Juan Battle

Juan Battle

C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center Professor

Juan Battle is a Professor of Sociology, Public Health, & Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.).

Prof. Battle is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His research interests include race, sexuality, and social justice. Further, he is a recent president of the Association of Black Sociologists and is actively involved with the American Sociological Association (ASA).

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Twenty-something’s should be reaching out to as many people as possible.
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The right person has to know exactly what they want to change.
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Why Juan Battle never wants to lose his enormous laugh.
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What happens when you see yourself as the flavor of the month.
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“How dare she be so strong as to not do something some females are too weak to do?”
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“We all cheat,” says Juan Battle, “but we don’t get caught and we don’t do stupid things like leave ridiculous messages on the voicemail of a cocktail waitress out of […]
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Decades after figures like Bessie Smith asserted masterful control over black female identity, some racial and sexual stereotypes refuse to die.