Westenley Alcenat is a scholar, teacher, mentor, and academic consultant. He is an Assistant Professor of History, Urban Studies & American Studies at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY and teaches courses on nineteenth century United States, Atlantic, and Afro-Caribbean history. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate and a Visiting Assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies (2020–2021). Wes is a native of Haiti and partly grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lives in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn with his beloved pet rabbit, BB King.
Contributions to HumansandNature.org:
First as Tragedy, Then as _____
A response to “How can we live respectfully with the land and with one another?”
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Learn more about Westenley Alcenat’s teaching and read more of his writings at his website. Black Lives and the Fourth of July
Read more from Westenley Alcenat in The Nation.The Globalization of American Racial Exclusion
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