Antonia Randolph is an assistant professor of American Studies at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is a graduate of Spelman College (BA in Sociology) and Northwestern University (PhD in Sociology). Her interests include diversity discourse in education, multicultural capital, non-normative Black masculinity, and the production of misogyny in hip-hop culture. Her book The Wrong Kind of Different: Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms (Teachers College 2012) examined the hierarchies elementary school teachers constructed among students of color. She has also published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and The Feminist Wire. Her current book project, Thats My Heart: Queering Intimacy in Hip-Hop Culture, examines portrayals of Black mens intimate relationships in hip-hop culture.