Karla Slocum is Thomas Willis Lambeth Chair of Public Policy, professor of anthropology, and director of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Free Trade and Freedom: Neoliberalism, Place, and Nation in the Caribbean (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West (The University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

More about the book: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653976/black-towns-black-futures/

For the transcript and recommendations for further reading: https://thinkbelt.org/shows/interstitial/black-towns-black-futures-karla-slocum