Dr. Shirley Anne Tate is a professor in the University of Alberta’s Department of Sociology and Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality whose research interests can be broadly located as Black feminist decolonial diaspora studies. Her publications have been in the areas of intersectional institutional racism, racism, affect, hybridity, creolization, beauty and Black anti-racist aesthetics, 'race' performativity, Black/white mixed-race lives and the “race”d and gendered body in enslavement and freedom. Dr Tate’s international academic leadership on the topic of intersectional institutional racism, decolonization and antiracism in universities spans more than a decade and her work on decolonial perspectives on Black Cultural Studies has evolved over a number of publications in which she has been developing Black feminist decolonial approaches to cultural analysis.

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