Brandon James Render is an Assistant Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). His current book project, Colorblind Universities: The Making and Unmaking of Race in Higher Education, positions the civil rights and Black Power era as an intellectual movement that fundamentally reshaped how Americans think about race–on campus and beyond the ivory tower (currently under contract with UNC Press). At UTEP, he teaches courses on twentieth century U.S. history, African American Studies, and the history of social and intellectual movements. Aside from research and teaching, he Read more