Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey
American academic
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Dr. Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey is an American political scientist and academic who serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Howard University. Her research focuses on hip hop and popular culture, political behavior, African American politics, Black women and politics, political psychology, and public opinion.
Prior to joining Howard University, Bonnette-Bailey was a professor at Georgia State University, where she held appointments in Africana Studies and Political Science and served in leadership roles including co-director of the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni and founding director of the Hip-Hop Studies Consortium. She was also a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow and W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
Bonnette-Bailey is the author of Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics and the co-editor of For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice and Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture. Her published work examines the relationship between rap music, racial attitudes, Black political thought, and social justice.
Her academic and public work includes conference organizing, invited lectures, media commentary, and podcasting on hip hop, race, and politics.
Biography
Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey, born Lakeyta Monique Bonnette, received her B.A. at Winthrop University and her Ph.D. from Ohio State University, where she studied the role of rap music in African-American politics.[1]
Her monograph Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics was published by U of Pennsylvania P in 2015. The book investigates the influence of rap music on political views and attitudes among African Americans, paying particular attention to political hip hop.[2] In 2019, she presented a TedX talk entitled “The Political Impact of Rap Music.”