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Leslie Grinner

lgrinner@ric.edu

Background

Leslie Grinner is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Gender & Women’s Studies Program at Rhode Island College. She received her BA in Gender Studies and Social Science from the University of Southern California and her MS in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University. Professor Grinner’s work engages Intersectional and Black feminist theory, practice, and pedagogy; media literacy with its foundations in Cultural Studies; popular culture criticism; representations of Blackness/Anti-Blackness; and multiracial identities and families. She is the author of “Hip-Hop Sees No Color: An Exploration of Privilege and Power in Save the Last Dance” (2010) in which she introduced S.C.W.A.M.P., a groundbreaking framework for understanding the intersectional principles of dominant ideology. This S.C.W.A.M.P. framework is used as a teaching tool in high school and college classrooms across the country.

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