Veronica Newton

Dr. Veronica A. Newton is an ethnographic qualitative researcher who utilizes a critical race feminist perspective to examine how systems of oppression impact Black women’s lived experiences from an intersectional standpoint. Her research serves to highlight the importance of examining interlocking systems of oppression, such as racism and patriarchy within higher education and how they impact Black women's college experiences. Her research projects include a co-authored book with her Black feminist colleagues, titled: The-Sociology-of-Cardi-B-A-Trap-Feminist-Approach/Green-McDonald-Newton-Robinson-Rosado which will be released with Routledge Press in August of 2024.

Dr. Newton’s collaborative work at GSU includes the role of Co-PI along with several faculty from the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. She joined a RADXUP NIH grant in 2020 which focused on the barriers in COVID-19 testing among Black Americans in Atlanta. As the qualitative race scholar on the grant with intersectional research experience, the team were able to explore and analyze multiple factors that contribute to the barriers and motivations for taking a COVID test among Black folks across genders, class, age and other intersections.

Overall Dr. Newton’s research agenda works at the intersection of racism and patriarchy from black feminists and womanist standpoints. Her research examines gendered racial microaggressions, colorist microaggression and the discrimination that Black college women experience from an intersectional perspective. Dr. Newton has an advanced book contract for her solo authored book with SUNY Press: Critical Race Studies in Education Series titled: There’s Racism in the Building and Patriarchy in the Yard: Black Women Navigate Discrimination at a White University. This book takes a critical race feminist approach to examine how racism and patriarchy or gendered racism impacts Black undergraduate women’s college experiences from an intersectional standpoint. Her book will help reshape the discourse on racism in higher education by including an interrogation of patriarchy as an interlocking system of oppression at white public universities.

Research Interests

Dr. Veronica Newton’s current research project uses intersectionality and black feminism as a pedagogy to explore school connectedness among Black undergraduate women. I explore how black women centered classrooms can become Black womanist spaces for Black undergraduate women at minority serving institutions. The work aims to demonstrate the importance of Black women’s spaces on campus by centering Black women’s classroom experiences.
Dr. Newton’s teaching interests include critical race theory, qualitative methods, African American women’s studies, and Black feminisms