Alex Zamalin is an American educator, political scientist, social scientist, and author. He is a professor of Africana studies and political science at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has written numerous books on political theory, race, and American culture. He formerly worked as an associate professor of political science and the director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan.
Publications
Zamalin, Alex (2015). African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice. Palgrave Macmillan US. ISBN9781349553099.
Zamalin, Alex (2017). Struggle on their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance. Columbia University Press.
Zamalin, Alex (February 4, 2025). Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. ISBN9780807045190.
↑Wendland-Liu, Joel (2020). "Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism. By Alex Zamalin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 182 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80 (cloth); $26 (paper)". Journal of American Ethnic History (book review). 39 (4). University of Illinois Press.