Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama

Dr. Saladin Ambar is Professor of Political Science and Senior Scholar at the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics. He is the award-winning author of books including Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Oxford University Press 2014). He is Co-Director of the Democracy Committee for the New Jersey Institute for Racial Justice’s Reparations Council and is presently working as a Scholarly Advisor for the Lincoln Presidential Foundation. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Daily News, Politico, NPR, Newsweek, and The Root, among other outlets.