Profile
D’Weston Haywood is Associate Professor of History at Hunter College. Haywood’s work centers on Black protest, Black intellectual history and Black political thought, and the intersections of Black culture, politics, public spheres, and the state. His award-winning book, Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement (UNC Press, 2018), traces this. The study conducts close readings of the Black press as a powerful tool of Black men’s leadership and gender and identity formation that shaped the 20th Century Black freedom struggle to wage a fight for racial justice and Black manhood. Yet, Haywood’s academic work also includes "Sonic Scholarship," an innovative scholarly and pedagogical praxis that fuses history and Hip Hop. His projects along these lines include, “The [Ferguson] Files: A Sonic Study of Racial Violence in America” (2016), examining a year of racial violence from the killing of Michael Brown to the massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church, and “MADE MEN” (2020), examining the relationship between White Nationalism, white masculinity, and American politics in the Trump era. He is currently working on two book projects, one reconsidering Elijah Muhammad’s Black Nationalism, and another reexamining Black political thought and theory and the origins of Hip Hop.