Dr. Bryce Henson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an associate faculty in the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University. His books include the award-winning Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil as well as the edited volume, Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization. Previously, he was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Racial Studies at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Currently, he serves on the advisory board for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and is an associate editor for Transforming Anthropology.