# Section I: Introduction  
Carole BOYCE-DAVIS is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English. She is a member of the scientific committee for UNESCO's updated General History of Africa and edited the epistemological forum on "Global Blackness" for the African Diaspora volume. She is a past president of the Caribbean Studies Association which organized under her leadership the first CSA Conference in Haiti in 2016.