
- bboateng@ucsd.edu
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9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla , California 92093
Associate Professor
Dr. Boateng’s research interests include Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Transnational Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, and African Diaspora Studies.
In her book, The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana, she examines the ways that intellectual property law converges with histories of subjugation along lines of nation, gender and race to produce and regulate both subjects and knowledge. She argues that the status of different kinds of knowledge and culture within the law is a function not only of their inherent qualities but also of their location in such histories. In addition, she examines devalued conceptions of knowledge and subjectivity as resources for challenging and critically rethinking intellectual property law.
Her current research is along two main trajectories. In the first, she examines race, gender and authorship in U.S. quilting. In the second, she considers ways in which the indigeneities of Black people in Africa and the diaspora can be understood in relation to each other.
Ph.D. in Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002)
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