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Zandria F. Robinson
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Zandria F. Robinson is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Black Studies at Georgetown University. A writer and ethnographer whose work explores race, gender, sound, spirituality, and the relationships between the living and the dead, she is the author of This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (2014) and co-author of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (2018). Her scholarship examines race, place, popular culture, and Black life in the American South. Her writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, NPR, and The New York Times Magazine. Her forthcoming ancestral memoir, Listening for the Dead (2028), explores memory, ancestry, and the lives of the departed.