Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (2009), Look a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics (2006), and Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (2001), and the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (1993).Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (2009), Look a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics (2006), and Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (2001), and the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (1993)....more