Jasmine Kelekay

<p><em>My research explores how people of African descent confront what it means to be Black, and how ideas about Blackness are shaped by varying local contexts and intersecting identities. Specifically, I explore the relationship between racialization and criminalization, with a particular focus on constructions of Blackness, the social control of African diasporic populations in transnational perspective, and the ways in which African diasporic people construct and enact counter-hegemomic identities and discourses in resistance to racial oppression.</em></p>