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Assistant Professor, English

Professor Ford's field of research is African-American literature with a focus on the black radical aesthetic and intellectual tradition.

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Professor Ford's field of research is African-American literature with a focus on the black radical aesthetic and intellectual tradition.

Present	Assistant Professor, English, Occidental College
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Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature

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Articles (4)

“Space Is the Place”: Afrofuturist Elegy in Tracy K Smith ...

The Black Scholar (2014)

“Down by the Riverside”: Race, Class, and the Drive for ...

Novel: A Forum for Fiction (2013)

In this essay, I argue that Richard Wright's “Down by the Riverside” provides a way of examining the complex relationship ...

From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion: The Slave ...

Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society (2011)

In this article I consider the significance of the New World African slave to Marx's Capital. Although Marx frequently refers ...

Mob Rule in New Orleans: Anarchy, Governance, and Media Representation

Biography (2010)

This article deconstructs the terms "anarchy" and "mob rule," which are used to restore legitimacy to failed hegemonic structures and ...

Thinking through crisis : 1930s African American literature and politics