I am a historian of African American History and Black History, as well as a Black Studies scholar. My research interests range widely, especially in the field of intellectual history. But my work, in some way or another, tends to cohere around the intersections of three main topics: black thought, theory and struggle, race and antiblack racism, and capitalism. My work is informed by the philosophy and goals of Black Studies. 
 

"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)