Shantee Rosado

Shantee Rosado is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Latinx Studies in the Africana Studies and Latino and Caribbean Studies departments at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She received her PhD in Sociology with a certificate in Latin American and Latino Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. Her work examines racial identities and inequalities in Latin America and among Latinos in the US, as well as Afro-Latinos in popular culture—and she engages with these topics primarily through the lenses of Black feminist and racialized emotions theorizing. Dr. Rosado's current book project, titled “Feeling Mixed: Latinos and the Emotional Politics of Race and Blackness,” examines how emotions shape the racial and political ideologies of 1.5- and second-generation Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in Central Florida. In addition to her solo-authored book project, she is the co-author of the book “The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach” (Routledge Press 2024). In 2024, Dr. Rosado began a collaborative project titled “The Emotional Rights Project,” which examines how emotions and anti-Blackness figure into police brutality legal cases. Dr. Rosado is a co-leader of Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness, a project in Rutgers’ Africana Studies department aiming to address the root causes and potential solutions to global manifestations of anti-Blackness. She is also a proud member of the Black Latinas Know Collective.

Publications:

• Rosado, Shantee (2025). “Recuerdo: Blackness, Memory, and The Racial Contract in Puerto Rico.” Centro Journal: 37(1): 21-51. The journal is available for purchase on both Amazon and CENTRO's La Bodega. Here are the Amazon and Centro store links.
• Green, Aaryn L., Maretta McDonald, Veronica A. Newton, Candice C. Robinson, and Shantee Rosado (equal authorship--2024). The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach. Routledge: New York, NY
• Rosado, Shantee. “‘My ovaries ain’t for you to bully’: Trap Feminist Rappers and the Fight for Sexual Autonomy and Reproductive Justice.” Book chapter forthcoming in edited volume The Art of Antiracism: Aesthetics, Race, and Contemporary Political Theory (Eds. Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin); forthcoming December 2025.

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• “Healing From Global Anti-Blackness: An Interactive Symposium.” Symposium co-organizer and panelist on February 28, 2025
• “Whiten the Jury, Acquit the Cop: Curtailing the Emotional Rights of Black Victims of State Violence” (co-authored with Devin Z. Williams and Tyshana Campbell). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting on August 9, 2025.
• “The State of Black Rican Studies.” Puerto Rican Studies Association Biennial Conference. Santa Cruz, CA. Invited Panelist. August 24, 2024.

Previous Organizations: 

• Williams College

Accomplishments:

• Published "The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach," which was named Honorable mention for the 2025 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association Race, Gender, and Class Section.

• Recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “Recuerdo: Blackness, Memory, and The Racial Contract in Puerto Rico.” Centro Journal: 37(1): 21-51

• Raised $43,300 in funds from ISGRJ and the Rutgers Research Council for the collaborative research and programming project "Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness"

Upcoming Projects:

• Rosado, Shantee. Feeling Mixed: Latinos and the Emotional Politics of Race and Blackness (Solo book manuscript in preparation)

• Rosado, Shantee, Devin Williams, and Tyshana Campbell. “Blackness and the Emotional Injustice of Police Brutality.” (Article in preparation)

• Rosado, Shantee. “An Emotional History of Antiblackness in Early 19th Century Puerto Rico.” The Afro-Latin@ Reader: Volume 2. Edited by Jessica Marie Johnson (Chapter under second review).

My work directly addresses social and racial justice issues by critically engaging with notions of Blackness, as both a state of subjection and a site of liberation and possibility. In my solo book monograph, Feeling Mixed: Latinxs and the Emotional Politics of Race and Blackness, I argue that emotions are crucial for understanding how Puerto Ricans and Dominicans impact, and are impacted by, anti-Black racism and white supremacy in the US. This project shows how these Caribbean Latinxs’ racialized emotions are informed by transnational racial ideologies rooted in the unique emotional histories of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the US. The book shows how these emotions motivate Latinxs to challenge or perpetuate the anti-Black and white supremacist underpinnings of the US racial hierarchy. Data for the project consists of 65 in-depth interviews with Puerto Ricans and Dominicans living in Central Florida, one of the fastest growing Latinx regions in the country and home to the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the US, as well as archival materials.