Poetic Obituaries: UC Riverside's chair of the English department where [Lindon] Barrett

worked for the last year made a statement on behalf of his 'devastated' colleagues:

"A brilliant scholar, Lindon was just finishing a major book on slavery's central role in the evolution of Western modernity. Lindon offered so much, personally and professionally, to the department, the campus and the scholarly field of African American studies. The English department at UCR saw him as a bright beacon of the future."

from The Post Chronicle: Slain Professor Wrote Of Slavery, Langston Hughes 'Homoeroticism'

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