Ousmane K. Power-Greene is the Program Director of Africana Studies and an Associate Professor of History at Clark University. Power-Greene is the author of Against Wind and Tide- The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement, and his writing appears in The Harlem Renaissance Revisited- Politics, Arts, and Letters. He's been featured on All Things Considered, C-SPAN Book TV, and NPR's history podcast Throughline.
Ousmane K. Power-Greene is a writer who always thrills and challenges. His work is thoughtful and provocative, moving and meaningful. He's the real deal. -Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling Praise for Against Wind and Tide: Power-Greene's Against Wind and Tide is successful in engaging the historical literature on emigration and colonization and in revealing the schemes mounted by racist colonizationists and the black and white resistance to the movement. -Journal of African American History Well-written and cogently argued, Against Wind and Tide is a must-read for scholars interested in the African Colonization Movement. -American Historical Review