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Corey J. Miles, PhD
Assistant Professor
Corey J. Miles is an ethnographer of the U.S. South. His mama lived and died there.
She did both in simple and complicated ways. His research interest is a commitment to
her. It manifests in examining how southern Black people produce a thing we might call
home in spaces that are hostile to them. Sociologists often call this placemaking. As a
scholar who was raised by black women and trap music and trained as a sociologist, he
uses the quiet and loud pieces of southern Black performance as an entry point into
understanding the current unfolding of the U.S. South.
Contact Information
Contact Information
Tulane University
Department of Sociology
220 Newcomb Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
Africana Studies Program
300F Hebert Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
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