Black Political Women and the 2020 Presidential Election – Virtual Platform

Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

Political Science Assoc. Professor, Rutgers University

Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd discusses the rise of Black political women and the historic election of vice-president elect Kamala Harris, first female and first Black vice-president. She will also discuss how the policy needs of Black women and their communities might be addressed under the Biden administration.

A lawyer and political scientist, Alexander-Floyd is the co-founder of the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics. She is the author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and the forthcoming Liminal Subjects: Black Women, Melodrama, and Post-Feminism in the New Millennium (forthcoming NYU Press, 2020), which investigates the political implications of post-feminist, post-civil rights ideology. Her articles have appeared in leading journals such as Feminist Formations; Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies; The National Political Science Review; Politics & Gender; and Signs.

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