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Clarence Lusane (born 1953) is an American author, activist, lecturer and freelance journalist. His most recent major work is his book The Black History of the White House.
Lusane is the former editor of the journal Black Political Agenda, and has edited newsletters for a number of national non-profit organizations. He is a national columnist for the Black Voices syndicated news network, and his writings have appeared in The Black Scholar, Race & Class, The Washington Post, Oakland Tribune, CovertAction Quarterly, Z Communications, Radical History Journal and many other publications.
Lusane is the former chairman of the board of the National Alliance of Third World Journalists. As a journalist, he has traveled to numerous countries to investigate the political and social circumstances or crises faced by those nations. Various nations that he has reported on include Cuba, Egypt, Mexico, Jamaica, the Netherlands, North Korea, Italy, and South Africa.
Lusane is an associate professor of political science at American University's School of International Service, where he teaches courses in comparative race relations, modern social movements, comparative politics of Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, black political theory and political behavior, international drug politics, and jazz and international relations. Lusane has lectured at numerous universities nationwide, including Harvard University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago and Yale University, among others. He has also lectured on US race relations in numerous foreign nations, including Colombia, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Japan, the Netherlands, Panama, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe.
Lusane's current research interests are in international race politics, human rights, and Election. He is currently conducting research on the intersection of jazz and international relations. This work examines how jazz has been politically and ideologically appropriated by a wide range of social groups in the international community.
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