Barnor Hesse
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Black Studies, Political Science, and Sociology · Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences · Northwestern University
⭐ He welcomes PhD enquiries from students interested in:
1.Black Political Thought and Blackness within and across the Black Diaspora.
2.Histories and formations of contemporary conceptions of race, racism and anti-racism.
3.Colonialisms and Decolonialisms in Western Modernity.
4.Black Critical Theory and problems and possibilities of critique, analysis and explanation.
Research interests
Black Political Thought
Political Theory
Black Critical Theory
Critical Race Studies
Black Affect Studies
Decolonial Studies
Black Conceptual Methodologies
Selected publications (since 2023)
'Derrida’s Black Accent: Decolonial Deconstruction', in ReOrient: Critical Muslim Studies, Autumn 2023, Vol 8, No.1, pp 4-33
'Black Populism', in '2020: One Pandemic, Two Pandemics, Black Lives Matter', co-edited with Debra Thompson, South Atlantic Quarterly, July 2022, No 121: 3
'Introduction: Dispatches from Black Political Thought' (co-authored with Debra Thompson) in '2020: One Pandemic, Two Pandemics, Black Lives Matter', co-edited with Debra Thompson, South Atlantic Quarterly, July 2022, No 121: 3
'Two Concepts of White Sovereignty' in Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara and Antonia Majaca eds), 'Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War', Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Sternberg Press, 2021
'White Populism: The Constitutive Outside of Blackness', appendix in Santia
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