MamyrahDougé-Prosper

Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California at Irvine. Her work generally focuses on Afro-descendant/Black social movements in the Americas. More specifically, her research centers the construction of neocolonial nationalist ideologies and collective identities in relation to race and class, gender and sexuality, education and language, and religion in Haiti. Dougé-Prosper has published in political magazines such as LeftEast as well as academic journals such as Women’s Studies Quarterly and International Studies Review. She is completing her first manuscript titled Development Arrested in Occupied Haiti: Social Movements and the Gangster State. Dougé-Prosper is also the international coordinator of a pan-African collective organization in the United States, Community Movement Builders and the co-host of the WBAI Pacifica in New York City radio show “Haiti: Our Revolution Continues.”