Minkah Makalani is Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He works in intellectual history, the Black radical tradition, black political thought, and social movements in the Caribbean and U.S. He is the author of In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939, and co-editor (with Davarian Baldwin) of Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem. His articles have appeared in The Journal of African American History, Souls, Small Axe, Social Text, and South Atlantic Quarterly, and the scholarly collections C. L. R. James’ Beyond a Boundary Fifty Years On and Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol. He is currently working on two projects. Calypso Conquered the World: C.L.R. James and the Politically Unimaginable in Trinidad, which examines C. L. R. James’s return to Trinidad and his work on West Indies Federation; and Words Past the Margin: Black Thinking Through the Impossible, which explores streams of black political imagination in popular culture, Black Lives Matter, Black women’s literary production, and the cinema of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène.