Charles F. Peterson is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA. Dr. Peterson writes on Africana political theory and aesthetics, and is a co-editor of Sons of Lovers: An Anthology of Poetry by Black Men (2000) and  De-Colonizing the Academy (2003), and author of DuBois, Fanon and Cabral: The Margins of Anti-Colonial Leadership (2007). He lives in Oberlin, OH where he has served as a five-term City Councilperson.

• 1. Citizenship and Its Discontents: Introduction to Beyond Civil Disobedience—Social Nullification and Black Citizenship.- 2. “’Is It Not Wrong, a Balance Which Tilts, a Plummet Which Deflects”: A Survey of Social Contract Theory.- 3. Crises of Legitimacy and Social Nullification Theory.- 4. The Severed Bond: Policy and the Materiality of the Failing State.- 5. “To Establish a Different Order of Things”: Reconstructions of Afri-Civic Identity.- 6. Conclusion: The Call of a Different Drummer.