Joan Morgan

Joan Morgan (born May 25, 1965) is a Jamaican-American author and journalist. She was born in Jamaica and raised in the South Bronx. Morgan coined the term "hip hop feminist". Early life and education Morgan was born in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, where her father was one of the founders of the Jamaica Labour Party and later was president of the Jamaican Freedom League in the Bronx. In 1968, she moved to the South Bronx neighborhood of the Bronx when she was two years old. Her father worked at Montefiore Medical Center in security and her mother, Maud Morgan, worked at Montefiore as a nurse, also teaching at the community center, Clermont Center. Morgan went to the elementary school, PS 2, on Fulton Avenue, then to junior high on 148th on Washington Avenue. During that time she went to the Clermont Center in the Clermont projects. In 1979, Morgan went to the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, where she had previously attended a summer school enrichment program. She graduated from Fieldston in 1983. In 1987, Morgan received a B.A. from Wesleyan University. During this time she went to Howard University for a semester. She was a Scholar in Residence at Vanderbilt University. In 2020, Morgan received a PhD in American Studies from New York University. Her dissertation, It's About Time We Got Off: Claiming a Pleasure Politic in Black Feminist Thought, was published thereafter. Her advisor was Jennifer L. Morgan.