Nicole Burrowes

Dr. Burrowes scholarship reflects and informs emerging directions in African Diaspora Studies, with a focus on 20th century Caribbean and African-American history. Her interests include social movements, racial capitalism, Black Internationalism, and the politics of solidarity.

Publications:

• Co-editor, Special Issue: “The Afterlives of Empire in the Caribbean." The NACLA Report on the Americas, August 30, 2023. https://nacla.org/afterlives-empire-caribbean

• “Walter Rodney, World Systems Analysis and Racial Capitalism.” In Beyond Inequality: New Paradigms for Addressing the Future of Work, edited by Engle, Karen, and Neville Hoad. New York: Columbia University Press. Forthcoming.

• “Building the World We Want to See: Sista II Sista and the Struggle Against State and Interpersonal Violence.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 20, no. 4 (October-December 2018): 375-398.

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• April 2023. Panelist. “Crosscurrents of the Radical Caribbean: Navigating Transnational Black Solidarities.” Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, CA.

• January 2024. Seminar Leader. “Freedom Summer.” Rutgers University, Center for Historical Analysis, Institute for High School Teachers.

• July 2024. Community Expert. Embodied Herstory Workshop on Reproductive Justice, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Previous Organizations: 

• Embody Transformation

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

• University of Texas, Austin - African and African Diaspora Studies Department

Accomplishments:

• Early Career Fellow, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice

• Co-founder, Sista II Sista Freedom School for Young Women of Color

• Social Justice Fellow, Open Society Foundations

Upcoming Projects:

• Book Manuscript - Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the Labor Rebellions in British Guiana in 1935

• Member - international interdisciplinary team: "Inter-Minority Coalition or Conflict? Identity Formation and Relations Between Asian and Black Communities in the UK and U.S.," funded by the British Academies.

• National Strategy Team - Enlarging Our Freedom: Abolition and Birthing Justice

I write and teach about the history of social movements, racial capitalism, Black Internationalism and the politics of solidarity. I also have extensive experience in community organizing for transformative justice.