Daniel McNeil Interviewed for The Reading Lists
Associate Professor Daniel McNeil was recently interviewed for The Reading Lists website. The goal of the site is to interview the world鈥檚 leading experts in all areas, whether that be the world鈥檚 leading psychologists, philosophers or perhaps a freestyle rap battle champion. Experts are then given a chance to discuss their interests and recommend books that have a profound influence for them. Below is a short excerpt of the article “” which is available online.
Daniel McNeil joined 杏吧原创 University in 2014 to help enhance the university鈥檚 research, program development and teaching in Migration and Diaspora Studies. Before joining 杏吧原创, Daniel McNeil served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University in Chicago and taught Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Hull and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. McNeil鈥檚 award-winning research contributes to the multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and antidisciplinary analysis of the African and Black Diaspora. He is also the author of , which is the first volume in Routledge鈥檚 series on the African and Black Diaspora, and disrupts regimes of representation that frame 鈥渕ixed-race鈥 subjects as pathological objects or 鈥渘ew鈥 national icons for the twenty-first century. Daniel McNeil is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Humanities and the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University. Please enjoy my interview with Daniel McNeil.