Name:
Amie Breeze Harper
E-mail:
harper2@fas.harvard.edu
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Birthday: 30 May, 1976
Bio: Overall, my career interests lie in black feminist studies and anti-racist/anti-prejudiced education and investigating institutional prejudices that are indoctrinated within USA systems of learning/education. I am particularly interested in the intersections of ecology, socio-political beliefs, health and foodways among Black females.
Currently, I am a Masters student at Harvard University EXT. My current Masters thesis will investigate: What are the challenges that Black female vegans using vegan-based health activism face when using cyberspace to promote and network around vegan based health advocacy and awareness, particularly for the Black community? Specifically, I am investigating how this demographic uses a dietary philosophy to resist institutionalized oppression and/or combat the "health crisis" within the Black community. I will connect my thesis work to my most recent anthology project: Sistah Vegan! Food, Health, Identity, and Society: Female Vegans of the African Diaspora Sistah Vegan will weave together stories, poetry and critical essays by Black identified female vegans. This particular demographic is solely invited to share their voices because my research largely focuses on Black female developmental wellness.
My other anthology project is called Reflections of the N-Word: A Black Female Anthology. Reflections of the N-Word will look at the psychological effects of the n-word on Black Females.
The last project I just completed is a fiction novel, Sticks and Stones that I have written and am in the midst of preparing for publication. The prose focuses on the intersectionality of race, class, sexuality, rural geography, and perceptions of "White Privilege" within the adolescent identity development of a Black teenage lesbian female named Savannah Sales and how she perceives racism's effect on her life.
The works I have largely developed my critical consciousness from are by: bell hooks, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, June Jordan, Maya Angelou, Edward Said, Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm, Audre Lorde, Tim Wise, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Nina Simone, Angela Davis, Derrick Jensen, Janie Ward, Lorraine Hansberry, and Arundhati Roy.
I earned a B.A. in Feminist Geography from Dartmouth College , focusing on Sexuality Identity Development in Rural spaces in 1998.
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