Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey

Co-Director/Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni Africana Studies, Political Science

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Education

Certificate of Psychoanalytic Theory, 2018
Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, Atlanta, Georgia

Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Political Science
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Field: American Politics
Subfield: Racial Politics and Political Psychology
Committee: William E Nelson Jr., Harwood McClerking, Thomas Nelson, and Wendy Smooth

Master of Arts, 2006 Political Science
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Bachelor of Arts, 2004 Political Science and History
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina

Specializations: Racial and Ethnic Politics, Rap music and Politics, Hip-Hop culture, Black Politics, Political Psychology, Political Attitudes and Ideology

Biography

Dr. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey is a Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University and the Co-Director for the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA). Her research interests include Hip Hop culture, popular culture, political behavior, political attitudes, African-American politics, Black women and Politics, political psychology and public opinion.
Her current research examines the relationship between political rap music and racial attitudes in a book (with Adolphus Belk, Jr) tentatively titled, Check the Rhyme: Political Rap Music and Racial Attitudes (New York University Press).

She recently published a co-edited volume with Jonathan Gayles entitled Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture (Routledge Press 2023). Dr. Bonnette-Bailey has also published a co-edited volume with Adolphus Belk Jr entitled For the Culture: Hip-Hop and Social Justice (University of Michigan Press, 2022) examining the relationships between Hip-Hop culture and social justice. Additionally, Dr. Bonnette-Bailey published (2015) a book with the University of Pennsylvania Press entitled, Pulse of the People: Rap Music and Black Political Attitudes.
Dr. Bonnette-Bailey has published over 5 articles and 7 book chapters in addition to the three books she has authored. These articles have been published in a variety of journals including the journals, Ethnic Studies Review, New Political Science, and Du Bois Review. She is also the winner of numerous awards including the Provost’s Outstanding Tenure Track Faculty Achievement Award (2023) and their Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) (2022) award as well as the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Diversity Award (2020). Currently, she serves as the Co-Principal Investigator on two Mellon Foundation grants “Intersectionality in the American South,” and the “Humanities Inclusivity Program,” totaling over 2 million dollars.

In 2017, she hosted the first political Hip Hop conference at Georgia State University entitled Behind the Music: Hip Hop and Social Justice, which examined the ways in which social justice is addressed and expressed within Hip Hop culture. In 2018, she was a Nasir Jones/ W. E. B. Du Bois Hip-Hop Fellow with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Later that year she completed two talks in Ingelheim and Kaiserslautern, Germany discussing the relevance and importance of rap music, activism and social justice and she received her certificate in psychoanalysis from Emory University’s Psychoanalytic Institute.

In 2019, Dr. Bonnette-Bailey presented at TedX talk entitled “The Political Impact of Rap Music” and in 2020, she hosted Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice at Georgia State University. In 2021, Dr. Bonnette-Bailey founded the podcast The Intersection: Where Black Popular Culture Meets Social Justice, which can be found on all of your podcasts servers. Also, in 2021 Dr. Bonnette-Bailey appeared in the Bounce Network original documentary Protect or Neglect, where she discussed the history of policing and the disparities within the Black community and on February 23, 2023 was featured in the ABC news documentary titled Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial which aired on Hulu. Finally, Dr. Bonnette-Bailey curated the second iteration of the conference Beyond the Culture II in February 2023. Dr. Bonnette-Bailey has been interviewed by numerous news outlets including VOX, the AJC, CBS 46, Washington Post, W.A.B.E., BBC, Atlanta Magazine, ABC News, 11 Alive News, and TheGrio among many other news outlets.

Research Interests
Hip-Hop and Politics, Racial Attitudes, Black Politics

Publications

Publications

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Scholarship-Books

Bonnette, Lakeyta M. 2015. Pulse of the People: Political Rap and Black Politics. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press.

For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice (with Adolphus G. Belk, Jr;) (Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press).

Scholarship- Articles

Bonnette-Bailey and Nadia E. Brown. “Do the Ladies Run This Mutha? The Relationship Between Political Rap and Black Feminist Attitudes.” (2019). New Political Science. DOI: 10.1080/07393148.2018.1558034 (https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2018.1558034)

Bonnette-Bailey, Ray Block, Jr. and Harwood McClerking. (2019). “Imagining a Better World: Rap Music Skepticism and the Civic Activism of Young African Americans.” Du Bois Review. 15:2 353-285. Published online April 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X18000322)

Bonnette, Lakeyta M. 2012. “Behind the Music: Black Political Attitudes and Political Rap Music.” Ethnic Studies Review, 35:1-2 157-173

Bonnette, Lakeyta, Sarah Gershon and Precious Hall. 2012. “Free Your Mind: Contemporary Racial Attitudes and Post Racial Theory” Ethnic Studies Review, 35:1-2 71-87.

Scholarship- Book Chapters

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta. “Introduction,” in Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture, eds. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey and Jonathan Gayles, Routledge Press. (February 2023).

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta M., Lestina Dongo, Kierra Lawrence, Noah Nelson. “Fight the Power: Black Music's Response to Police Brutality and other Forms of State Sanctioned Violence,” in

Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture, eds. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey and Jonathan Gayles, Routledge Press. (February 2023).

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta. “That’s Not Political Science: Disrupting “Traditional” Political Science Inquiries,” in Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Transforming the Discipline, ed. Angela Lewis-Maddox. (Forthcoming).

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta M. and Lestina Dongo. (Forthcoming). “Hood Politics: Hip-Hop and Its Political Voice,” in Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, eds. Noriko Manabe and Eric Drott, Oxford University Press.

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta M. 2022. “Outro: The Beautiful Struggle,” in For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice, eds. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr. University of Michigan Press.

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta M., Lestina Dongo and Michael Westberg. 2022. “This is America: Hip-Hop and the Black Lives Matter Movement,” in For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice, eds. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr. University of Michigan Press.

Orey, Byron D’Andra, Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey and Athena King. 2017. “From King to Obama: The Racial Norm for White Americans,” in Contemporary Public Policy and Social Development in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Through the Prism of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Dream, eds. Michael L. Clemons, Donathan I. Brown, and William H.L. Dorsey), University Press of Mississippi. Pp. (129-151).

Projects and Manuscripts in Progress

What’s on Your Radio? Rap Music and Racial Attitudes. (Book Manuscript, In Progress).

“Music, Racial Trauma and Psychoanalysis.” (Book Chapter)

Video Interviews and Conferences

The Conversation. “Rap Music’s Path from Pariah to Pulitzer.” Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey. April 24, 2018.

“The Intersection: Where Black Popular Culture Meets Social Justice” (with Lisa Ferrell and Booker Edwards) (Podcast).
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“The Political Impact of Rap Music” TedX Presentation. Georgia State University. November 8, 2019.

Scripps News. “Turntables to Trendsetters. News Special. August 26, 2023.

Hulu. ABC News Studio. “Rap Trap: Hip Hop on Trial.” Documentary. Released February 2023.

WABE. A Closer Look with Rose Scott. “GSU Conference Explores Hip-Hop and Popular Culture’s Influence on Social Justice". LaShawn Hudson/Rose Scott. February 6, 2023.

WSB-TV. “GSU hip-hop culture professor says Takeoff’s death isn’t a rap problem, it’s a human issue.” Justin Carter. November 2, 2022.

11Alive. “Rapper Takeoff’s death sparks debate about violence in hip-hop community.” Bobeth Yates. November 2, 2022.

NBC News. “’Extremely devastated’: Those close to Takeoff mourn his loss but pay homage, too.” Char Adams. November 2, 2022.

Grady Newsource. “Update on Migos Rapper Shooting.” Ben McKettrick. November 2, 2022.

Yahoo News. “GSU Professor says Takeoff’s passing isn’t a rap issue but a human one.” Megan Ambers. November 2, 2022.

The Straits Times. “In new album, Kendrick Lamar delivers introspection and biting social critique.” May 15, 2022.

WABE. A Closer Look with Rose Scott. “GSU host author Joan Morgan as part of grant-funded project on Intersectionality in the South.” Closer Look Staff. October 21, 2022.

Bounce TV. “Protect or Neglect.” Documentary. October 27, 2021.

Atlanta Magazine. “Southern women in hip-hop are having a moment.” Kelundra Smith. August 19, 2021. "

GSU News. “Georgia State Hip Hop and the Law Course Examines the Intersection of Music and Resistance. Kelundra Smith. February 26, 2021.

Runoffs.” Deena Zaru. January 5, 2021.

The Lily. “‘I’m Speaking’: Experts break down the tension in Kamala Harris’s quest for equal time.” Lateshia Beachum. October 8, 2020.

BBC. “Is Kanye West Really Running for US President?” Kavita Puri. October 1, 2020

Vox. “NBA Players Stopped Playoff Games to Protest the Jacob Blake Shooting.” Dylan Scott. August 27, 2020.

Vox. “The Contradictory Republican Case to Black Voters- and Why it Matters. Dylan Scott. August 26, 2020

11 Alive News. “Women Celebrate 100 Years of Voting While Pledging Support for President Trump.” August 26, 2020.

CGTN America. “The Role of Kanye West in U.S. Politics and Industry.” Live Interview. August 25, 2020.

Vox. “Kanye West is running for president- seriously." Dylan Scott. August 17, 2020.

Diario de Noticias. “Beyonce. The reimagination of African royalty in a divided America.” Ana Rita Guerra. August 15, 2020.

DH LES Sports. “Kendrick Lamar, 2Pac, NWA, Childish Gambino: Rap as a Tool of Resistance.” Louise Hermant. June 27, 2020.

TheGrio. “Who should Joe Biden pick as his VP running mate? (Hint, it should be a Black woman).” Christina Greer. March 27, 2020.

Arts and Sciences Matter Podcast. GSU College of Arts and Sciences. “Political Rap and Racial Attitudes.” January 1, 2020.

Sound Field. PBS. “Who invented Trap Music?” February 28, 2019.

88.5 GPB News. On Second Thought (with Virginia Prescott). February 27, 2019.

PsyPost. “Exposure to Rap Music Influences African Americans’ attitudes about Black Feminism, Study Finds.” Eric W. Dolan. January 12, 2019.

90.1 W.A.B.E. A Closer Look with Rose Scott. "Outside Influences on Georgia Midterms: Talking Politics in the Workplace." November 5, 2018.

Capital News Service. (CNS). “The Evolution of Conscious Hip-Hop.” Ashley O’Connor.

Reuters. “Obama Warns Against Fear, Trump Touts Economy on Campaign Trail.” Jeff Mason and Joe Skipper. November 2, 2018.

The Washington Post. “Atlanta Rappers are Backing Stacy Abrams. And it All Goes Back to Young Jeezy.” Christina Lee. November 1, 2018.

Campus Reform. “University Sponsors Hip-Hop and Social Justice Conference.” Toni Airaksinen. July 12, 2017.

88.5 WMNF. From A Woman’s Point of View (with Mary Glenney). February 18, 2016.

The Washington Post “Beyonce’s Super Bowl Show Bringing both Praise and Criticism” Jesse J. Holland. February 8, 2016."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Far Reaching Change in America, but How Far?” Victoria Loe Hicks. June 27, 2015.

Salon. “Barack Obama’s Hip Hop Fandom: “In my first term I sang Al Green, In my Second term I’m going with Young Jeezy.” Lakeyta M. Bonnette. April 10, 2015. "

Atlanta BlackStar. “What Does GOP Control for the House and the Senate Mean for the Black Community?” Taylor Gordon. November 5, 2014.

GPB News. On Second Thought. Celeste Headlee. June 30, 2015.

CBS 46 Election Coverage 2014. “Political Expert.” Georgia and National Elections 2014.

Articles

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta M. and Jonathan Gayles (Eds). (February 2023). Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture. Routledge Press.

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta M. and Adolphus Belk Jr (Eds). 2022. For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice. Ann Arbor: Michigan. University of Michigan Press.

Bonnette, Lakeyta M. 2015. Pulse of the People: Political Rap and Black Politics. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bonnette-Bailey and Nadia E. Brown. “Do the Ladies Run This Mutha? The Relationship Between Political Rap and Black Feminist Attitudes.” (2019). New Political Science. DOI: 10.1080/07393148.2018.1558034

Bonnette, Lakeyta M. 2012. “Black Political Attitudes and Political Rap Music.” (2012). Ethnic Studies Review, 35:1-2 157-173 "https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2012.35.1.157/

Bonnette, Lakeyta, Sarah Gershon and Precious Hall. 2012. “Free Your Mind: Contemporary Racial Attitudes and Post Racial Theory” Ethnic Studies Review, 35:1-2 71-87. "https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2012.35.1.71/

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta, Lestina Dongo “I’m Not Racist: Political Rap and Attitudes of Equality.” (Revise and Resubmit). National Review of Black Politics.

Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta and Lavar Pope. “Racism and Rap Activism During the Obama Years” (Revise and Resubmit). Journal of Popular Culture.

Bonnette, Lakeyta M. 2012. “Black Political Attitudes and Political Rap Music.” (2012). Ethnic Studies Review, 35:1-2 157-173 (https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2012.35.1.157)

Bonnette, Lakeyta, Sarah Gershon and Precious Hall. 2012. “Free Your Mind: Contemporary Racial Attitudes and Post Racial Theory” Ethnic Studies Review, 35:1-2 71-87. (https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2012.35.1.71)

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