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Manoucheka Celeste
Associate Professor in the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research and African American Studies Program
University of Florida
Education/Degree:
1 Communication (University of Washington)
About
Manoucheka Celeste is an associate professor at the University of Florida with a joint appointment at Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research and the African American Studies Program. Her most recent publications include her first book Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness (Winner of the 2018 National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award), and "'What Now': The Wailing Black Woman, Grief, and Difference" in Black Camera. She holds a PhD in communication and graduate certificate in feminist studies from the University of Washington.
Current Work
Dr. Celeste is currently working on a second book project, “The Wailing Black Woman: Interrupting Narratives of Life, Death, and Citizenship in Media and the Public Sphere,” where she centers black women to examine media portrayals of black life, death and notions of criminality, and explores the implications of such representations.