender and Culture.
Featured Publications
Shirley Anne Tate
Abingdon, Oxon / New York. 2023 December; 10.4324/b23223
Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education. 2023 January; 10.4324/9781003367314-9
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023 January; 10.3390/ijerph20237119
Meridians. 2023 January; 10.1215/15366936-10220447
The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. 2023 January; 10.4324/9781003120612-18
Canadian Review of Sociology. 2022 January; 10.1111/cars.12406
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender. 2022 January; 10.1007/978-3-030-83947-5_1
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect. 2022 January; 10.4324/9781003045007-9
TOPIA. 2022 January; 10.3138/topia-2020-0007
The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics. 2021 January;
Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching While Black. 2021 January;
Colour Matters: Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth. 2021 January;
Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities: Europe and The Caribbean. 2021 January;
Decolonizing Sambo- Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity
Shirley Anne Tate
Bingley, UK. 2020 December;
A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern Age. 2020 January;
Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education. 2020 January; 10.1007/978-3-030-14625-2_21
Decolonising Sambo: Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity. 2019 January; 10.1108/9781789733471
European Journal of Women's Studies. 2018 January; 10.1177/1350506818774744
Ethics and Education. 2018 January; 10.1080/17449642.2018.1428718
Race Ethnicity and Education. 2017 January; 10.1080/13613324.2016.1260227
Bilateral Ecopolitics: Continuity and Change in Canadian-American Environmental Relations. 2017 January; 10.4324/9781315261508
Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics. 2016 January; 10.4324/9781315569444
Decolonizing European Sociology: Transdisciplinary Approaches. 2016 January; 10.4324/9781315576190-20
Ethnicities. 2016 January; 10.1177/1468796814564626
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January;
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_4
Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations. 2015 January;
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters. 2015 January; 10.1007/978-1-137-49846-5
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_7
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_2
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_3
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_8
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_5
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_6
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.1057/9781137355287_1
Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives. 2014 January; 10.1017/CBO9781139015431.015
Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2014 January; 10.1080/01419870.2013.821146
Feminist Theory. 2013 January; 10.1177/1464700113483250
Illness Crisis and Loss. 2013 January; 10.2190/IL.21.3.c
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 2012 January; 10.1080/17442222.2012.658300
Comparative American Studies. 2012 January; 10.1179/1477570012Z.00000000017
European Journal of Women's Studies. 2011 January; 10.1177/13505068110180010703
Decolonizing European Sociology: Transdisciplinary Approaches. 2010 January;
Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics. 2009 January;
Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2007 January; 10.1080/01419870601143992
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. 2007 January;
Community, Work and Family. 2007 January; 10.1080/13668800601110702
Body & Society. 2005 January; 10.1177/1357034X05052462
Thinking Through the Skin. 2003 January; 10.4324/9780203165706-21
International Journal of Bilingualism. 2002 January; 10.1177/13670069020060010501
Journal of Pragmatics. 1986 January; 10.1016/0378-2166(86)90085-8
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