Alfred Frankowski is assistant professor of philosophy and African and African American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. His research and teaching interests are in Critical Race Theory, Post-Colonialism, Aesthetics, Genocide Studies, and 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy. He is author of The post-racial limits of memorialization: Toward a political sense of mourning (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) and co-editor of Rethinking Genocide in African and the African Diaspora (forthcoming).