The Politics of Black Identity

Interview with Dr. Camilla Hawthorne Dr. Camilla Hawthorne is a critical human geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist broadly interested in the racial politics of migration and citizenship, inequality, social movements, and Black geographies. Camilla's work sits at the intersection of critical public policy studies, diaspora theory, Black European studies, and postcolonial/feminist science and technology studies. Dr. Camilla Hawthorne received her PhD from the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley in 2018. She currently serve as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. Camilla is a principal faculty member in UCSC's Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program, and an affiliate of the Science & Justice Research Center and the Legal Studies Program. Her teaching is focused on race, immigration and citizenship, political economy, space and inequality, and social theory. Dr. Hawthorne current research explores the politics of Blackness and citizenship in Italy. In this project, she examines the ways in which the Italian-born children of African immigrants have mobilized for a reform of Italian citizenship law in the context of the Eurozone economic crisis and the southern European refugee emergency. Camilla is currently preparing a book manuscript based on this research, which represents the first ever in-depth study of Black youth political mobilizations in Italy. She is also co-editing two edited volumes, one on Black geographic thought, and another on the Black Mediterranean.https://www.camillahawthorne.com/