{"id":17756,"date":"2020-07-08T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=17756"},"modified":"2020-07-08T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T17:01:31","slug":"louis-chude-sokei","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/profile\/louis-chude-sokei\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Chude-Sokei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar whose work ranges widely in and around the literary, political and cultural phenomena of the African Diaspora.\u00a0 Scholarly work includes the award-winning, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2006), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2016) and the forthcoming, Dr. Satan\u2019s Echo Chamber and Other Essays (Wesleyan University Press). Also imminent is a memoir with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that traces his intellectual development across multiple nations and distinct Black cultures. Chude-Sokei is the Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest journals of Black Studies, which was this year ranked by Princeton Journal reviews as the #1 journal of Black Studies in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17758,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17756\/revisions\/17758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}