P. Khalil Saucier

Educational Background

Ph. D, Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University

Research Interests

• Africana/Black Studies
• Black political history and thought
• critical migration studies
• sociology of race/racism
• sports ethnography
• Theory and sociology of knowledge

Courses Taught

CBST 199: Introduction to Critical Black Studies

CBST 225. African Migrants and European Borders

CBST 245. Guns in Black and White

CBST 280: Race, Violence, and Incarceration

CBST 295. Hip-Hop and Blackness

CBST 310: Racial Capitalism

CBST 315: Race, Sports, and Politics

Selected Publications

Books

African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism, with Tryon P. Woods (Lexington Books (Challenging Migration Studies Series), 2024).

(Co-Editor, known as The Black Mediterranean Collective) The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship, (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021).

(Co-Editor with Tryon Woods) Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation Theory, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Critical Africana Studies Series), 2016).

(Editor) A Luta Continua: Reintroducing Amilcar Cabral to a New Generation of Thinkers, (Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 2016). 

Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2015).

(Co-Editor with Tryon Woods) On Marronage:Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness, (Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 2015).

(Editor) Native Tongues: An African Hip Hop Reader, (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011).

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, 4^th edition, with Richard Lobban (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007).

Selected Journal Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters

“Hip Hop Studies in Black (with Tryon Woods).” That’s the Joint! The Hip Hop Studies Reader, Third edition, Edited by Murray Forman, Mark Anthony Neal, and Regina N. Bradley (Routledge, Winter 2024).

“Antiracism and Black Self-Defense in the Face of (Juridical) Catastrophe (with Adam Burgos),” Humanities (Special Issue: Global Antiracism, (Volume 13, 2, 2024)).

“The Blackness of Being (A)Part: Reconceptualizing the Study of the Black Mediterranean,” The Comparatist (Special Issue: On Reason), (Volume 47, October 2023).

“Excavating Black Power in the Mediterranean Basin: Renovations in Black Power and Political Economy (with Tryon Woods).” Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations:revisioning migrants and mobilities through the critique of anti-blackness, Edited by Philip Kretsedemas. (Temple University Press, Fall 2023)

“Carne Nera.” The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship, Edited by Gabriele Proglio, P. Khalil Saucier, et al (known as The Black Mediterranean Collective). (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020)

“Antiracism as Police Work: A Case from the Black Mediterranean.” Exertions, Special Issue on Police Work and Labor (publication for the Society for the Anthropology of Work), December 1, 2020.

“Traces of the Slave Patrol: Notes on Breed-Specific Legislation.” Drexel Law Review Volume 10, Issue 3 (2018): 673-693.

Book Series Co-Editor

With Paul Barba and Kenton Butcher and Crystal Eddins, Understanding Marronage: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Engagements, Lexington Books.