Peter James Hudson

Peter Hudson

Peter James Hudson

Associate Professor

Email: pjhudson@ucla.edu

Office: 5351 Bunche Hall

Phone: 310-825-2347

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Biography

Associate Professor of African American Studies and History.

Peter James Hudson is a historian who completed his Ph.D. in the American Studies Program at New York University. His research interests are in the history of capitalism, white supremacy, and U.S. imperialism; the intellectual and political-economic history of the Caribbean and the Black world; and the history of Black radicalism and global anti-imperialism. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Field of Study

Twentieth Century United States, Caribbean, and African Diaspora History. History of Capitalism. History of Pan-Africanism.

Publications

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Essays and Articles

Reviews and Review Essays

  • Review of The Caribbean Memory Projectsx archipelagos 2 (July 2017).
  • The Racist Dawn of Capitalism: Unearthing the Economy of Bondage, Boston Review, March 14, 2016.
  • Review of B.W. Higman and Kathleen E.A. Monteith, eds, West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, (Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2010) and Eric Armstrong, A History of Money and Banking in Barbados, 1627-1973 (Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2010) Caribbean Studies, 40.2 (2012): 211-217.
  • A radical rereading of the life of Malcolm X: Review of Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, The Guardian (16 April 2011).

Degrees

Ph.D. American Studies, New York University, 2007