Christopher A. McAuley is associate professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. McAuley's areas of research are northern and so...view moreChristopher A. McAuley is associate professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. McAuley's areas of research are northern and southern African Politics, world systems theory, Black intellectual history, Caribbean and Latin American political economy and economic history of the Americas. In 1990 he received the Ford Foundation and Center for African-American and African Studies (CAAS), University of Michigan Summer Research Fellowship in Ghana. He is the author of The Mind of Oliver C. Cox (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).view less