​About

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Writing in Black Studies.

Currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Knox College.

Doctorate completed at Columbia University’s Middle East, South Asia and African Studies Department (MESAAS), with a focus on African Studies. Dissertation "The Bleaching Carceral: Police, Native and Location in Nairobi, 1844-1906."  Dissertation Supervisor: Dr. Joseph Massad.

Master’s degree in African American Studies from the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia. Thesis "Subaltern Pan-Africanism: Rethinking "Race" and the "Post-colonial" state."  Supervised by Dr. Manning Marable. 

Current research interests include police power, race, colonial sexualities, white settler culture,  anti-blackness, nationalism and ideology, indigeneity as anti-colonial anarchism before Anarchism, urbanity especially in East Africa and the United States.

Teaching interests include policing, the raced city, comparative apartheids, the global black lives matter movement, the nation-form and citizen subject formation, patriotism as racist ideology, the intellectual histories and literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora.










Articles


"He was no angel: The Rallying Cry of the Lynching Bee" MiddleEastEye.net
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"To loot a Revolution" Aljazeera.com

"An Appeal -- Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History" AAIHS.org

"The Racists' Peace" Aljazeera.com

"Black liberal, Your Time is Up" Aljazeera.com

"For Ahmaud" Aljazeera.com

"Out of Pandemic Anti-Blackness, a Case for Pan-Africanism" Aljazeera.com

"'We'll Hold The Police Accountable!': The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak." AAIHS.org

 "In(Articulate) While Black" AAIHS.org

 "Meet the Candidates' Blacks" Aljazeera.com

  "Patriotism is Racist" Aljazeera.com

"There is no Relatively Benign Version of Settler-Colonialism" AAIHS.org

“Re-shelve civil rights, we need something stronger today” Aljazeera.com

“MAGA Dale is Not a Good Guy” Aljazeera.com

"The Blackface Game in the App Store You Probably Didn't Know Existed" Blavity.com ​

“Why I believe that a White Professor Using the n-word out of Academic Interest is often an Excuse to Enjoy Using the Word.”  Blavity.com 





Interviews

"On Anti-Colonial Rebellion and Pushing Back on Liberal Co-option" It's Going Down. June 12, 2020.

"No Time for Black Liberals" ThisisHell! June 9, 2020.




Short Stories

"Hansel and Grethel" The Bare Life Review. 





Doctoral Dissertation

Dissertation: “The Bleaching Carceral: Police, Native and Location in Nairobi 1844, 1906





Poetry

 Three Studies Brittle Paper

Poems SX Salon

Poems Wasafiri 

 Old Friend, We Made This for You

 Empress 




Experimental

THE OCEANIST; Diaries of a Seafarer with an Adult Doll
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