- Source: Gina Dent
Gina Dent is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. She co authored the 2022 book Abolition. Feminism. Now. with her partner, Angela Davis; Erica Meiners; and Beth Richie.
Education
Dent received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
Career
Dent is currently an associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies in the humanities division at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2019, she received a Dizikes Award for teaching.
Her research interests include Africana studies, legal theory, and popular culture. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture (1992). This collection was named a Village Voice Best Book of the Year. In 2011, Dent served in a delegation to Palestine, and she advocates for human rights in the region. She is sought-after internationally as a speaker and educator on Black Feminism and abolitionism.
She has two forthcoming books, Prison as a Border and Other Essays, and Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology, which will be published by Duke University Press. Dent co authored the 2022 book Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie, which argues for a prison abolitionist vision of feminism.
Personal life
As of 2020, Dent was living with her partner, feminist scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis. Together, they have advocated for the abolition of police and prisons, using the concept of abolition feminism.
Bibliography
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Editor, Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1992; New York: New Press, 1999. ISBN 9780941920247
“Michael Joo,” in Elaine Kim and Margo Machida, eds., Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian American Issues in the Contemporary Visual Arts. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003
Co-author with mentor Angela Y. Davis, “Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization and Punishment,” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture, Vol. 26 No. 4; Summer, 2001.
“A New York Story,” catalogue essay for the exhibition Inclusion/Exclusion. Graz, Austria. 1997.
Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, (eds) “Rita Dove” and “Jamaica Kincaid” (literary biographies) in Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, New York: Macmillan Library Reference. 1996.
“Missionary Position” in Rebecca Walker, ed., To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor/Doubleday. 1995.
“Race and Racism: A Symposium,” Social Text. Vol. 42. Spring, 1995
Davis, Angela Y. (2022). Abolition. Feminism. Now. Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth Richie. Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-1-64259-396-9. OCLC 1144102232.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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