Dr Maziki Thame is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, United States. Her research focuses on the post-colonial Caribbean and the place of race, class, violence, radicalism, identity and gender in political life. She completed her PhD at the University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI) and worked for several years in the Department of Government and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at The UWI. Dr Thame's most recent publications include: 'Woman Out of Place: Portia Simpson-Miller and Middle-Class Politics in Jamaica'; 'Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice', edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd; and 'Racial Hierarchy and the Elevation of Brownness in Creole Nationalism', in journal, Small Axe 54.