Carolette Norwood

Dr. Carolette Norwood is professor and department head of sociology and criminology at Howard University. Dr. Norwood is a Black feminist sociologist whose research explores the implications of violence (structural, spatial, and interpersonal) at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, and space on reproductive and sexual health injustice for Black women. Dr. Norwood’s research on Black women’s economic mobility and reproductive (in)justice in Cincinnati collectively informs her first book project tentatively titled, Jim Crow Geographies: Mapping the Intersections of Poverty, Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Urbane Space, under contract with Columbia University Press.

Select Publications
Norwood, Carolette. (2023). Black Women's economic mobility in Cincinnati urbane space. Retrieved from https://policycommons.net/artifacts/3754081/black-womens-economic-mobility-in-cincinnati-urbane-space/4559578/ on 26 Oct 2023. CID: 20.500.12592/9hzt0j.

Norwood, Carolette, Farrah Jacquez, Thembi Carr, Stef Murawsky, Key Beck, and Amy Tuttle. (2022). Reproductive justice, public black feminism in practice: A reflection on community-based participatory research in Cincinnati." Societies 12, no. 1 (2022): 17. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/12/1/17

Norwood, Carolette. (2021). Misrepresenting reproductive justice: A Black feminist critique of “protecting Black life”." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46, no. 3: 715-741.

Norwood, Carolette. (2021). Black feminist sociology and the politics of space and place at the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality. In Black Feminist Sociology, pp. 139-150. Routledge.

Jones, Holly J., Carolette R. Norwood, and Karen Bankston. (2019). Leveraging community engagement to develop culturally tailored stress management interventions in midlife Black women. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 57, no. 3: 32-38.

Norwood, Carolette R. (2018). Decolonizing my hair, unshackling my curls: An autoethnography on what makes my natural hair journey a Black feminist statement. International Feminist Journal of Politics 20, no. 1: 69-84.

Norwood, Carolette R. (2018). Mapping the intersections of violence on Black women’s sexual health within the Jim Crow geographies of Cincinnati neighborhoods. Frontiers 39, no. 2: 97.

Norwood, Carolette. (2014). Women's empowerment and microcredit: A case study from rural Ghana. Journal of international studies and development 4: 1.

Norwood, Carolette. (2013). Perspective in Africana feminism; exploring expressions of Black feminism/Womanism in the African diaspora." Sociology Compass 7, no. 3: 225-236.