Dr Seuss wrote: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
I’ve decided to share some (just some) readings I’ve found especially powerful during my PhD, breaking up along the lines of theory and praxis. I’ve also tried not to select the most well-known of works (although some key pieces are always needed)!
Intersectionality
- Collins, P. H., & Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality. Polity Press.
- Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241.
- Kobayashi, A., & Peake, L. (1994). Unnatural discourse. “Race” and gender in geography. Gender, Place & Culture, 1(2), 225–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/09663699408721211
Biopower
- Inda, J. X. (2002). Biopower, reproduction, and the migrant woman’s body. Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century, 98–112.
- Rabinow, P., & Rose, N. (2006). Biopower Today. BioSocieties, 1(2), 195–217. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1745855206040014
- Stoler, A. L. (2002). A Colonial Reading of Foucault. Bourgeois Bodies and Radical Selves. Stoler, Ann Laura: Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power. Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley, 140–161.
Science & Equity
- Benjamin, R. (2016). Innovating inequity: if race is a technology, postracialism is the genius bar. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(13), 2227–2234. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2016.1202423
- Bliss, C. (2013). The Marketization of Identity Politics. Sociology, 47(5), 1011–1025. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513495604
- Conley, D., & Fletcher, J. (2017). The Genome Factor. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
- Roberts, D. E. (2015). The Politics of Race and Science: Conservative Colorblindness and the Limits of Liberal Critique. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 12(1), 199–211. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X15000041
- Roberts, D. E. (1997). Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (6th ed.). New York: Pantheon Books.
