African American Political Thought

Alex Zamalin is Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An experienced scholar of African American political thought, race and American politics, and American culture, Zamalin is the author of several books, including African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (Palgrave, 2015), Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Columbia University Press, 2017), Antiracism: An Introduction (NYU Press, 2019) and Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia University Press, 2019). His work has been featured in the Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Literary Hub, Religion Dispatches, ESPN's Andscape and YES! magazine. His scholarly essays have appeared in various edited book collections and in journals like New Political Science, Contemporary Political Theory, and Political Theory. He has been a regular guest on NPR as well as an invited lecturer at various institutions on issues relating to antiracism, diversity, and culture, including the Boston Public Library, the University of Toronto, Wright State University, the University of Vienna, the Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Buffalo, an NEH-sponsored workshop at Seminole State College, the University of Connecticut, and Emory University.

• 1. African American political thought; 2. From resistance to refounding (1828–1877); 3. Between conservatism and public protest (1877–1919); 4. Cultural experiments and political radicalism in the interwar period (1919–1939); 5. The Black freedom struggle (1955–1968); 6. Reaction and resistance in the post-civil rights era (1968–2008); 7. From Obama to Black Lives Matter (2008–present).