About

P. Khalil Saucier is Professor of Africana at Bates College. He teaches classes that illustrate practices of fugitivity inflected, informed, and inspired by the black radical tradition, while most of his scholarship takes flight from the decadence of traditional disciplinary positions inclusive of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.  He is currently working on a three-part series that explores the entanglement of race, sports, and outdoor leisure. The first monograph is titled Black Frames: (Anti)Blackness and the Sport of Cycling, a book that addresses the place of cycling within black diasporic struggles for freedom and recognition within contemporary “post-racial” America. The second and third book projects are tentatively called Angling for Change: Fly Fishing and Black Lives and Hunting for Diversity: The Hidden Heritage of Black Hunters and Conservation. Both books engage with socio-cultural notions of racial and ethnic identity by exploring the ways in which black fly fishers and black hunters negotiate their identity through multiple articulations of diaspora, community, the outdoors, and more.

He is also co-editor of Bloomsbury Publishing series, Understanding Marronage: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Engagements.

In addition to his scholarship and teaching, he has presented numerous  public lectures both nationally and internationally, as well as, provided both verbal and written commentary for global and public-facing media platforms such as  National Public Radio (NPR), Open Democracy, Black Agenda Report, Bicycling Magazine, and Outside Magazine. 

Prior to coming to Bates College he was the inaugural director of the Africana Studies Program  and later the founding chair of the Department of Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. He has also served as a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Pennsylvania State University-State College, Humanities Institute and Visiting Scholar, Universität Bremen (Germany), Faculty of Languages and Literatures.

Courses Taught

• AFR 100 Introduction to Africana
• AFR 231 Race, Sports, and Politics 

Books (Authored, Co-Authored, Edited, and Co-Edited)

Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures: On Critique and Humanism (Bloomsbury Books, 2026)

Critical Essays on Hip Hop and the Study of Hip Hop: Doing the Knowledge (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2025) 

African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism (Lexington Books, 2024)

The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021)

Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation Theory (Lexington Books, 2016)

A Luta Continua: Reintroducing Amilcar Cabral to a New Generation of Thinkers (African World Press, 2016)

Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (Michigan State University Press, 2015)

On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness (African World Press, 2015)

 Native Tongues: An African Hip Hop Reader (Africa World Press, 2011).

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, 4th Edition (Scarecrow Press, 2007)

Selected Articles

“On the Drag of the Ship(ped) (with Shaida Akbarian and Tryon Woods),”  Social & Cultural Geography (Special Issue: A Dialogue Between Critical Ocean Studies and Black Studies), (Volume 27, 3, 2026): 284-301. 

“The “Lost Cause” of Cultural Studies: Laclau after Hall,”  PMLA (Special Issue: Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture at 40), (Volume 140, Issue 3, May 2025): 569-575. 

“Antiracism and  Black Self-Defense in the Face of  (Juridical) Catastrophe (with Adam Burgos),”  Humanities (Special Issue: Global Antiracism, (Volume 13, 2, 2024)) . 

“The Blackness of Being (A)Part: Reconceptualizing the Study of the Black Mediterranean,” The Comparatist (Special Issue: On Reason), (Volume 47, October 2023).