Khalil Ferguson is a native of Richmond, California and a graduate from Sacramento State University. Beginning his undergraduate career at the age of 16 Khalil would matriculate with a bachelor’s in international Relations and a bachelor’s in Economics.
Throughout his undergraduate career Khalil dedicated his time to alleviating socioeconomic problems that affected Black students on campus. Realizing there was a lack of support for Black students structurally and academically, Khalil partnered with administrators and fellow students to found a Black Student Union. Khalil’s involvement on campus bolstered an insatiable appetite to get to the root of socioeconomic and economic problems Black people have faced historically. Translating into a passion for his community, his service has extended into the City of Sacramento. Combatting gentrification and engendering the economic prosperity of Black people in Oak Park, South Sacramento, and Del Paso Heights has fueled his commitment to service. Amalgamating theories from the International Relations discourse and Economics to the contemporary marginalization of Black community, Khalil seeks to antiquate the repercussions of colonial economic suppression domestically as well as internationally through self-sufficient economic growth as well as neoliberal policy repudiation. This led to Khalil writing Subservience: Political and Economic Decisions that Created a Global Black Underclass. In which he connects the vestiges of colonialism and neocolonialism affecting Black people in the United States as well as in the motherland. Currently, Khalil is a fellow at California Urban Partnership, where he conducts research for economic development policy as well as cannabis equity. He also intends to continue his education, with the goal to earn a PhD in International Political Economy.
This book highlights political and economic mechanisms that have hindered global Black political and economic progression, and perpetuated Black subjugation contemporarily. Ranging from mechanisms within the United States to strategies used to extend European power on the continent which has been defined by Kwame Nkrumah as neocolonialism. Subservience is a book of my selected essays that highlight mechanics used to subjugate - economically and politically Black people throughout the Globe. You will find that Black people in America, as well as on the continent of Africa share the same socioeconomic conditions. Therefore the only way to repudiate our socioeconomic status is to extirpate the system of colonialism and neocolonialism.
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