Crystal Marie Fleming

{{short description|American sociologist and author (born 1981)}}

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|alma_mater=Wellesley College (B.A.)
Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.)|thesis_title=Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Everyday Antilleans in Metropolitan France|thesis_url=|thesis_year=2011|doctoral_advisor=Michèle Lamont|workplaces=Stony Brook University|birth_place=Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1981|11|26}}|discipline=Sociology, Africana studies|sub_discipline=Racism, white supremacy}}

Crystal Marie Fleming (born November 26, 1981) is an American sociologist and author. She is full professor of sociology and Africana studies at Stony Brook University. Fleming is the author/editor of four books about race and white supremacy.

Early life and education

Crystal Marie Fleming was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was raised by her mother in a religious environment and her family belonged to a black Pentecostal church.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/crystal-fleming/thisisluv-a-black-bisexua_b_6752374.html|title=#ThisIsLuv: A Black Bisexual Manifesto|last=Fleming|first=Crystal Marie|date=2015-02-25|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-07}}

Fleming graduated in 2004, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and French from Wellesley College. She completed a senior thesis titled Performing Blackness: Symbolic Boundaries and Aesthetic Distinctions among Spoken Word Poets in Boston.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/people/faculty/_pdfs/Fleming_CV%20Dec%202016%20.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae: Crystal Marie Fleming|last=Fleming|first=Crystal Marie|date=2016|website=Stony Brook University|access-date=2018-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108025729/https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/people/faculty/_pdfs/Fleming_CV%20Dec%202016%20.pdf|archive-date=November 8, 2018|url-status=dead}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0w6QwAACAAJ|title=Performing Blackness: Symbolic Boundaries and Aesthetic Distinctions Among Spoken Word Poets in Boston|last=Fleming|first=Crystal Marie|date=2004|publisher=Wellesley College.|language=en}} She obtained a Master of Arts in sociology in 2007 at Harvard University. At the same institution, Fleming earned a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology in 2011. Her dissertation was titled Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Everyday Antilleans in Metropolitan France. Fleming's doctoral advisor was Michèle Lamont.{{Cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/878212557/|title=Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Antillean Migrants in Metropolitan France (1980–2010)|last=Fleming|first=Crystal Marie|date=2011|language=en|id={{ProQuest|878212557}} |access-date=2018-11-07}} She won the 2012 Georges Lavau Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association for an English-language dissertation on French politics.{{Cite journal|date=2012|title=Back Matter|journal=French Politics, Culture & Society|volume=30|issue=3|issn=1537-6370|jstor=42843781}}

Career

Fleming is Full Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She was previously a visiting professor at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2015. She is the author of two books: Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France and How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide.{{Cite news|url=https://wjla.com/features/good-morning-washington/crystal-marie-fleming-on-how-to-be-less-stupid-about-race|title=Crystal Marie Fleming on 'How to Be Less Stupid About Race'|date=2018-11-07|work=WJLA|access-date=2018-11-07|language=en-US|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112194618/https://wjla.com/features/good-morning-washington/crystal-marie-fleming-on-how-to-be-less-stupid-about-race|url-status=dead}}

Personal life

Fleming identifies as bisexual and queer.

Selected works

{{Cite book|title=Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France|last=Fleming|first=Crystal Marie|date=2017|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=9781439914090|language=en}}Reviews of Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France:
{{Cite journal|last=Beaman|first=Jean|s2cid=165480859|date=2018-08-06|title=none|journal=Sociology of Race and Ethnicity|language=en|volume=4|issue=4|pages=593–594|doi=10.1177/2332649218793649|issn=2332-6492}}
{{Cite journal|last=Matlon|first=Jordanna|s2cid=150018542|date=2018-04-25|title=none|journal=Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews|language=en|volume=47|issue=3|pages=320–322|doi=10.1177/0094306118767651q|issn=0094-3061}}
{{Cite journal|last=Moutselos|first=Michalis|date=2018|title=none|journal=Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism|language=en|volume=18|issue=1|pages=80–81|doi=10.1111/sena.12267|issn=1473-8481}}
{{citation|last=McDonogh|first=G.W.|title=Review|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1940862056/|magazine=Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries|volume=55|issue=1|pages=123}}

{{Cite book|title=How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide|last=Fleming|first=Crystal Marie|date=2018|publisher=Beacon Press|isbn=9780807050781|language=en}}Reviews of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide:
{{citation|title=Review|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780807050774|magazine=Publishers Weekly}}
{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2018/10/25/turning-despair-over-election-into-book/vJxQW6lchOP8Et1Jy882kK/story.html|title=Turning despair over 2016 election into a book |last=Tuttle|first=Kate|date=2018-10-26|work=Boston Globe|access-date=2018-11-07}}
{{Cite news|url=https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/heres-less-stupid-racism-america-fight/|title=Here's how to be less stupid about racism in America– and how to fight it|last=Ganeva|first=Tana|date=2018-10-22|work=The Raw Story|access-date=2018-11-07|language=en-US}}
{{citation|title=Review|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/crystal-m-fleming/how-to-be-less-stupid-about-race/|magazine=Kirkus Reviews}}
{{Cite book|last=Fleming|first=Crystal Marie|title=Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy|date=2021|publisher=Henry Holt and Company (BYR)|isbn=978-1-250-22638-9|language=en}}