David IkardDavid Ikard is professor and director of African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism and Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Mattes in the 21st Century, as well as coauthor of Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America. Read More Read Less