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Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter
Marcus Anthony Hunter ( April 27, 1981 - ) is an American sociologist, writer, poet, academic, activist, and #BlackLivesMatter coiner. Hunter is author of four books and numerous articles on racial and social justice and Black life. He is a professor of sociology and inaugural chair of the Department of African American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Early Life
Marcus Anthony Hunter was born to Marcus Allan Hunter and Shelley Hunter (nee' Shelley Charisse Sanders). After a chance encounter in an English 101 course at Upsala College (East Orange, NJ), Marcus Allan and Shelley met, married. Together the couple traveled south, arriving in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where the couple lived, and Marcus Allan also competed as an amateur boxer until his release from the U.S. Army. Hunter has two brothers, Maurice Allan and Malakiah ' Max' Ali and two sisters, Marqueeah Joy and Maya Ashae. Born in Newark and raised in South Philadelphia Hawthorne neighborhood, Hunter demonstrated prodigious abilities during early childhood led to a full scholarship to a private boarding school Girard College, where notable alums include Russell David Johnson ('The Professor' Gilligan's Island), and Wesley Morris (The New York Times).

Education
Hunter earned two B.A.s, African American Studies and History-Sociology, from Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, Hunter joined Teach For America. From 2003-2005, Hunter taught English at South Philadelphia's Audenreid High School while also earning a graduate certificate in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Thereafter, Hunter earned his M.A. and Ph.D in sociology from Northwestern University.

Career
From 2011-2014, Hunter was assistant professor of sociology at Yale University. Soon after his arrival, under the chairship of Elizabeth Alexander also joined the faculty of Yale's African American Studies Department. While at Yale, Hunter co-designed and co-founded Yale's Education Studies Program, and received Yale's Poorvu Family Prize for exceptional teaching. On August 20, 2012, Hunter coined #Black Lives Matter on Twitter six months following Trayvon Martin's death. The following year, Hunter published his first book, Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America, a revisit and investigation of the events and history of the Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward which served as W.E.B. Du Bois' field site for the The Philadelphia Negro.

After declining a tenured professorship at the University of Cambridge(U.K.), Hunter joined the sociology faculty at UCLA in 2014. Hunter has served as the inaugural chair of UCLA's Department of African American Studies, two-term President of the Association of Black Sociologists, and co-editor of Routledge's Sociology Re-wired Series. Hunter has held international professorships at the University of Manchester (UK) and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (France), numerous research grands, and in 2019 was inducted into the East Orange (NJ) Hall of Fame, among notable members including Cicely Tyson, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, and hip hop pioneers Queen Latifah and Naughty by Nature.

Currently, Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, Professor of sociology and African American Studies at UCLA. Hunter is also co-leader and co-founder of the national movement to achieve Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation in the United States. Alongside Dr. Gail Christpher, Hunter helped draft and is currently mobilizing for Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Senator Cory Booker's U.S. Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation legislation.

Books (author)

 * Hunter, Marcus Anthony and Zandria Robinson (2018). Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life.
 * Hunter, Marcus Anthony. (2013) Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (Oxford University Press) 234 Pages.
 * Hunter, Marcus Anthony, Marissa Guerrero and Cathy J. Cohen. (2010) “Black Youth Sexuality: Established Paradigms and New Approaches,” in Juan Battle & Sandra Barnes (Eds.), Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies, pp. 377-400. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press). ( Book Chapter)

Books (editor)

 * 2018 - The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, (editor, Routledge Press).

Book Reviews

 * 2017 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by Aldon Morris. Sociological Forum 32(2): 439-441.
 * 2017 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon. Contemporary Sociology 46(1): 76-78.
 * 2016 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. Private Property: Eminent Domain in Philadelphia by Debbie Becher. City & Community 15(2): 189-191.
 * 2016 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. The Hero’s Fight by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly. Social Service Review 90(1): 173-176.
 * 2015 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “All the Gayborhoods are White: Review of ‘There Goes the Gaybhorhood’ by Amin Ghaziani. Metropoilitics.
 * 2015 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. Urban Nightlife by Rueben Buford May. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 121 (2): pp. 609-611
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. The Durable Slum by Liza Weinstein. Social Forces
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. Everyday Law On The Street by Mariana Valverde. Contemporary Sociology 43: 422-423.
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. The Urban Ethnography Reader by Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz and Alexandra K. Murphy, City & Community 13(4): 414-415.

Articles

 * 2018 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony, Kevin Loughran, and Gary Alan Fine. "Memory Politics: Growth 	Coalitions, Urban Pasts, and the Creation of 'Historic' Philadelphia." City & Community (in press).
 * 2018 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. "Black Logics, Black Methods: Indigenous Timelines, Race, and 	Ethnography." Sociological Perspectives 61 (2): 207-221.
 * 2018 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. "The sociology of Stuart Hall." Identities 25 (1): 29-34.
 * 2018 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. "Black Souls on Fire: W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro and the 	Enduring Urban Color Line." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 4 (1): 159-160.
 * 2017 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. "Racial Physics or a Theory For Everything That Happened," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40 (8): 1173-1183.
 * 2016 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony, Pattillo, Mary, Taylor, Keeanga, and Zandria F. Robinson. “Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play and Poetry,” Theory, Culture & Society, 33 (7-8): 31-56.
 * 2016 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony and Zandria F. Robinson. “The Sociology of Urban Black America,” Annual Review of Sociology, 42 (1): 385-405.
 * 2016 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Du Boisian Sociology and Intellectual Reparations: for coloured scholars who consider suicide when our rainbows are not enuf,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39 (8): 1379-1384.
 * 2015 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Heterogeneity: How The Philadelphia Negro Shaped American Sociology,” The American Sociologist 46 (2): 219-233.
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Black Philly after The Philadelphia Negro,” Contexts 14 (1): 26-31 (featured article, podcast, and Open Access article).
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Between Using a Rock & Living in a Hard Place,” Current Anthropology 55 (1): 14-15.
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony, “Ecologies, Post-Modern Urbanisms, and Symbolic Economies: 	A Comparative Assessment of American Urban Sociology ” Comparative Sociology 13:185-214.
 * 2013 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “The Same Sex Marriage Racial Divide,” Contexts 12 (3): 74-76.
 * 2010 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “The Nightly Round: Space, Social Capital and Urban Black Nightlife,” City & Community 9 (2): 165-186.
 * 2010 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “All the Gays Are White and All the Blacks Are Straight: Black Gay Men, Identity and Community,” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 7 (2): 81-92

Awards

 * Finalist, C. Wright Mills AWARD (2013), Honorable Mention, Komarovsky Book Award (2016), Eastern Sociological SocietyAwards: Winner, American Sociological Association, History of Sociology Section, 2010 Graduate Student Paper Award.
 * Awards: Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association, Community & Urban Sociology Section, 2010 Graduate Student Paper Award; Winner, 2009 Robert F. Winch Memorial Award Outstanding Published Paper, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology.
 * Awards: Winner, American Sociological Association, Sexualities Section, 2010 Graduate Student 	Paper Award; Winner, Robert F. Winch Memorial Award
 * Best Second Year Paper Award,  	Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, 2007.

Other Commentary

 * 2018 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. "a new black holiday, or why w.e.b. du bois's 150th birthday matters." Contexts blog, February 23
 * 2017 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. "GOP tax cuts would hammer California's Poor," Sacramento Bee, November 17.
 * 2016 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony and Nourbese Flint. "Black Women and Girls in California Have To Make a Lot of Lemonade," Los Angeles Sentinel, June 1.
 * 2016 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “for colored scholars who consider suicide when our rainbows are not enuf,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology,
 * 2015 - Johns, David and Marcus Anthony Hunter. “Educational Excellence for African Americans? That would be dope”, Ebony Magazine, July 9.
 * 2015 - Fine, Gary, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Kevin Loughran. “Getting Malled in Philadelphia: the Growth Coalition and the Historic City,” Discover Society, June 3.
 * 2015 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “22 million reasons black America doesn’t trust banks,” Op-Ed, The Conversation, February 26.
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Minority voters tell their stories,” Op-Ed, The Conversation, November 6.
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “What Michael Sam’s Kiss Means for the Most Invisible: Black AND Gay,” Op-Ed, Talking Points Memo, May 15.
 * 2014 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Voter Suppression is a Threat to All,” Op-Ed, the Washington Post, January 20.
 * 2012 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Cities to Republicans: The 2012 Presidential Election and the Urban Mandate,” The Griot, (December 2012: 4-6).
 * 2012 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Republican Attitudes toward Urban America,” Letters, New York Times, October 17.
 * 2012 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “How The New Voter ID Laws Impede Disadvantaged Citizens,” Scholar Strategy Network. (reprinted)
 * 2012 - Hunter, Marcus Anthony. “Black Student-Athletes,” Letters, New York Times, January 15.