Faculty Forum with Andrea Baldwin
In this episode, Andrea Baldwin shares a bit about how we might consider the concept of brackishness and how it might connect with Black aliveness. She talks about how this brackishness exists as an in-between space between saltwater and freshwater. She then uses this ecological concept can inform Black feminism.
Dr. Andrea Baldwin is an assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana studies in the Sociology Department at Virginia Tech. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus Barbados in 2013 with a thesis entitled, Investigating Power in the Anglophone Caribbean Middle Class: Ideologies and Love as Power – Barbados as a Case Study. She is also an attorney-at-law who also holds an MSc. in International trade policy and her research interests include Black and transnational feminist epistemology, theorizing pedagogy as a form of feminist activism, care in Black communities, and Caribbean cultural studies.
