Tita Chico is Professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of three books, including, most recently, On Wonder (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

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Writing on Public Books
“Radical Powers of Metamorphosis”: On Global Black Cinema
As we follow the camera’s quiet, careful study, we observe—as Fred Moten reflects—that the slave ship also contains the means of its own undoing.
Antiracist Praxis
Antiracism challenges us to wholly reimagine what it means to study human and inhuman conditions in their various forms.











