Christopher Paul Harris with Jelani Ince

Christopher Paul Harris is assistant professor of Global and International Studies at University of California, Irvine. His work aims to understand the political lives, thought, and cultures of the Black diaspora and the underlying forces that shape them. Harris earned his Ph.D. in politics and historical studies from The New School for Social Research. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. To Build a Black Future is his first book.

Jelani Ince is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. His research employs the lens of cultural sociology, qualitative methods, and computational methods to examine racial inequality in formal organizations and the political process. His main work draws on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with attendees of an interracial church in St. Louis, MO to illustrate how the power to define interactional situations impedes the success of racial diversity efforts. He also studies how the Movement for Black Lives shifts public discourse about racial inequality and uses social media to deploy pertinent movement ideas about antiracism, joy, and resistance.

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