Marc D. Perry

Dr. Marc D. Perry is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and African American Studies Program Coordinator in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio. A cultural anthropologist, his scholarship explores the crossroads of black performance and culture-making, antiracism, and market economies in the U.S., Circum-Caribbean, and broader African Diaspora. His first book Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba (Duke 2016) examines Cuba’s hip hop movement as a lens into the complexities of race, music, and social transformation on the island. He is currently completing his second book, Black Trades: Cultural Performance & Economies of Race in New Orleans with Columbia University Press, exploring the city’s racial dynamics through African American cultural practice, structural violence, and the marketing of Black culture, bodies, and space. Dr. Perry is currently a recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2025-26.