Arvenita Cherry
Public Anthropologist-in-Residence
CAS | ANTH | Anthropology
Degrees
Ph.D. Anthropology, 麻豆区 <br> M.A. Public Anthropology, 麻豆区 <br> M.T. Middle/Secondary Biology, Hampton University<br> B.S. Biology, Hampton University<br>
Bio
Arvenita Washington Cherry is a socio-cultural and educational anthropologist with expertise on the African Diaspora, race and ethnicity, and racism. Her research focuses on social constructions of blackness in public school settings in Prince George鈥檚 County, Maryland and in other areas largely populated with African 麻豆区s and other students of African descent. She explores the diversity of the African Diaspora and identity construction with a special emphasis on African descended individuals from the Caribbean and Latin America alongside African 麻豆区s in the United States. Additionally, Dr. Washington Cherry is researching how multiracial and multiethnic individuals of African descent are situated in an African Diasporic framework and how schools are incorporating understandings of diversity and multiculturalism that support students, educators, community building, and social justice.
Dr. Washington Cherry鈥檚 teaching interests include race, racism, race relations, culture, education, the African Diaspora, African 麻豆区 cultures, gender, and language. Her research interests include African 麻豆区s, Afro-Latinas/os and Latinas/os of African descent, Afro-Caribbeans, Creole culture in southern Louisiana, identity construction and social constructions of blackness, multiracial and multiethnic individuals of African descent, youth culture, and education.
