Kamesha Spates
Biography
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Kamesha Spates and Brittany C. Slatton
I’ve Got My Family and My Faith: Black Women and the Suicide Paradox, Socius 3, December 2017
Teaching and Research Interests:
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Race, Class, Gender
- Criminology, Law, and Deviance
- Critical Race Theory
- Suicidology
Grants:
2012, 2013 Spates, Kamesha. Fellowship to attend the Purdue Conference for Pre-tenure Women.
2012 Spates, Kamesha. Academic Affairs: Faculty Above and Beyond Award, Colorado State University-Pueblo
2011 Spates, Kamesha. Faculty Nominee, Academic Management Institute, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Service:
Ad-hoc Review Activities Reviewed article for Sociology Compass
National Service Activities Association of Black Sociologists, Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Paper committee, 2013-2014
Black Women’s Life Balance & Wellness Association, Conference Planning Committee, 2011-2012
Online Crisis Line Curriculum Co-developer, Pueblo Center for Suicide Prevention, 2011-2012
Education
Publications
- Spates, Kamesha.“The Missing Link”: The Exclusion of Black Women in Psychological Research and the Implications for Black Women's Mental Health. In Sage Open, (Online September 2012), vol 2, no. 3, Forthcoming in Print.
- Spates, Kamesha. 2011. “African American Women and Suicide: A Review and Critique of the Literature. In Sociology Compass, 5:5 (May 2011), 336-350.
- Spates, Kamesha. and Jenny Davis. Hegemonic Female Spaces: An Analysis of the Covert Meanings within Ladies Home Journal and Ebony Magazines’ Advertisements. In MP: An Online Feminist Journal, 3:2 (Fall 2010), 1-33.
- Spates, Kamesha. What Don’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger: An Analysis of Black Women’s Narratives of their Low Suicide Rates. Forthcoming with Paradigm Publishing.
- Brittany Slatton and Kamesha Spates1, Co-Editors. HyperSexual-Hyper Masculine?: Deconstructing Masculine, Sexual, and Racial Identity Formation among Contemporary Black Men. In Press with Ashgate Publishing.
- Spates, Kamesha. More than Meets the Eye: The use of Counter-narratives to Expand Students’ Perceptions of Black male Crack Dealers’. Brittany Slatton and Kamesha Spates (eds), HyperSexual-Hyper Masculine?: Deconstructing Masculine, Sexual, and Racial Ide
- Spates, Kamesha and Brittany Slatton. “Blackness, Maleness, and Sexuality as Interwoven Identities: Toward an Understanding of Contemporary Black Male Identity Formation.” In Brittany Slatton and Kamesha Spates (eds), HyperSexual-Hyper Masculine?: Deconst
- Spates, Kamesha. “Defying Logic: Redefining the Image of the Black Women through Social Networks and Motherhood." Pearson Custom Sociology: With Readings from the Intersection Collection, edited by Kathleen A. Tiemann, Ralph B. McNeal Jr., Betsy Lucal, Mo
- Spates, Kamesha and Michael Royster. “Religious Rights”. In William Chambliss and Geoffrey J Golson (eds), Key Issues in Crime and Crime and Punishment: Corrections, Volume 4, 245-260 (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing, 2011).
- Royster, Michael and Kamesha Spates. “Religious Convictions”, In William Chambliss and Geoffrey J Golson (eds), Key Issues in Crime and Crime and Punishment: Crime and Criminal Behaviors, Volume 1, 197-212 (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing, 2011).
