Tryon P. Woods

Tryon P. Woods teaches Crime & Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Africana Studies at Brown University, and Black Studies at Providence College. His research addresses the sexual violence of antiblackness, both within U.S. politics and legal discourse, and within the leading discourses on globalization and post-colonialism in Africa.

The sadism of anti-trafficking and the erasure of racial slavery

This debate has failed to engage with the enduring structure of racial slavery. As representations of African migrants in the Mediterranean illustrate, anti-trafficking campaigns feed into the problem they aim to dismantle.

By Tryon P. Woods and P. Khalil Saucier

/ 20 Jun 2019

The sadism of anti-trafficking and the erasure of racial slavery

Slavery’s afterlife in the Euro-Mediterranean basin

Invisible to even the most progressive Europeans, antiblackness is the foundation from which to understand the tragedies now occurring in the Mediterranean Basin.

By Tryon P. Woods and P. Khalil Saucier

/ 19 Jun 2015

Slavery’s afterlife in the Euro-Mediterranean basin

Invisible to even the most progressive Europeans, antiblackness is the foundation from which to understand the tragedies now occurring in the Mediterranean Basin.

By Tryon P. Woods and P. Khalil Saucier

/ 19 Jun 2015

The antiblackness of 'modern-day slavery' abolitionism

Antiblack racism underwrites the contemporary movement against “modern-day slavery.” The anti-slavery movement is haunted by the specter of racial slavery even while it feeds off it parasitically.

By Tryon P. Woods

/ 10 Oct 2014

The antiblackness of 'modern-day slavery' abolitionism

By Tryon P. Woods

/ 10 Oct 2014