Today’s conversation is with Khalil Saucier, who teaches in the Department of Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. Along with a number of scholarly articles and short pieces, he is the author of Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (2015), co-author of African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism (2024), and has done editorial work producing important volumes including most recently A Luta Continua: Reintroducing Amilcar Cabral to a New Generation of Thinkers (2016), Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation Theory (2016), and The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (2021). In this conversation, we discuss transnational study and the Black Studies imagination, the political significance of the study of Black life, and the transformation of disciplines when put in contact with Black Studies sensibilities.