Karen Fields

{{Short description|American sociologist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Karen E. Fields''' is an American sociologist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/authors/fields-karen-e|title=Fields, Karen E.|website=Verso}}</ref> She is the sister of historian Barbara J. Fields.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/163/article/543932|title=Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields (review)|first=Michael O.|last=West|date=July 21, 2014|journal=Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International|volume=3|issue=1|pages=75–79|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/pal.2014.0000|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

She has degrees from Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the Sorbonne.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bigthink.com/people/karen-e-fields/|title=Karen E. Fields}}</ref>

==Books== *''Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa''<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/228645|title=Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa. Karen E. Fields|first=Bryan R.|last=Wilson|date=March 7, 1987|journal=American Journal of Sociology|volume=92|issue=5|pages=1240–1242|via=CrossRef|doi=10.1086/228645|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa . KAREN E. FIELDS|first=Terence|last=Ranger|date=November 7, 1987|journal=American Ethnologist|volume=14|issue=4|pages=779–780|doi=10.1525/ae.1987.14.4.02a00140|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://academic.oup.com/socrel/article-abstract/47/4/364/1652079?redirectedFrom=fulltext | doi=10.2307/3710951 | jstor=3710951 | title=Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa | journal=Sociological Analysis | date=1987 | volume=47 | issue=4 | page=364 | last1=Breidenbach | first1=Paul S. | last2=Fields | first2=Karen E. | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *''Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir'' (with Mamie Garvin Fields)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/893688|title=From Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir by Mamie Garvin Fields and Karen E. Fields (review)|first=Anna|last=Gasha|date=July 21, 2021|journal=Future Anterior |volume=18|issue=2|pages=118–133|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/fta.2021.0019|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/19/books/new-noteworthy.html|title=NEW & NOTEWORTHY|work=The New York Times |date=May 19, 1985|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/mamie-garvin-with-karen-fields-fields/lemon-swamp-and-other-places-a-carolina-memoir/|title=Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction|website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref> *''The Elementary Forms of Religious Life'' (Translation) *''Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life'' (2012)

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