Kimberly McClain DaCosta
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Social Studies
Address:
Department of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Barker Center
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.496.2884
Fax: 617.496.2871
Email: dacosta@fas.harvard.edu
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
African and African American Studies 190. African-American Families: Politics, Culture, Experience
Biography
Kimberly McClain DaCosta is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies at Harvard. Professor DaCosta received her doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy program at Yale, is a recipient of a fellowship from the Advertiser’s Educational Foundation, and was a 2004-2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor DaCosta is interested in the intersections of cultural ideas of race and family and their practical effects. Her book Making Multiracials: State, Family and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press) examines how multiracialism emerged as a topic of public discussion in the last quarter century, and how “multiracial” became a recognizable social category and mode of identification.
She is currently beginning new research on class differences in African American family networks of care.
Recent Publications
"All in the Family: The Familial Roots of Racial Division," in The Politics of Multiracialism, Heather Dalmage (ed.) (SUNY Press, 2004)
"Multiracial Identity: From Personal Problem to Public Issue," in New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the Twenty First Century, Loretta I. Winters and Herman L. DeBose (eds.), (Sage Publications 2002)
"Changing Face, Changing Race: The Remaking of Race in the Japanese American and African American Communities," with Rebecca C. King in
The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, Maria P.P. Root (ed.), (Sage Publications, 1996)