Dominique Young
Dominique Young is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on African American women’s popular fiction, film, and music videos from the 1990s. In Spring 2019 she taught her first 200-level undergraduate stand-alone course titled, “Late 20th Century African American Women’s Popular Fiction and Culture”. This course examined seminal late 20th Century African American women's popular fiction and visual productions that center working-class black women. Through this course and in her own research, Dominique is invested in exploring the popular form as a radical existing space for representations of some of the most marginal African American women during the 1990s.
Former and prospective students interested in connecting with her should contact her via email to set an appointment during office hours.
Awards & Grants
Outstanding Graduate Researcher
Awardee, Outstanding Graduate Researcher.
Author/Lead: Dominique YoungClark Atlanta University, Spring 2019.
Publications
Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, by Soyica Diggs Colbert
Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy.
Author/Lead: Dominique YoungThe post-Jim Crow, post-apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with it an assault on race-based forms of knowledge production and coalition formation.
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