The Race & Ethnicity Study Group, CRE2: Donavan Ramon, Keeping It Real: Black Men, Fight Scenes and Self Making
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at WashU welcomes faculty and graduate students from all St. Louis area campuses interested in race and ethnicity as categories of analysis in a broad variety of transdisciplinary contemporary and historical cultural studies work.
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Dr. Donavan Ramon is a Harlem-born scholar of African American and African Diaspora literatures. He earned his B.A. from Hunter College (CUNY) and his Ph.D. in African American Literature from Rutgers University. Over the past decade, he has taught at institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Kentucky and has published widely across scholarly and public platforms.
His first book, Betraying Their Colored Descent: Psychoanalysis and Racial Passing in American Literature (University of Missouri Press, 2021), offers a fresh psychoanalytic approach to racial passing narratives, revealing the psychological complexities and racial anxieties embedded in twentieth-century American and African American literature.
