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Rinaldo Walcott

Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies
University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Black diaspora cultural and postcolonial studies, Canadian studies, queer theory, and gender studies.

Portrait of Rinaldo Walcott.

Rinaldo Walcott, PhD, is an interdisciplinary Black studies scholar. His research is in the areas of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality with an interest in nations, nationalisms, multiculturalism, policy and education. Walcott has published in a wide range of venues on subjects ranging from literature to film, theatre to music to policy.

He is the author of many books including, “Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism;” “Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada;” “Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies;” “The Long Emancipation: Moving Towards Freedom; and On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition,” which was nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award, longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards, a Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and was selected by CBC Books in 2021 as best Canadian nonfiction books of the year.

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Rinaldo Walcott, PhD
Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies
University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences

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