Walton Muyumba
Walton Muyumba is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism. He is a visiting associate professor in the Departments of African Cultural Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Institutional Denial of Civil Rights
Brando Simeo Starkey’s Their Accomplices Wore Robes provides a devastating critique and analysis of the Supreme Court’s role in preserving a racial caste system.
Double Play in ‘The Sympathizer’
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s first novel arises out of a vast archive of literature, including Asian American, African American, immigrant, and postcolonial writing.
Danzy Senna’s Dark Tragicomedies
Colored Television, the California Book Club’s September selection, explores and interrogates mixed-race identity, anti-Black structures, class aspirations, and conspicuous consumption in America.
Building a Cross-Border Resistance Movement
In Bad Mexicans, the September California Book Club selection, Kelly Lytle Hernández unfolds a vital piece of global history.
