Mireille Miller-Young

Miller-Young's 2004 thesis, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography, examines the history of black women in pornography with ethnographic methods.{{Cite journal |last=Harris |first=LaShawn |date=2016 |title=Review of A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography, by Mireille Miller-Young |journal=Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=174–176 |doi=10.1080/10999949.2016.1162606 |s2cid=148300062}}{{cite book |last=Decena |first=Carlos Ulises |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHAk4VWjjJsC&q=mireille |title=Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men |date=2011 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-4945-7 |pages=274}} The dissertation was published as a book in 2014, which was well-received.{{Cite journal |last=Stallings |first=L. H. |date=2015-06-05 |title=A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography by Mireille Miller-Young, and: The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography by Jennifer Nash (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/583187 |journal=Black Camera |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=239–244 |doi=10.2979/blackcamera.6.2.239 |issn=1947-4237|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |last=Hobson |first=Janell |date=2015-02-03 |title=Black Women's Histories: A Conversation with Mireille Miller-Young |url=https://msmagazine.com/2015/02/03/black-womens-histories-a-conversation-with-mireille-miller-young/ |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=Ms. Magazine |language=en-US}} It has been described as a "must-read" building on the work of feminist scholars such as Angela Davis, Saidiya Hartman, and Celine Parreñas Shimizu.{{Cite journal |last=Lamstein |first=Joanna |date=2017 |title=A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |volume=65 |issue=13 |pages=1937–1938 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2017.1386028 |s2cid=2263758}}

In 2015, It won the National Women's Studies Association Sara A. Whaley Book Prize and American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize.{{Cite web |title=Past Book Award Recipients |url=https://www.nwsa.org/awards-scholarships/book-awards/past-book-award-recipients |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=National Women's Studies Association}}{{Cite web |title=John Hope Franklin Prize |url=https://www.theasa.net/node/134 |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=ASA}}

Miller-Young is an associate professor of feminist studies and an affiliate professor in film and media studies, Black studies, history, and comparative literature at University of California, Santa Barbara. She was the Advancing Equity Through Research Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University from 2019 to 2020 and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin from 2020 to 2021.{{Cite web |title=Miller-Young |url=https://www.ici-berlin.org/people/miller-young/ |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=ICI Berlin |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Seventh Class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows |url=https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/2019-2020-Fellows-Announcement |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}}

Her current projects include the Black Erotic Archive project and the Sex Worker Oral History Project.

In 2014, Miller-Young was charged with misdemeanor battery, grand theft, and vandalism for stealing a sign from a pair of teenage anti-abortion demonstrators on the University of California Santa Barbara campus, pushing them when they followed her, and destroying the sign. In her interview with police, Miller-Young said she had a "moral right" to remove the material from sight.{{cite web |last=Hayden |first=Taylor |date=March 21, 2014 |title=UCSB Professor Charged with Theft and Battery |url=https://www.independent.com/2014/03/21/ucsb-professor-charged-theft-and-battery/ |accessdate=2018-05-03 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent}} She pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 108 hours of community service and three years of probation. She was also ordered to pay restitution and attend anger management classes.{{cite web | url = http://dailynexus.com/2014-08-27/court-rules-on-miller-young-case/ | accessdate = 2018-05-03 | last = Lewis | first = Loree | date = August 27, 2014 | website = The Daily Nexus | title = Court Rules on Miller-Young Case }}{{cite web | url = https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/18854/ | accessdate = 2018-05-03 | last = Kabbany | first = Jennifer | title = Feminist Professor Who Attacked Prolife Teen Avoids Jail Time | date = August 18, 2014 | website = The College Fix }}

The case attracted widespread attention.{{cite web | url = http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/04/01/improper-attachments-anti-abortion-posters-belong/ | last = Cooper | first = Davina | title = Improper attachments, or who do anti-abortion posters belong to? | date = April 1, 2004 | accessdate = 2018-05-08 | website = Critical Legal Thinking }}{{cite web | url = http://thefeministwire.com/2014/03/mireille-miller-young-standing-with/ | last = Gilmore | first = Stefanie | title = Why I Am In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young | date = March 20, 2014 | accessdate = 2018-05-08 | website = Feminist Wire }}{{cite web | url = https://reason.com/archives/2014/05/30/when-the-left-turned-against-f | last = Welch | first = Matt | website = Reason | title = When the Left Turned Against Free Speech | date = June 2014 | accessdate = 2018-05-08 }}{{cite web |last=Abcarian |first=Robin |date=March 31, 2014 |title=The liberal professor who stepped right into an anti-abortion trap |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-the-liberal-professor-antiabortion-trap-20140331-story.html |accessdate=2018-05-03 |website=Los Angeles Times}} The UCSB Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Michael Young, published a letter on the incident that was interpreted as a rebuke to both sides involved in the altercation. More than 30 professors from universities across the nation signed a letter of support for Miller-Young.

• {{cite book |editor-last1=Miller-Young |editor-first1=Mireille |editor-last2=Penley |editor-first2=Constanze |editor-last3=Parreñas Shimizu |editor-first3=Celine |editor-last4=Taormino |editor-first4=Tristan |editor-mask=With |title=The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure |publisher=The Feminist Press at CUNY |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-5586-1818-3}}
• {{cite book |author-last=Miller-Young |author-first=Mireille |title=A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography |publisher=Duke University Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-8223-5814-5 |doi=10.1515/9780822375913-001}}
• {{cite book

| author-last = Miller-Young

| author-first = Mireille

| author-mask = 1

| contribution = Let Me Tell Ya 'Bout Black Chicks: Interracial Desire and Black Women in 1980s Video Pornography

| editor-last1 = Nikunen

| editor-first1 = Kaarina

| editor-last2 = Paasonen

| editor-first2 = Susanna

| editor-last3 = Saarenmaa

| editor-first3 = Laura

| title = Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture

| publisher = Berg Publishers

| date = 2007

| isbn = 978-1-8452-0704-5

}}

• {{cite book

| author-last = Miller-Young

| author-first = Mireille

| author-mask = 1

| contribution = Sexy and Smart: Black Women and the Politics of Self-Authorship in Netporn

| editor-last1 = Jacobs

| editor-first1 = Katrien

| editor-last2 = Jansen

| editor-first2 = Mariej

| editor-last3 = Pasquinelli

| editor-first3 = Matteo

| title = C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader

| publisher = Paradiso

| date = 2007

| isbn = 978-90-78146-03-2

| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239583086

}}

• {{cite journal

| author-last = Miller-Young

| author-first = Mireille

| title = Black Tale: Women of Color in the American Porn Industry

| journal = $pread

| issue = 1

| date = 2005

| volume = 1

}}

• {{cite journal

| author-last = Miller-Young

| author-first = Mireille

| author-mask = 1

| title = Hardcore desire

| journal = ColorLines

| volume = Winter 2005 − 2006

| issue = 3

| date = 2005

| pages = 1–35

}}

• {{cite journal

| author-last = Miller-Young

| author-first = Mireille

| author-mask = 1

| title = Hip-Hop Honeys and Da Hustlaz: Black Sexualities in the New Hip-Hop Pornography

| journal = Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism

| volume = 8

| issue = 1

| date = 2007

| pages = 261–292

| doi = 10.2979/mer.2007.8.1.261

}}

• {{cite journal

| author-last = Miller-Young

| author-first = Mireille

| author-mask = 1

| title = Putting Hypersexuality to Work: Black Women and Illicit Eroticism in Pornography

| journal = Sexualities

| volume = 13

| issue = 2

| date = 2010

| pages = 219–235

| doi = 10.1177/1363460709359229

| s2cid = 143676229

}}

• National Women's Studies Association Sarah A. Whaley Book Prizee, 2015
• American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, 2015{{cite web| last = Estrade | first = Andrea | title = Award Winner: Book by feminist studies scholar Mireille Miller-Young garners two major prizes | url = http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/016216/award-winner | website = UCSB | date = 3 December 2015 | accessdate=2018-05-03 }}
• Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019{{Cite web |last=Estrada |first=Andrea |date=2019-05-01 |title=For Excellence in Teaching: Faculty members and graduate students receive Academic Senate teaching awards |url=https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019455/excellence-teaching |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=The UCSB Current |language=en}}

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• [https://www.mireillemilleryoung.com/ Official website]
• [https://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/mireille-miller-young UCSB faculty page]

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