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Xavier Pickett

Dr. Xavier Pickett is currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at NC State University. His research focuses on African American religion, politics, emotions, ethics, and social movements like Black Power and #BlackLivesMatter.

Essays

What’s Faith Got to Do with Political Theory/Theology?

This essay reclaims the value and role of faith in Shulman’s political theology and shows why it is important for wrestling with our contemporary political realities.

Humanity beyond the human: Theorizing War with Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said

I am interested in this sense of the ordinary, ongoing strike. This humble strike—not necessarily modest but rather close to the ground—could involve a politics of refusal and boycott, where those terms could be understood not only as negatives, but also as holding space for a new international community, and thus connecting explicitly something already connected or entangled in practice.