Maxwell G. Burkey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Alex Zamalin is Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the author of Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism, which was named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Title by the American Library Association, and coeditor (with Alix L. Olson) of The Art of Anti-Racism: Aesthetics, Race, and Contemporary Political Theory, also published by SUNY Press.