Authors’ Spotlight Featuring Dr. Karida Brown, Charly Palmer, Juliet Hooker, and Fatimah Gilliam
In this episode, we spotlight three books and their authors: Dr. Karida Brown & Charly Palmer of the New Brownies’ Book; Professor Juliet Hooker of Black Grief/White Grievance; and Fatimah Gilliam of Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erik-fleming1/support
Dr. Karida Brown
Sociologist/ Oral Historian/ Public Intellectual/ Professor/ Author
Karida L. Brown is a sociologist, professor, oral historian, and public intellectual whose research centers on the ontologies of systemic racism and the fullness of Black life. An educator, public speaker, author, and humanist, she is known for empowering her readership, students, and organizations to be active participants in driving equity and justice. Dr. Brown's body of work combines her expertise in data-driven social science research, her vast experience in navigating complex global organizations, and her love of the arts. These insights bring actionable and reparative knowledge to the public.
Dr. Brown graduated from Uniondale High School in Long Island, New York and attended Temple University in Philadelphia, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in risk management and insurance. After a six-year career in the commercial insurance industry, Brown returned to school, and subsequently earned a master’s in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University.
She is a Professor of Sociology at Emory University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on race and racism, sports and society, and historical archival methods. In addition to her books, her research is published in various peer-reviewed academic journals such as the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Southern Cultures, and The Du Bois Review. Dr. Brown is a Fulbright Scholar, and her international research has been supported by national foundations such as the Andrew W. Mellon Found… Read More
Fatimah Gilliam
Attorney
Fatimah Gilliam, Esq. is an author, lawyer, consultant, public
speaker, and entrepreneur whose career combines expertise in
the law, diversity, human capital, leadership, stakeholder
engagement, and negotiations. She holds a law degree from
Columbia Law School, a master in public policy from Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and an
undergraduate degree from Wellesley College.
Gilliam is the founder and CEO of The Azara Group, which
provides diversity and inclusion, leadership development,
negotiation, and strategy consulting services to Fortune 500
corporations, senior executives of billion-dollar businesses, and
industry thought leaders. She has previously been featured in
media including CNBC’s Power Lunch, NPR’s The Brian Lehrer
Show, Insider, and Yahoo! Finance.
Gilliam is a Black woman whose family has been in the United
States for nearly 400 years and fought in every American war,
including the American Revolution and Civil War. She is a volunteer attorney for Election
Protection and previously monitored vote counting in Florida.
She began her career as a corporate attorney on Wall Street at Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP, worked for Citigroup overseeing campus diversity recruiting for all its U.S.
businesses, and oversaw corporate partnerships as the Head of Finance and Fundraising for
North America for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme.
Gilliam loves dancing, photography, bike riding, and swimming and has participated in several
Juliet Hooker
Juliet Hooker is Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science. She is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, Black political thought, Latin American political thought, democratic theory, and contemporary political theory. She has also written on racism and Afro-descendant and indigenous politics in Latin America. Before coming to Brown, she was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Princeton University Press, 2023), Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford, 2017), Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009), and editor of Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash (Lexington Books, 2020). Theorizing Race in the Americas was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Ralph Bunche Book Award for the best work in ethnic and cultural pluralism and the 2018 Best Book Award of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Prof. Hooker served as co-Chair of the American Political Science Association’s Presidential Task Force on Racial and Social Class Inequalities in the Americas (2014-2015), and as Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2009-2014). She has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the DuBois Institut… Read More
