Mako Ward

Select Academic Publications (full texts available using Google Scholar link above) 

Ward, M. F. (forthcoming, 2024). Hotep anti-Blackness: Misogynoir and queer exclusion in online conspiracy theorizing. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.

Ward, M. F. (forthcoming, October 2024). Ruha Benjamin. In M C. Jipguep-Akhtar and N. Khan (eds.) Fifty key scholars in Black social thought. New York: Routledge.

Ward, M. F., Sandlin, J., Vlahoulis, M. M. and Holman, C. (editors) (2021). The pandemic reader: Exposing social (in)justice in the time of COVID-19. New York: DIO Press, Inc.

Ward, M. F. (2021). “Metamorphic liberation”: Radical self-care and the biopolitical agency of Black women. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, 8(1): 256-273.

Ward, M. F. (2021). The Resurgence of Marxist feminist analytics: Book review of Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays by Martha E. Giménez. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 47(1-2): 241-247.

Ward, M. F. (2017). Queen Bey and the new Niggerati: Ethics of individualism in the appropriation of black radicalism. Black Camera, 9(1): 146-163.

Fitts, M. (2011). Theorizing transformative revolutionary action: The contribution of bell hooks to emancipatory knowledge production. The C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas, 17(1): 112-132.

Fitts, M. (2008). ‘Drop it like it’s hot’: Culture industry laborers and their perspectives on rap music video production. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 8(1): 211-235.

Fitts, M. (2009). Institutionalizing intersectionality: Reflections on the structure of women’s studies departments and programs. In Michele T. Berger and Kathleen Guidroz (Eds.) The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class and Gender, 249-257. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Rubin, L. R., Fitts, M. L., & Becker, A. E. (2003). ‘Whatever feels good in my soul’: Body ethics and aesthetics among African American and Latina women. Culture, medicine, and psychiatry, 27: 49-75.

Public Scholarship

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**Denotes sponsored research

***Denotes contract funding

*Acosta, A., *Akapnitis, I., *Brooks-Hawkins, J., Ward, M.F., Hita, L., Lopez, V., Ignacio, M., Mendoza, N., Wolfersteig, W., Osuna, C., *Jenkins, G.T., & Diaz, M. (2024). Empowering providers to address equity in Arizona healthcare: Addressing health disparities related to substance use disorder. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, Social Transformation Lab & Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center.

**Barra, E., Ward, M. F., Anderson, L. M. and Brown, *A. M. (2022). Women in the mix study. Los Angeles: The Recording Academy©. https://naras.a.bigcontent.io/v1/static/witm_study_2

**Hines, E. and Ward, M. F. (2022). Black women thriving: BWT report 2022. Raleigh, NC: Every Level Leadership. https://everylevelleads.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Black-Women-Thriving-Report_2022.pdf.

***Ward, M. F., Crudup, C. *Borman, B., Young, L. and Wilson, D. (2022). Outreach worker program: Assessment and evaluation. Evaluation report submitted to the Starbucks Global Social Impact Team. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University.

Ward, M. F. (2020, October 3). The limits of the protest paradigm. JSTOR daily, https://daily.jstor.org/intersectional-protest-image/.

Ward, M. F. and Bailey, M. (2020, June 24). Queer liberation is Black liberation, justice for Black lives is justice for all. Praxis Center, https://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/justice-for-black-lives/.

Ward, M. F. (2020). BARE coach certification program: Curriculum assessment report. Evaluation report submitted to Susan Hyatt, Inc. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University.

***Ward, M. F., Bailey, M. M., Solyom, J. and Bustamante, N. (2019). Welcoming dialogue on sexuality bias. To be welcoming. Tempe, AZ: Starbucks Global Academy. https://www.starbucksglobalacademy.com/to-be-welcoming/.

***Ward, M. F., Solyom, J., Chin, J. (2019). Welcoming dialogue on gender bias. To be welcoming. Tempe, AZ: Starbucks Global Academy. https://www.starbucksglobalacademy.com/to-be-welcoming/.

**Fitts, M. and Perry, G. (Eds.) 2008. The State of the Central District Report: Community-Based Service-Learning Project. Seattle: Seattle University.

Fitts, M., Sawa, D. and Schulman, J. C. (2007). Lesson 1: Modern momotoro: Folktales in hip hop. In M. Runnel and M. Diaz (eds.), The hip-hop education guidebook, volume 1. New York: Hip-Hop Association, Inc., 70-77.

Perry, G. K. and Fitts, M. (2006, September). “Gentrification and Black America: What Should We Know?” The Griot: The Official Newsletter of The Association of Black Sociologists.

Cultural Commentary and Popular Education Articles

Ward, M. F. (2019, July 12). Could Black philanthropy help solve the Black student debt crisis? The conversation, https://theconversation.com/could-black-philanthropy-help-solve-the-black-student-debt-crisis-117734.

Ward, M. F. and Bell, C. (2013, December 17). The problem with beyhive bottom bitch feminism. Huffington post Canada, http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/real-colored-girls/beyonce-feminism_b_4459678.html.

Fitts, M. (2010, November 6). The good news: Madea’s not a colored girl. Ms. Blog/ Retrieved from http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/11/06/the-good-news-madeas-not-a-colored-girl/.

Fitts, M. (2010, October 14). Can Tyler Perry pull off a Black feminist masterpiece? Ms. Blog, Retrieved from http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/10/14/can-tyler-perry-pull-off-a-black-feminist-masterpiece/.

Fitts, M. (2010, September 10). Where do we go from bell [hooks]. Ms. Blog. Retrieved from http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/09/10/where-do-we-go-from-bell/.

Fitts, M. (2010, May 27). Police violence is a feminist issue. Ms. Blog. Retrieved from http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/05/27/police-violence-is-a-feminist-issue/.

Fitts, M. (2010, May 10). Marquette retracts job offer from lesbian-feminist sociologist, Ms. Blog. Retrieved from http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/05/10/marquette-retracts-job-offer-to-lesbian-feminist-sociologist/.

Fitts, M. (2009, February 5). Better education, open schools are the right way to fight crime. Seattle post-intelligencer, Editorials, p. A11. Retrieved from https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Guest-Columnist-Better-education-open-schools-1299429.php.

Fitts, M. (2007, April-May). Beyond beats and rhymes tackles male roles and sexism in hip hop. Freedom Socialist, 28 (2): 10. Retrieved from https://socialism.com/fs-article/beyond-beats-and-rhymes-tackles-male-roles-and-sexism-in-hip-hop/.