## Section I: Chapter 3  
Jesse BENJAMIN, Ph.D., is a research scholar on race at the Radow Institute for Social Equity (RISE), and a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. He is cultural anthropologist (M.A. 1996) and world historical systems sociologist (Ph.D. 2002, SUNY Binghamton) with interests in the sociology of race, Pan-Africanism, epistemology, coloniality, and political economy. He is a Board member at the Walter Rodney Foundation, where he founded the Walter Rodney Public Speakers series, and has won numerous awards for his scholarship, teaching, diversity leadership and community engagement.