Sheldon GeorgeSheldon George is Professor of Africana Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His scholarship focuses on race and racism through a study of culture, literature and theory. George is an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture ad Society and chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the forum, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (2016); co-editor, with Derek Hook, of Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory (2021); and co-editor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form (2020). Read More Read Less