Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (Ph.D., UT-Austin, Anthropology, 2005) specializes in black women’s activism, African diaspora studies, critical race and feminist theories, urban geography and politics, and race relations in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has done research in Mexico, Jamaica, Belize, Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. Her most recent work is an ethnographic study of black women’s activism in Brazilian cities, specifically an examination of black women’s participation and leadership in neighborhood associations and of the re-interpretations of racial and gender identities in urban spaces.