Shirley Anne Tate

{{Short description|Jamaican sociologist, scholar and professor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Shirley Anne Tate

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}}

| birth_place = Spanish Town, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica

| alma_mater = University of York,
Lancaster University

| known_for = Sociologist, scholar, professor, author, researcher

}}

Shirley Anne Tate (born March 1956) is a Jamaican sociologist, scholar, researcher, educator, and author.{{Cite web|date=30 May 2021|title=What Does It Mean to "Flinch from Black Touch?" Dr. Shirley Anne Tate Speaks on Racism in Our Academic Institutions in Big Thinking Session|url=http://www.ideas-idees.ca/blog/what-does-it-mean-flinch-black-touch-dr-shirley-anne-tate-speaks-racism-our-academic|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences|language=en}} She is known for her work in studying racism, the Black diaspora and the intersection with feminism; specifically within institutional racism, mixed race studies, and Black identity.{{Cite web|date=2019|title=In conversation with Prof Shirley Anne Tate|url=http://sites.uea.ac.uk/black-female-intellectuals/events/-/asset_publisher/XPse1WN9tID3/content/in-conversation-with-prof-shirley-anne-tate-27th-january-4-6pm?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=http://sites.uea.ac.uk/black-female-intellectuals/events?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_XPse1WN9tID3&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-4&p_p_col_count=1|access-date=2021-06-12|website=University of East Anglia}}{{Cite web|date=October 2020|title=Black HERstory Talk featuring Prof Shirley Anne Tate|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/whatson/event/?eventno=48155|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Durham University}}{{Cite book|last=Joseph-Salisbury|first=Remi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_tlDwAAQBAJ|title=Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience|date=6 August 2018|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing|isbn=978-1-78756-531-9|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=10 April 2009|title=Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Black Beauty|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2009_14_fri.shtml|access-date=2021-06-12|website=BBC}}

Tate holds the Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Intersectionality in the Sociology Department of the University of Alberta, starting in 2019.{{Cite web|date=6 March 2019|title=BBA Patron Prof Shirley Anne Tate to take up new post in Canada|url=https://blackbritishacademics.co.uk/2019/03/06/bba-patron-prof-shirley-anne-tate-to-take-up-new-post-in-canada/|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Black British Academics|language=en-GB}} She has additionally taught at Leeds Beckett University, from 2017 to 2019; and at University of Leeds, from 2012 to 2017.{{Cite book|last1=Elias|first1=Ana Sofia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w2f1DQAAQBAJ|title=Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism|last2=Gill|first2=Rosalind|last3=Scharff|first3=Christina|date=18 January 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-137-47765-1|pages=XXII|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Crul|first1=Maurice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjvqDwAAQBAJ|title=Scholarly Engagement and Decolonisation: Views from South Africa, The Netherlands, and the United States|last2=Dick|first2=Liezl|last3=Ghorashi|first3=Halleh|last4=Jr|first4=Abel Valenzuela|date=9 June 2020|publisher=African Sun Media|isbn=978-1-928314-57-8|pages=IX|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=17 September 2020|title=Britain's Black female professors take centre stage in a new exhibition|url=https://melanmag.com/2020/09/17/britains-black-female-professors-take-centre-stage-in-a-new-exhibition/|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Melan Magazine|language=en-GB}}