Amanda Martinez Morrison teaches Ethnic Studies at Solano College in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2010, she completed her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include racial justice and educational equity, popular and public culture, Latina/o and Chicana/o identity, music, and youth subcultures. She is a Ford Foundation fellow and a recipient of the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork grant, which generously supported her research project, “Freaks of the Industry: Peculiarities of Race and Place in Bay Area Hip-Hop.” Amanda has also contributed articles on music and the arts to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Austin American-Statesman. Before beginning graduate studies, she served for four years as editor at the online city guide, Citysearch.com, in San Francisco.
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Visiting Professor (Spring 2016)
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Folklore
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