The Black Faces Of U.S. Empire

Black Alliance For Peace 's Jemima Pierre and Peter James Hudson react to Biden's summit of the Americas, Biden's press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and what Jemima calls "the distressing number of Black people being the face the U S empire... spouting these terrible, really anti-Black imperialist talking points for the U S government. And so the U S can hide behind these Black faces, which makes it very difficult to watch, but we definitely nevertheless need to condemn these people and their participation in pushing for the empire."

Jemima Pierre () is the Haiti/Americas CoCoordinator with the Black Alliance for Peace; an editor at the Black Agenda Report; and a professor of Black Studies and Anthropology at UCLA She is the author of The Predicament of BlacknessPostcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Her research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areasrace, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora. She is currently completing a manuscript whose working title is “Racial AmericanizationConceptualizing African Immigrants in the U.S.,” and working on a project on the racialized political economy of multinational resource extraction in Ghana. Dr. Pierre’s essays on global racial formation, Ghana, immigration, and African diaspora theory and politics have appeared in a number of academic journals including, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Review, Social Text, Identities, Cultural Dynamics, Transforming Anthropology, Journal of Haitian Studies, Latin American Perspective, American Anthropologist, and Philosophia Africana.

Peter James Hudson () is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA. His research interests are in the history of capitalism, white supremacy, and U.S. imperialism; the intellectual and politicaleconomic history of the Caribbean and the Black world; and the history of Black radicalism and global antiimperialism. He is the author of Bankers and EmpireHow Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

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