Damien Sojoyner
Professor, Anthropology
School of Social Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology
Email: damien.sojoyner@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
Research Interests
Anti-Carceral Studies, Education, Urban Anthropology, Race, Masculinities
Websites
Publications
Books
Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice. Fordham University Press (2023) .
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums. University of California Press (2022).
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles. University of
Minnesota Press (2016).
Journal Articles
Vaught, Sabina; Sojoyner, Damien; Wun, Connie (2022). A Collaborative Experiment in Building Anti-
Carceral Pedagogies. Ethnic Studies Review. 45(1-2). 53-61.
Levy, Janelle O. and Sojoyner, D.M. (2022) The Cost of Freedom: The Violent Exploitation of Black
Labor as Essential to Nation Building in Jamaica and the United States of America. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. 8(1-2)
Sojoyner, D.M. (2021) You are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral
State. American Anthropologist, 123(3), 658-670.
Sojoyner, D. M. (2017) Another Life is Possible: Black Fugitivity and Enclosed Places.
Cultural Anthropology. 32(4), 514-536. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca32.4.04
Schnyder, D. M. (2013). Black Radicals Make for Bad Citizens: Undoing the Myth of the School to Prison Pipeline. Berkeley Review of Education, 4(2), 241-263. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/35c207gv.
Schnyder, D. M. (2012). Criminals, Planters and Corporate Capitalists: The Case of Public Education in Los Angeles. Black California Dreamin', 1(1), 107-126. University of California Press. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/63g6128j?view=search#page-109.
Schnyder, D. M. (2012). Masculinity Lockdown: The Formation of Black Masculinity in a California Public High School. Transforming Anthropology, 20(1), 5-16. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01142.x/abstract.
Schnyder, D. M. (2010). Enclosures Abound: Black Cultural Autonomy, Prison Regime and Public Education. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 13(3), 349 - 365. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2010.500843.
Book Chapters
Gamez, Diana and Sojoyner, Damien (2024). Queering the Citizen? In Clay, K.; Henry Jr. K.L.
(Eds.) The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
Jones, Stephanie D. and Sojoyner, Damien (2024). The Myth of Criminal Justice Reform. In
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew (Ed.) Proposals for a Caring Economy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Sojoyner, D. M. (2018) Incarceration. In Edwards, E.; Ferguson, R.; Ogbar, O.G. (Eds.)
Keywords in African American Studies. New York, United States: NYU Press.
Sojoyner, D. M. (2017) Dissonance in Time: (Un)Making and (Re)Mapping of Blackness.
In Johnson, G. T., Lubin, A. (Eds.) The Futures of Black Radicalism. New York, United States of America: Verso Press.
Schnyder, D. M. (2014). Changing the Lens. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline (pp. 54-66). New York/New York, United States of America: Peter Lang.
Schnyder, D. M. (2012). Reality is Stronger than Fiction. Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education (367-382). Syracuse/New York, United States of America: Syracuse Graduate School Press.
Book Inclusions
Sojoyner, D.M., Willoughby-Herard, T (2020). Unhushable Wit: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson (Preface). In Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. 3rd edition.
Robinson, C., Schnyder, D. M. (2011). Voices From the Collective. In Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader (29-33). Los Angeles/California, United States of America: Southern California Library.
Books Reviewed
Sojoyner, D.M. (2020) “Review of Anthropology of Marxism.” Current Anthropology, 61, 389-390
Sojoyner, D. M. (2015). With Intent? The Malicious Consequences of Prison - A collective review of The New Jim Crow, Children of the Prison Boom, and Disrupted Childhoods. [Review of the book The New Jim Crow; Children of the Prison Boom; Disrupted Childhoods, by Alexandar, M., S. W., Wildeman, C., Siegel, J.]. Women Studies Quarterly, 43(1&2), 299-303. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/581539/pdf.
Schnyder, D. M. (2010). Review of Right to be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies. [Review of the book Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies, by Meiners, E.]. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 41(1), 118-119.
Blog Posts
Grigsby, J.; Sojoyner, D.M. (2018). Black Removal From South Central Los Angeles. Anthropology News Blog. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2018/11/20/black-removal-in-south-central-los-angeles/
Sojoyner, D.M. (2018). A Beautiful Withdrawal: An Interview with Damien M. Sojoyner. Society for Cultural Anthropology Fieldsights Blog. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-beautiful-withdrawal-an-interview-with-damien-m-sojoyner
Sojoyner. D. M. (2016) Enclosure-based rhetoric and fundamentals behind the school-to-prison pipeline. University of Minnesota Press Blog. http://www.uminnpressblog.com/2016/11/enclosure-based-rhetoric-and.html
Redmond, S., Sojoyner, D. M. (2015). Keywords in Black Protest: A(n Anti-)Vocabulary. Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31051-keywords-in-black-protest-a-n-anti-vocabulary.
Wun, C., Sojoyner, D. M. (2015). Beyond Police Violence: A Conversation on Antiblackness, #BlackLivesMatter, #WeChargeGenocide and the Challenge to Educators. Berkeley Review of Education. http://www.berkeleyreviewofeducation.com/ferguson-blacklivesmatter-blog/beyond-police-violence-a-conversation-on-antiblackness-blacklivesmatter-wechargegenocide-and-the-challenge-to-educators.
Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice. Fordham University Press (2023) .
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums. University of California Press (2022).
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles. University of
Minnesota Press (2016).
Journal Articles
Vaught, Sabina; Sojoyner, Damien; Wun, Connie (2022). A Collaborative Experiment in Building Anti-
Carceral Pedagogies. Ethnic Studies Review. 45(1-2). 53-61.
Levy, Janelle O. and Sojoyner, D.M. (2022) The Cost of Freedom: The Violent Exploitation of Black
Labor as Essential to Nation Building in Jamaica and the United States of America. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. 8(1-2)
Sojoyner, D.M. (2021) You are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral
State. American Anthropologist, 123(3), 658-670.
Sojoyner, D. M. (2017) Another Life is Possible: Black Fugitivity and Enclosed Places.
Cultural Anthropology. 32(4), 514-536. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.14506/ca32.4.04
Schnyder, D. M. (2013). Black Radicals Make for Bad Citizens: Undoing the Myth of the School to Prison Pipeline. Berkeley Review of Education, 4(2), 241-263. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/35c207gv.
Schnyder, D. M. (2012). Criminals, Planters and Corporate Capitalists: The Case of Public Education in Los Angeles. Black California Dreamin', 1(1), 107-126. University of California Press. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/63g6128j?view=search#page-109.
Schnyder, D. M. (2012). Masculinity Lockdown: The Formation of Black Masculinity in a California Public High School. Transforming Anthropology, 20(1), 5-16. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01142.x/abstract.
Schnyder, D. M. (2010). Enclosures Abound: Black Cultural Autonomy, Prison Regime and Public Education. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 13(3), 349 - 365. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2010.500843.
Book Chapters
Gamez, Diana and Sojoyner, Damien (2024). Queering the Citizen? In Clay, K.; Henry Jr. K.L.
(Eds.) The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
Jones, Stephanie D. and Sojoyner, Damien (2024). The Myth of Criminal Justice Reform. In
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew (Ed.) Proposals for a Caring Economy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Sojoyner, D. M. (2018) Incarceration. In Edwards, E.; Ferguson, R.; Ogbar, O.G. (Eds.)
Keywords in African American Studies. New York, United States: NYU Press.
Sojoyner, D. M. (2017) Dissonance in Time: (Un)Making and (Re)Mapping of Blackness.
In Johnson, G. T., Lubin, A. (Eds.) The Futures of Black Radicalism. New York, United States of America: Verso Press.
Schnyder, D. M. (2014). Changing the Lens. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline (pp. 54-66). New York/New York, United States of America: Peter Lang.
Schnyder, D. M. (2012). Reality is Stronger than Fiction. Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education (367-382). Syracuse/New York, United States of America: Syracuse Graduate School Press.
Book Inclusions
Sojoyner, D.M., Willoughby-Herard, T (2020). Unhushable Wit: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson (Preface). In Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. 3rd edition.
Robinson, C., Schnyder, D. M. (2011). Voices From the Collective. In Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader (29-33). Los Angeles/California, United States of America: Southern California Library.
Books Reviewed
Sojoyner, D.M. (2020) “Review of Anthropology of Marxism.” Current Anthropology, 61, 389-390
Sojoyner, D. M. (2015). With Intent? The Malicious Consequences of Prison - A collective review of The New Jim Crow, Children of the Prison Boom, and Disrupted Childhoods. [Review of the book The New Jim Crow; Children of the Prison Boom; Disrupted Childhoods, by Alexandar, M., S. W., Wildeman, C., Siegel, J.]. Women Studies Quarterly, 43(1&2), 299-303. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/581539/pdf.
Schnyder, D. M. (2010). Review of Right to be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies. [Review of the book Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies, by Meiners, E.]. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 41(1), 118-119.
Blog Posts
Grigsby, J.; Sojoyner, D.M. (2018). Black Removal From South Central Los Angeles. Anthropology News Blog. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2018/11/20/black-removal-in-south-central-los-angeles/
Sojoyner, D.M. (2018). A Beautiful Withdrawal: An Interview with Damien M. Sojoyner. Society for Cultural Anthropology Fieldsights Blog. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-beautiful-withdrawal-an-interview-with-damien-m-sojoyner
Sojoyner. D. M. (2016) Enclosure-based rhetoric and fundamentals behind the school-to-prison pipeline. University of Minnesota Press Blog. http://www.uminnpressblog.com/2016/11/enclosure-based-rhetoric-and.html
Redmond, S., Sojoyner, D. M. (2015). Keywords in Black Protest: A(n Anti-)Vocabulary. Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31051-keywords-in-black-protest-a-n-anti-vocabulary.
Wun, C., Sojoyner, D. M. (2015). Beyond Police Violence: A Conversation on Antiblackness, #BlackLivesMatter, #WeChargeGenocide and the Challenge to Educators. Berkeley Review of Education. http://www.berkeleyreviewofeducation.com/ferguson-blacklivesmatter-blog/beyond-police-violence-a-conversation-on-antiblackness-blacklivesmatter-wechargegenocide-and-the-challenge-to-educators.
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Last updated
04/07/2025
04/07/2025