Mako Ward

Selected Academic Publications (full texts available here) 

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.

Ward, M. F. (2017). Race, Gender and Sexuality in Hip Hop. Toronto: Top Hat.

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.

Editorials & Non-Academic Publications

"The Power of the Intersectional Protest Image," JSTOR Daily, October 3, 2020.  

"Queer Liberation is Black Liberation, Justice for Black Lives is Justice for All," Praxis Center, June 24, 2020 (co-authored with Marlon M. Bailey)

“Could black philanthropy help solve the black student debt crisis?,” The Conversation, July 12, 2019

“The Problem with Beyhive Bottom Bitch Feminism,” Huffington Post Canada, Dec. 17, 2013 (co-authored with Christa Bell) 

"The Good News: Madea’s Not a Colored Girl,” Ms., November 6, 2010

“Can Tyler Perry Pull Off a Black Feminist Masterpiece?,” Ms., October 14, 2010

“Where Do We Go From bell,” Ms., September 10, 2010

“Police Violence is a Feminist Issue,” May 27, 2010

"Better education, open schools are the right way to fight crime.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Friday, February 5, 2009, Editorials, p. A11. 

“Beyond Beats and Rhymes tackles male roles and sexism in hip hop.” Freedom Socialist, April-May 2007, Volume 28, No.2, p. 10.