Daphne Taylor Garcia

Dr. Daphne V. Taylor García (they/she) is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and is the Director of the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. Daphne received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies after which they were awarded the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Santa Barbara. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including from the Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine. Dr. García's work focuses on examining the praxis of decolonization movements and contributes to the ongoing development of that praxis. 

Professor Daphne Taylor García is especially interested in working with graduate students who focus on Third World Internationalist, US Third World Feminist, and Black and Brown Existentialist thought, as well as in the area of Critical Psychology. 

Education

Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley (2008)
University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Barbara (2008-2010).

Publications:

The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés: Decolonialism, Class, Gender, Race (Global Critical Caribbean Thought) London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018.

The Manichean division in children’s experience: Developmental psychology in an antiblack world

This article argues that a structural analysis of racism, colonialism, and capitalism must be explicit in developmental psychologists’ understanding of human ontogeny. 

Building the World of You: Fanon’s Wisdom for Ethnic Studies

This article offers an analysis of Frantz Fanon’s multiple works on building human relations in a colonial capitalist world to clarify the Ethnic Studies project as a place for building a culture that can counter dehumanization and intersubjective mistrust between racial/gendered groups.