Rinaldo Walcott is a Canadian academic, writer, and a Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. He holds the Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies. Thank you to Episode 98’s guest, Lyndon K. Gill, for connecting us. Rinaldo's published works include The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom and On Property (2021), BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom with Idil Abdillahi (2019), Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (2016), and Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada (1997 and 2003).
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