Department of Afircan Studies Endeavors Seminar Series: “Think of this Seriously”: C. L. R. James, New World Group, and Decolonizing Black Study.”

The Department of Afircan Studies Endeavors Seminar Series presents Minkah Makalani is Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University: 

“Think of this Seriously”: C. L. R. James, New World Group, and Decolonizing Black Study.”

Minkah Makalani works in intellectual history, black political thought, the Black radical tradition, and diaspora. The author of, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939, he is at work on two manuscripts: Words Past the Margin: Essays in Black Thought and the Politically Unimaginable, and Calypso Conquered the World: C. L. R. James and the Politically Unimaginable in Trinidad.