Ibrahim Sundiata is emeritus professor of African/Afro-American studies and history at Brandeis University. His interests are social justice in comparative perspective as reflected through the prisms of class, gender, color, and sexuality. He is former chair of the History Department at Howard University and a past fellow of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard. Sundiata is the author of four books. He is currently working on two: “Not Out of Dixie: Obama and the American Identity Crisis” and “Bioko: Labor, Identity, and Oil in the Black Atlantic.”