Robeson Taj P. Frazier's research interests include exploring issues pertaining to race and ethnicity, comparative political economy, popular culture, sport, globalization, and transnationalism and internationalism. He has recently completed a dissertation that examines the impact of China and Chinese communism on several black activist intellectuals from 1949-1976 and China's relationship with the African Diaspora during this period. Frazier has taught courses at New York University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and the City University of New York. He has had work published in African Americans in Global Affairs (Ed. Michael Clemons, University Press of New England/ Northeastern University Press, forthcoming 2009), as well as in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Black Arts Quarterly. He is at work on a manuscript that examines how African Americans and black culture have been received in China during the last 50 years. He obtained his doctorate in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.A. in African American Studies and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania