Henry Washington, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research broadly explores how dominant constructions of cultural difference help justify the persistence of inequality in the era of inclusion, as well as how minoritarian cultural forms attempt to contest these constructions and produce more complex truths about Humanness. He is at work on his first book project, Looking to Be Included: Social Science, Black Imagination, and the Culture of the Criminal, 1896-, which elucidates the shifts in the nature of power and in...
