Writing
I write as a freelancer, as well as an academic. Below you will find a selection of my mainstream and academic publications.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023
Moffett-Bateau, Alex J. “This racist US housing policy that tried to fix poverty is a massive failure.” The Guardian: U.S. Edition. Washington D.C. theguardian.org. Friday September 15, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/failed-housing-policy-poverty
Moffett-Bateau, Alex J. “Strategies of Resistance in the Everyday: The Political Approaches of Black Women Living in a Public Housing Development in Chicago.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. September 11, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2023.2248858. [Preprint available at SSRN]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464643.
Moffett-Bateau, Alex J. “The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line.” Urban Affairs Forum. April 2023. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/i-cant-vote-if-i-dont-leave-my-apartment
Moffett-Bateau, Alex J. “‘I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment’: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line.” Urban Affairs Review. March 28, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874231162930. [Preprint available at SSRN]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4461584🥸
2020 – 2022
Moffett-Bateau, Alex J., and Jenn M. Jackson. “Moving Beyond Niceness: Reading bell hooks into the Radical Potential for the Discipline.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. Vol. 43, Issue 3, May 18, 2022. pp. 409-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2022.2075681. [Preprint available at SSRN]: https://papers.ssrn.com/61601
Moffett-Bateau, Alexandra J. “The Violence in Ferguson is More Than Physical.” The Echoing Ida Collection. Greenlee, Cynthia R., Alabi, Kemi, and Janna A. Zinzi (eds). New York City: The Feminist Press at CUNY. 2021. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/90/edited_volume/chapter/3020892. [Preprint available at SSRN]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464656
Moffett-Bateau, Alexandra J. “Equal Pay Day for (Some) African-American Women.” The Echoing Ida Collection. Greenlee, Cynthia R., Alabi, Kemi, and Janna A. Zinzi (eds). New York City: The Feminist Press at CUNY. 2021. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/90/edited_volume/chapter/3020897. [Preprint available at SSRN]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464661
Past – 2020
Moffett-Bateau, Alexandra J. “Feminist Erasure: The Development of a Black Feminist Methodological Theory.” Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture. Silva, K. and Mendes, K. (eds.) Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 2015. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137454928_4. [Preprint available at SSRN]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4461603.
Moffett-Bateau, Alexandra J. “Beyond the Politics of Voting.” The Feminist Wire. April 2014. https://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/04/politics-of-voting
Moffett-Bateau, Alexandra J. “Chronic Pain and the Denial of Care for Black Women.” Rewire News Group. March 2014. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2014/03/04/chronic-pain-denial-care-black-women/
Moffett-Bateau, Alexandra J. “It’s Time to Rethink Black History Month.” Rewire News Group. February 2014. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2014/02/26/time-rethink-black-history-month/
Forthcoming
Moffett-Bateau, Alex J. Redefining the Political: Black Women Living Below the Poverty Line in Chicago, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Everyday Life. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, forthcoming. 2024.
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