Abra Johnson

I can’t deny embodying Chicago; quite literally, my home is where my heart is.

As a teaching sociologist, I use that thick nostalgia and draw from all things art as impetus for, as articulation of my passion and commitment to social justice and egalitarianism on U.S. soil.

My scholarly pursuits primarily include the convergence of race/ethnicity, gender, class, and culture discourses at the site of popular music genres and subcultures. Having spent the last four years both teaching sociology and creating performance art, I am deeply fascinated by these convergences that coalesce into both a creolized national language and a meta-cultural dialogue.

Now more than ever I am committed to a social practicum that emphasizes this theorizing of the popular and the utility of art as public discourse on a range of issues of –isms, often told from the perspectives of peoples directly impacted.