Antonia Randolph
Assistant Professor, American Studies
Education
BA, Spelman College (Sociology) (1996)
PhD, Northwestern University (Sociology) (2006)
Research Interests
Antonia Randolph is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her interests include diversity discourse in education, affect theory, Black feminist thought, non-normative Black masculinity and sexuality, and the production of misogyny in hip-hop culture. Her book The Wrong Kind of Different: Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms (Teachers College 2012) examined the hierarchies elementary school teachers constructed among students of color. She has also published in QED, The Journal of African American Studies, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and The Feminist Wire. Her current book project, That’s My Heart: Queering Intimacy in Hip-Hop Culture, which is under contract with University of California Press, examines portrayals of Black men’s intimate relationships in hip-hop culture.