Brandon M. Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University. He has written or provided commentary for NPR, WGBH, the Huffington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Point, the Nation, Time, MTV News, and more. His broader academic interests include Black intellectual and political thought, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, the philosophy of race and racism, questions of poverty, crime, and incarceration in political and social theory, and the aesthetics and sociology of hip-hop and black youth culture.