Dr. Jasmine Mitchell

Dr. Jasmine Mitchell is Associate Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the State University of New York-Old Westbury. She is an affiliated faculty member of African American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She holds a BA from Williams College in American Studies and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her book, Imagining the Mulatta: Managing Blackness in US and Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press 2020) examines contemporary media representations of mixed-black women in the US and Brazil. Recent writing has appeared in edited collections, Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressive Illusion (Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021), Mixed-Race Superheroes (Rutgers UP 2021), Writing About Screen Media (Routledge 2019). She received a 2016-17 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Her scholarly specialties include race and gender representation in popular culture, mixed-race, African-Americans and Afro-Brazilians, Black feminisms, and race and sports.