Andreana Clay

Andreana Clay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research areas are youth of color, LGBTQ identity and sexuality, social movement activism, and popular culture. She specializes in queer theory and feminist ethnography. Her book, The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics (NYU Press, 2012) explores how youth of color organize and identify as activists in the post civil rights era. Her articles on hip-hop culture, queer sexuality, youth activism, and hip-hop feminism have appeared in several anthologies and academic journals, including Home Girls Make Some Noise!: A Hip-Hop Feminist Anthology, the American Behavioral Scientist, and Meridians: A Journal of Race, Feminism, and Transnationalism.

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