Benjamin Slightom

Benjamin M. Slightom is a doctoral candidate in the joint degree program in Anthropology and African American Studies. His research interests sit at the intersection of labor, gender, and racialized economy in the United States. His fieldwork investigates the racialized consequences of the nonprofit aid economy in Detroit, Michigan from the perspective of low-income Black women informally organizing around homelessness and housing aid, underscoring the forms of racialized dispossession and gendered carcerality nonprofit corporations depend, and profit, upon.