Njoroge Njoroge
Cooperating Graduate Faculty
Degree
BA, Santa Cruz, 1995
MA, New York University, 2000
Ph.D., New York University, 2007
Areas of Interest
U.S., Caribbean and African Diaspora
Race and Critical Theory
Biography
Njoroge Njoroge is an Associate Professor of History at UHM. His research focuses on the history, music and popular culture of the African Diaspora. He teaches courses on African, African American, and Caribbean history, as well as Marxism and Cultural Studies. His work has been published in Black Expo, the Black Music Research Journal, and he edited a special issue of the journal Biography dedicated to new historical research on Malcolm X. His book Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean focused on the relationship between the music of the African diaspora to social movements in the late 19th and 20th centuries. He has co-edited a collection of essays by the late scholar Juan Flores, Juan Flores Strikes Back: Writings on Puerto Rican, Latin@, American, History and Popular Cultural Studies (Centro Press, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, forthcoming 2024). He is currently working on a new book Vibes from the Tribe: Black Power and Independent Record Labels in the United States 1960-1980.