While my research and writing interests range widely, they unite around an abiding concern for the following: first, how, in Black, African American, and American History, racism, capitalism, and politics have mediated answers to the question of who we are and upheld structures of racial, economic, and political inequality in the process; and second, how black people have experienced the world, thought about it, and struggled over their place within it and America because of this persistent inequality and domination and their freedom dreams. I explore these concerns mainly through intellectual history and 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)