Hampshire College

Christopher Tinson, assistant professor of African American studies, earned a Ph.D. from the W.E.B. Du Bois department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds an M.A. in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University and a B.A. from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Professor Tinson's interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include black radical traditions, pan-Africanism and black internationalism, Hip-Hop culture, race and sports, and media studies.

His recently taught courses include Black Radicalism in the U.S. and Beyond, 1960s and 1970s; and Framing Blackness: African Americans and Mass Media in the U.S. In addition to offering an introductory African American studies course, his new courses include Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing, Imprisonment and the Politics of Control; and More Than A Check: African Americans and the Politics of Reparations.

Affiliations
School of Critical Social Inquiry

Recent Courses
CSI-0234: African Americans and the Politics of Reparations (Spring 2012)
CSI-0116: Cultures of the African Diaspora (Spring 2012)
CSI-0229: Black Radicalism in the U.S. and Beyond, 1960s and 70s (Fall 2011)
CSI-0117: Freedom Dreams: Introduction to African American Studies (Fall 2011)