I am historian of Black History in the United States and an interdisciplinary scholar of Black Studies. My research interests range widely, but center around intellectual and social history, the connected histories of racism, capitalism, and political economy in modern America, the impact of racial capitalism on black communities, and the ways that black people have resisted these restraints. 

"We said in our introduction that man was an affirmation. We shall never stop repeating it. Yes to life. Yes to love. Yes to generosity. But man is also a negation. No to man's contempt. No to the indignity of man. To the exploitation of man. To the massacre of what is most human in man: freedom." 

--Frantz Fanon (1952)