Justin L. Mann is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. His manuscript-in-progress, “Breaking the World: Blackness and Insecurity in the New World Order” argues that black speculative fiction is an essential but overlooked archive for understanding security policy since the Reagan Administration. Mann argues that the worldbreaking work black SF authors including Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead, and N.K. Jemisin imagine in their writing offers key insights to imagining black insecurity in the contemporary moment. Mann’s work has appeared in Feminist Studies, Feminist Theory, and Surveillance & Society.