Charisse Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her latest book is Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. She is also coauthor, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and coeditor, with Jodi Dean, of Organize, Fight, Win, Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.