Mireille Miller-Young is an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Her research explores race, gender, and sexuality in visual culture and sex industries in the United States.
[3] Called A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in American Pornography, the dissertation was hailed as "pioneering"[4] and was published as a book in 2014.
Miller-Young became known to a wider audience in 2014 when she assaulted a pair of teenage anti-abortion activists on campus, stealing and later destroying one of their signs.
[12][13][14] The UCSB Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Michael Young, published a letter on the incident that was interpreted as a rebuke to both sides involved in the altercation.