Anthony Bayani Rodriguez, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University. Rodriguez is a former scholar-in-residence at the...view moreAnthony Bayani Rodriguez, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University. Rodriguez is a former scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture in Harlem, New York City. His research explores new conceptions of “the human” that are driving the grassroots social movements of late modernity’s structurally marginalized global populations. His forthcoming book is an intellectual biography of Black studies professor, fiction writer, and radical humanist Sylvia Wynter.view less