This conversation is with Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor of media, culture, and identity in the Department of Communication & Journalism and a faculty associate in the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University. He researches Black life, media, and popular culture in the Global South, with a particular focus on Brazil and Latin America. Dr. Henson received his PhD in Communications & Media with distinction from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates in both Latin American & Caribbean studies and cultural studies & interpretive theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a co-editor of the book Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization. His single-authored book Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil will be published this fall with University of Texas Press. He also serves on the Executive Board for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. He is an avid fan of Esporte Clube Bahia in the Brazilian football league.