Credentials
Degree
Ph.D.
Department
Sociology and Anthropology, Africana Studies
Interviewed by
9NEWS, CGTN America
Topics
African American/Black Pop Culture Racial Issues/Hate Crime Rhetoric Social JusticeExpertise
- Black social movements
- Conservative right-wing social movements
- White supremacist ideology and racist rhetoric in conservative right-wing media organizations, the politics of Hip-Hop culture
About
Devon Wright, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Sociology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His areas of expertise include Black social movements, conservative right-wing social movements, white-supremacist ideology and racist rhetoric in conservative right-wing media organizations and the politics of hip-hop culture. Wright currently teaches Politics and Black People, Social Movements and the Black Experience, and Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.
Prior to joining MSU Denver, Wright taught as a social-sciences instructor at Fort Lauderdale High School. Wright has been asked to speak on various topics, including the history of black social-protest movements, the Black Lives Matter Movement, white-supremacist hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the segregationist Citizen’s Councils of America and hip-hop culture.
He received his doctorate in Sociology and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in History, all from Florida International University.
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Politics
Social-justice advocate reflects on Colorado’s newest official holiday
MSU Denver’s Darlene Sampson, Ph.D., calls Juneteenth ‘a beacon of light that reminds us to never give up.’
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Arts and Culture
Q&A: Benin bronze heading home after 125 years
From Denver to D.C., museums are beginning to return African artwork looted in an 1897 British colonial invasion.