Michael Hanson

Assistant Professor

mhanson@weber.ucsd.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2002

Research

Popular Music; Race, Representation and the Media; Black Cultural Politics; Race and Racism; Sport; Afrofuturism; Cultural Theory

Publications

Soulsonic Forces: Aural Cartographies of Post Civil Rights Black Political Culture (book manuscript in preparation)

“Twoness: The Mixed Raced Black Body in Scopic Regimes,” Body & Society (forthcoming).

“Suppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis” Popular Music (v 27:3 Fall 2008).

“I’m A Brother, But Sometimes I Don’t Feel Black: Thug-Nerds, Rap-Geeks, and the Risky Black Masculine” in Amber Wallace and Anna Everett (eds) AfroGEEKS: From Technophobia to Technophilia (Santa Barbara: Center of Black Studies/Ford Foundation, 2006).

“Asphalt Stages: Street Basketball and the Performance of Blackness” in Ruth Simms Hamilton (ed) Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006).

Courses

Race and Racism
The Cultural Politics of Sport
Popular Music, Social Practice and Cultural Politics
Popular Culture: Poetics, Politics, Practices
Race and Representation
Black Popular Music
Race and Racism (Graduate Seminar)
The Cultural Politics of Music and Sound (Graduate Seminar)
Cultural Theory (Graduate Seminar)