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Writer and associate professor of African American Studies and African American History at Emerson College’s Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies.

MY SOUL IS A WITNESS

A book on the afterlife of lynching, told through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma

ESSAYS & Interviews

Short pieces and interviews published in Raritan, Rethinking History, Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere

PUBLIC TALKS

Invited lectures on topics in African American studies, cultural studies, and history

CURRICULUM VITAE

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“I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I’m forced to be an optimist. I’m forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive. But the Negro in this country—the future of the Negro in this country is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country. It is entirely up to the American people—and our representatives—it is entirely up to the American people whether or not they’re going to face, and deal with, and embrace this stranger whom they maligned so long.”

James Baldwin