Alex Zamalin is Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. He is the author of 6 books: All is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster (2022); Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility (2021); Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (2019), which was named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Title by the American Library Association; Antiracism: An Introduction (2019); Struggle on their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (2017); and African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (2015). He is co-editor for a collection of scholarly essays aimed at reinterpreting the American political tradition, American Political Thought: An Alternative View (2017). His scholarly essays have appeared in various edited book collections and journals like New Political Science, Contemporary Political Theory and Political Theory. Zamalin has been a guest on NPR and MSNBC, and his work has been featured in The Guardian, ESPN's Undefeated, the Christian Science Monitor and YES! magazine.