Xavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Director of Black Studies, and faculty affiliate with Feminist Studies and Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published widely in the fields of African Popular Culture and African Queer Studies. His 2020 book,  Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa discusses the rise of post-apartheid South African popular culture and its articulation with contemporary politics of race, gender, and sexuality and was a finalist for the African Studies Association Melville Herskovits Award. He is currently working on two projects, one examining intimacy and love among Black queer men in film and another that explores Black Queer Belonging in South Africa.

MEDIA

• Xavier Livermon on his book Kwaito Bodies for Popular Music Books in Process Series
• Hope is a Discipline: An Interview with Dr. Xavier Livermon