Name:	Michael Hanson, Assistant Professor mhanson@weber.ucsd.edu
Education:	Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2002 Two years as a UC Regents Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Teaching Interests :	Race and Racism; Black Cultural Politics; Race, Representation and the Media; Popular Music; Aural and Visual Culture; Sport; Race, Technology and Identity; Place, Space and Black Diasporic Culture; Afrofuturism; Urban Social Movements; Popular Culture and Expressive Practices; Epistemology; Cultural Theory
Recent Publications:	“Twoness: The Mixed Raced Body in Scopic Regimes,” Body & Society (forthcoming). “Suppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis” Popular Music (forthcoming). “I’m A Brother, But Sometimes I Don’t Feel Black: Thug-Nerds, Rap-Geeks, and the Risky Black Masculine” in Amber Wallace and Anna Everett (eds) AfroGEEKS: From Technophobia to Technophilia (Santa Barbara: Center of Black Studies/Ford Foundation, 2006). “Asphalt Stages: Street Basketball and the Performance of Blackness” in Ruth Simms Hamilton (ed) Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006).