Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Atlantic World
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Economy, Technology and Society
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- United States
Areas of Interest
Black deviance; gender and racial capitalism; Black radical tradition; Black Marxism; slavery in the Atlantic world
Major and Minor Fields
Major
- History of Gender, Slavery, and Racial Capitalism
- 20th Century U.S. History
Working Dissertation
Title
Supervisors
Description
Khaleel's dissertation investigates the dishonoured communities of Black subjects who operated in the fringes, slums, and undergrounds of post-WWII New York City. Grandmothers who trafficked narcotics, the "junkies" who used drugs, juvenile delinquents, thieves, and stubborn loiterers all comprised a pestilent swarm engaged in practices of Black deviance that remained marginal to studies of African American history and excluded from even the most radical conceptualizations of Black politics.
The silences surrounding Black subjects who rejected the trappings of racial uplift, social reform, and revolution present a challenge to guiding principles of African American studies that often impose a reading of Black history that privileges those who are "striving." Khaleel's research draws on various primary sources housed in multiple archives to excavate the irreverent practices and subjectivities that comprise what they call the Black Deviant Tradition.
Biography
Khaleel Grant is a doctoral candidate in History and the collaborative specialization program at the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Their research encompasses various areas, including gender, slavery, and racial capitalism in North America and the Caribbean. Additionally, they study 20th-century U.S. history, the cultural, social, and political history of Black urban deviance, and the Black radical tradition across the African diaspora.
Awards
Education
Cohort
- 2020-2021