Peter James Hudson is a historian who teaches in the Department of Geography at UBC. His research interests are in the political economy of capitalism, especially as that history intersects with racism and imperialism, and in twentieth century Black political and intellectual history. Hudson is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean and is currently working on two projects: Black Marxisms: A Global History and George Padmore and the Pan-African Century. Hudson was born in Edmonton, grew up in Vancouver, studied in New York City, and has taught in Buffalo, Nashville, and Los Angeles.