I have published four books, as well as several book chapters and scholarly journal articles. As a legal scholar and sociologist, my scholarship is focused on issues of race, class, and gender; critical race theory and education; women’s leadership; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in higher education.
Forthcoming April 2, 2024, Blackwildgirl.
As a poet, I perform video blogs on Menah’s Matinee: Music and Musings. The excerpt below is inspired by my mother, Dr. Mildred Pratt, one of the first Black women full professors in the 1970s. I perform a poem called, “When A Black Woman Walks Into a Room,” to celebrate Women’s History Month. Read about my life and her life in our books below:
Books Authored –
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. (2018). A Black Woman’s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
Pratt-Clarke, Menah and Maes, Johanna. (2017). Journeys of Social Justice: Women of Color Presidents in the Academy. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
Brown, Venessa and Pratt-Clarke, Menah. (2017). A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Gender in Cuba. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
My very first book was based on my dissertation and my commitment to elevating Black girls and raising visibility about issues of Black women’s race loyalty, sexism, Black nationalism, and White women’s organizations inability to effectively advocate for issues of Black girls and Black women. Fun Fact: My daughter is on the cover, raising a Black power fist!
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. (2010). Critical Race, Feminism, and Education: A Social Justice Model. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Postcolonial Studies in Education Series.
Book Chapters
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. (2023).A Black Women’s Blog Posts: Writing for Empowerment, Manifestation, and Healing. In Reinekke Lengelle & Katrin Den Elzen (Eds.). Writing the Self: Theory, Research, and Practice in Writing for Healing, Routledge.
Pratt, Menah. (2023). The personal evolution of a critical BlackGirl feminist identity: A philosophical autoethographic journey. In Alec Grant (Ed.). Writing Philosophical Autoethnography, Routledge.
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. (2014). Racial (and Gender) Battle Fatigue: The Transdisciplinary Applied Social Justice Approach. In K. Fasching-Varner and K. Albert (Eds.), But You Can’t Take Our Souls: Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. (2013). Higher education leadership: The path of a Black critical race feminist. In C. Chaney and D. Davis (Eds.), Black women in Leadership: Their Historical and Contemporary Contributions. New York: Peter Lang.
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. (2013). Doing Sociology. In K. Korgen, J. White, & S. White (Eds.), Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change and Social Justice. 2nd edition. Newbury Park, California: Pine Forge/Sage.
Pratt-Clarke, Menah, Andrea Baldwin, and Leticia Brown. (2020, October 27). Urban Teaching and Black Girls’ Pedagogies. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1349
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. Foreword in Standpoints: Black Feminist Knowledges. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Press (2020).
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. A Critical Race Feminist Autoethnography: A Narrative about the Academy, a Father, a Daughter, and a Search for Love. Journal of Colorism Studies. Vol. 3:1 (2018).
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. A Black Woman’s Search for the Transdisciplinary Applied Social Justice model: Encounters with Critical Race Feminism, Black Feminism, and Africana Studies. Journal of Pan African Studies. Vol. 5:1, 83-102 (2012).
Pratt-Clarke, Menah. Transdisciplinary Applied Social Justice and Africana Sociology: Intersections and connections. Critical Sociology: Special Edition on Africana Sociology.First published online on June 11, 2012 as doi:10.1177/0896920512443140.