Alex Zamalin is Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the author of numerous books, African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Palgrave, 2015), Struggle on their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), Antiracism: An Introduction (NYU Press, 2019), Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia University Press, 2019) which was named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Title by the American Library Association, and Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility (Beacon, 2021), All Is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster (Beacon Press, 2022), and with Alix Olson, The Ends of Resistance: Making and Unmaking Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2024). His latest book is Counterculture: The Story of American From Bohemia to Hip-Hop (Beacon, 2025).
Zamalin is also co-editor of Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis (Routledge: 2024) and American Political Thought: An Alternative View (New York: Routledge, 2017). His scholarly essays have appeared in various edited book collections and journals. His work has been featured in The Guardian, Literary Hub, Religion Dispatches and YES! magazine
Counterculture
The Story Of America From Bohemia To Hip-Hop
The Ends of Resistance
Making and Unmaking Democracy
All Is Not Lost
20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster
Against Civility
The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession With Civility
Black Utopia
The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism
Struggle on Their Minds
The Political Thoughts of African American Resistance
