Sam Klug is a PhD student in history at Harvard University. He is completing a dissertation that examines how global decolonization reshaped understandings of racial formation, economic development, and citizenship in the United States between the Second World War and the early 1970s.
On October 15, 1968, the government of Jamaica banned a 26-year-old history professor from reentering the island nation. Walter Rodney, a lecturer at the ...