Talks
“Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities: A Racial-Caste-in-Class,” July 15, 2014 Nottingham University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
“The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System,” 30th Annual National Council of Black Studies (NCBS) Conference, March 5-8, 2014 University of Miami, FL.
“Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Economies: The Case of Black Academic Underachievement,” March 17th, 2013, Jamaican High Commission, London, United Kingdom.
“Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Economies: The Case of Black Academic Underachievement,” January 15, 2013, British Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom.
“Oppositional Culture Theory,” Keynote Speaker, August 1, 2010, Wolverhampton University, Birmingham United Kingdom.
“Oppositional Culture Theory,” Faculty Lecture Series, March 17, 2010, West Virginia State University Institute, WV.
“The Liberal Black Protestant Bourgeois Male: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Barack Obama,” Faculty Lecture Series, September 17, 2009, West Virginia State University Institute, WV.
“The Gentrification of Africa in the Contemporary Capitalist World-System,” 6th Annual Global Studies Association (GSA) Conference, May 12-14, 2006 DePaul University Chicago, IL.
“Beyond Master and Slave, Subject/Object, Self/Other in the Contemporary World-System: A Critical Understanding of Identity Construction and the Islamist Movements,”30th Conference of the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), April 27 – 29, 2006 Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Who Makes Race Matter in Postindustrial Capitalist America,” International Sociological Association Conference 2006 (ISA 2006), July 23-29, 2006 International Conference Centre (ICC), Durban, South Africa
“Theorizing About Black Underachievement in Post-Industrial America,” 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 11-14, 2007 University of Hawaii.
“Pedagogy in Globalization,” 1st Annual Education Conference, July 12-14, 2003 Chalmers Lindholmen Goteberg, Sweden.