Associate Professor, University of California Los Angeles

Peter James Hudson is associate professor of African American Studies and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2017). His essays, reviews, and commentary have appeared in Black Agenda Review, Boston Review, Haiti Liberte, Small Axe, Radical History Review, Race & Class, and other venues.  Hudson is currently working on two projects: a history of the African origins of “racial capitalism,” and a political and intellectual history of pan-Africanism, tentatively titled George Padmore: Decolonization and the Pan-African Century.