Tracey Lewis-Elligan
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
Race/Class/Gender, Sociology of Health, Adolescence and Family

990 West Fullerton Avenue, Room #1204
Phone: 773.325.1889
E-mail: tlewisel@depaul.edu

Welcome! This webpage is designed to provide students, faculty, and community members with information about the classes I teach, the readings I've found inspiring, and research and teaching resources. The material should be especially relevant for people interested in issues of race, class, gender and health.

Research: My research focuses on two areas. First, I am interested in adolescent health issues. I examine the ways in which family, peers, neighborhoods, and school contexts influence positive health outcomes. Second, in response to the high incidence of obesity in American children, I am examine food access and distribution issues. My research is gJuly 16, 2008ry research methods. It is essential that the questions, methods, interpretation and dissemination of findings result from a collaborative partnership between community and the academy.

Feminist Works

Words of Fire Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Women, Race, Class by Angela Davis
The Truth That Never Hurts by Beverly Smith
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Ain't I A Woman by bell hooks
When and Where I Enter by Paul Giddings
Fighting Words by Patricia Hill Collins
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness  by Ingrid Banks
Race, Class, and Gender by Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Aren't I a Woman by Deborah Gray White
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in
Defense of Themselves 1894-1994 by Deborah Gray White
In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roast.
My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist by Joan Morgan

Sociology Classics

The Philadelphia Negro by W.E.B. DuBois
The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. DuBois
Race, Class, Caste by Oliver Cox
The Negro Family in the United States by E. Franklin Frazier
Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier
The Death of White Sociology Edited by Joyce Ladner
When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson
The Declining Significance of Race by William Julius Wilson

Critical Consciousness

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
Race Matters by Cornel West

Community Based Participatory Research

Community Based Participatory Research for Health
Edited by Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health
Edited by Meredith Minkler

Teaching and Pedagogy

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice by Adams, Bell, and Griffin
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice by Adams, Blumenfeld, Castaneda, Hackman, Peters, Zuniga
University TeachingEdited by Leo Lambert, Stacey Lane Tice, and Patricia Featherstone

Films, Documentaries and Videos

Cultural Criticism and Transformation
Skin Deep
Color of Fear
Tale of O
Black Is.Black Ain't
Ethnic Notions 1986 58 min.
Kids 1995. 91 min
Defending Our Lives 1993 43 minutes
Framingham 8
Race the Power of an Illusion
HIV House on Fire
Race: Two Nations