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Shaneda Destine

Assistant Professor

Dr. Shaneda Destine is an Assistant Professor with a dual appointment in Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Destine’s research focus is race, gender, sexuality, and social movements. Prior to being at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Destine was a lecturer at Iowa State University and a graduate of Howard University where she studied racial inequality and medical sociology.

Her current project: Maude’s Grand: ‘Quilting in the Black’ with Black Land Stewards in Colleton County, South Carolina tells an intimate story of Black land ownership through a familial context. It utilizes methods of critical auto ethnography, ethnographic research methodologies and archival research to contextualize the Black land cooperatives, mixed raced alliances that help to build up the postbellum south. “Quilting in the Black” is a theoretical conceptualization she uses to uncover strategies of Black people building cooperatives, foodways, and building infrastructure for their community, as they contended with dispossession and precarity, during the Reconstruction era. This project gives us a more complicated understanding of how to delve into the makings of Black social movement organizing (BSMO), while contending with the dispossession of Black land, indigenous land and the gendered and racialize ways that it converges. Already, this work has been funded by University of Tennessee’s Denbo Humanities Faculty Fellowship. Dr. Destine was a finalist for the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in 2024. Also, her manuscript is under review at multiple major university presses.

Interest Area

Race, Class, and Gender; Black Social Movements; Intersectionality; Critical Race and Political Economy

Courses

  • SOCI 460: Capitalism and Racism
  • SOCI 616: Intersectionality
  • AFST 450: Issues/Topics Afr-Am Studies
  • AFST 435: North America and the Diaspora
  • AFST 510: Special Topics
    (Graduate seminar: Historical Black social movements to the present)
  • SOCI 466: SpTp: Issues in Race/Ethnicity
    (Topics include: contemporary Black social movements, reproductive justice, and criminal justice)

Past courses include: Introduction to Sociology, College Career Advancement, Introduction to African and African American Studies, Women of Color, Sociology of Class and Inequality.

Publications

  • Destine, Shaneda. September 2024 “Centering The Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors & Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives.” Sociology Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214241275194.
  • Destine, Shaneda, Enkeshi El-Amin, Michelle Brown (Eds.). September 2023.“Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety: Toward a Conceptualization of Black Safety in the Movement for Black Lives.” Special Issue Black Safety: Social Justice Journal: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order.
  • Destine, Shaneda. April 2023. “The Movement for Black Lives Legal Challenges in Leading A Global Intersectional Movement.” Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_socopubs/98/.
  • Destine, Shaneda. February 2023. “The Interior of the Movement for Black Lives: ‘A New Political Generation.” Gender & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08912432231157637
  • Destine, Shaneda, Jazzmine Brooks, Christopher Rogers. December 2020. “Covid-19, Black Maternal Mortality and the Crisis of Care.” Special Issue: Feminist Analysis of COVID-19.Feminist Studies Journal 46 (3): 603-614. doi:10.1353/fem.2020.0039.
    *published with graduate students.
  • Destine, Shaneda.  November 2020. “From a Hashtag to a Movement: Black Women Movement Actors’ Challenges to Leading a Radical Movement in a “Post-Racial America.” Humanity and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620969755.
  • Destine, Shaneda. Published October 2019.“#ReclaimingMyTime: Black Women Movement Actors’ Experiences with Intra-Movement Conflicts and the Case for a Transformative Healing Justice Model.” Societies without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences 1(13):1-21. https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol13/iss1/5/
  • Destine, Shaneda and Walda Katz-Fishman. July 2017. “A Critical Pedagogy with College and High School Students in St. Louis Post-Mike Brown.”  Humanity & Society 41 (3):1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597617716964