Maxine Leeds Craig is an American

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, working in the sociology department at the

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. Craig was a doctoral student of

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at the

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; her doctoral dissertation became the book, ''Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race'' (2002). Her second book, ''Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move'' (2013), was awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award of the

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's section on Body and Embodiment. She was chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class for 2009–2010.

Publications

*''Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race.''

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, 2002. .Reviews of ''Ain't I A Beauty Queen?'': * * *''Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse To Move.'' Oxford University Press, 2013. .Reviews of ''Sorry I Don't Dance'': * * * * * * *

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* Living people 21st-century African-American academics 21st-century American academics Black studies scholars University of California, Berkeley alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American sociologists American women sociologists 21st-century African-American women African-American sociologists {{US-sociologist-stub