Education:
B.A., Seton Hall University;
M.A., Ph.D., The University of Georgia
Cherise A. Harris
Assistant Professor of Sociology
On Sabbatical Spring 2012
Joined Connecticut College: 2009
Specializations:
- Race, class and gender
- Marriage and the family
- Social psychology
Cherise Harris joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2009 as an assistant professor of sociology.
She is working on the completion of her manuscript, The Costs of Upward Mobility: Growing Up Black Middle-Class." She has another book manuscript in progress, "Questioning Conventional Wisdom About Race."
She teaches the following courses at Connecticut College: Introduction to Sociology; Race, Gender, and the Mass Media; Ethnic and Race Relations; Sociology of Inequality, and Middle Class Minorities.
Some recent articles and book chapters by Harris include:
- Harris, Cherise A. and Nikki Khanna. "Black Is, Black Ain't: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Social Construction of Blackness." Sociological Spectrum 30: 1-32. 2010.
- Khanna, Nikki and Cherise A. Harris. "Teaching Race as a Social Construct: Two Interactive Class Exercises." Teaching Sociology 37, 4: 369-378. 2009.
- Harris, Cherise A. and Kerry Ann Rockquemore. "Multicultural Perspectives of Self and Racial/ Ethnic Identity." pages 243-278 in Adolescence: Development During a Global Era, edited by Margaret Beale Spencer, Dena Phillips Swanson, and Malik C. Edwards. 2010.
Some recent presentations include:
- Harris, Cherise A. and Keisha Edwards Tassie. "Tyler Perry's Black Middle Class." The Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, Georgia. 2010.
- Harris, Cherise A. and Keisha Edwards Tassie. "Tyler Perry's Depiction of Middle-Class Blacks: A Sociological Perspective." The Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois. 2010.
- Harris, Cherise A. and Nikki Khanna. "Black Is, Black Ain't: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Meaning of 'The Black Community.' " The Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. 2009.
- Harris, Cherise A. "Is Cultural Capital Always Positive?: Black Middle-Class Children and the Weight of Assimilation." The Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, Virginia. 2008.
Cherise Harris has delivered invited lectures, including most recently:
- "The Love and Trouble Tradition: Black Male-Female Relationships." 2009 Keynote Speaker, Loyola University- Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
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