Danielle Clealand

Dr. Clealand is an associate professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines comparative racial politics, racial identity among Latinos, group consciousness, Black public opinion and racial inequality with a focus on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and the United States. Dr. Clealand’s award-winning book, The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness during the Revolution, examines racial ideology, the institutional mechanisms that support racial inequality in Cuba, and Black solidarity and consciousness in Cuba. Her current project, Black Migration into a White City (co-authored with Devyn Spence Benson), is an oral and political history of Black Cuban migration in the United States and racial exclusion in Latino communities. Dr. Clealand is also working on an NSF-funded project in the Dominican Republic on race, policing, and immigration with Yanilda González. Her work can be found in Annual Review of Political Science, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Politics, Groups and Identities, Journal of Latin American Studies and SOULS. She serves on the editorial team for Politics, Groups and Identities and the editorial board for Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and National Review of Black Politics. Dr. Clealand received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Political Science in 2011. More information about Dr. Clealand can be found here.