<h4>Ismail Muhammad is a PhD student in the English Department at UC Berkeley, where he studies post-’45 American literature, affect, and theories of black personality at mid-century. He (seldom) tweets at @ucismail.</h4>

Ismail Muhammad

From Outer Space, or Something: Fantasizing Capital in Contemporary Hip-Hop

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Ismail Muhammad is a PhD student in the English Department at UC Berkeley, where he studies post-’45 American literature, affect, and theories of black personality at mid-century. He (seldom) tweets at @ucismail.