Maxine Leeds Craig is a professor in the sociology department at the University of California, Davis (USA).[1]

Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race (2002).[2] Her second book, Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move (2013), was awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award of the American Sociological Association's section on Body and Embodiment.[3]

She was chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class for 2009–2010.[4]

Publications

  • Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0195152623.[5]
  • Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse To Move. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0199845293.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Maxine Craig". People. UC Davis Sociology. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  2. ↑ Smith, Richard Cándida; Wilmot, Nadine (2002–2003). "An oral history with Troy Duster" (PDF). Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. See in particular pp. 19, 177, 178.
  3. ↑ "Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award". American Sociological Association. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  4. ↑ "Prior Officers". Section on Race, Gender, and Class. American Sociological Association. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  5. ↑ Reviews of Ain't I A Beauty Queen?:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Sorry I Don't Dance:
    • Jones, Emily Morrow (2014). Social Thought & Research. 33: 179–181. JSTOR 44807712.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • de Oca, Jeffrey Montez (September 2014). The Social Science Journal. 51 (3): 493–494. doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2014.06.008. S2CID 217473846.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bielby, Denise (December 2014). Social Forces. 94 (4): e105. doi:10.1093/sf/sou124.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Cserni, Robert T. (January 2015). Men and Masculinities. 18 (3): 394–395. doi:10.1177/1097184x14568525. S2CID 144426521.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hancock, Black Hawk (May 2015). American Journal of Sociology. 120 (6): 1889–1890. doi:10.1086/680512. JSTOR 10.1086/680512.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Contemporary Sociology. 44 (4): 577. July 2015. JSTOR 43996468.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Barber, Kristen (February 2016). Gender and Society. 30 (1): 149–151. doi:10.1177/0891243214563072. JSTOR 24756175. S2CID 143475411.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)


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