Today’s conversation is with Jeanelle Hope, who teaches in and is Director of the program in African American Studies at Prairie View A&M University. Along with a number of scholarly articles, she is co-author with Bill V. Mullen of The Black Antifascist Tradition (2025). In this conversation, we discuss the anti-fascist theory and practice in the Black Studies tradition, comparative racial and ethnic study, and the importance of critical theoretical work in the history and future of the field.