I was shocked this afternoon to get the news of the apparent murder of English and African American Studies professor, Lindon Barrett. He was apparently murdered this past week in his Long Beach, CA apartment.
Barrett was a wonderful scholar, teaching English, African American literature and Comparative literature at both UC Irvine and Riverside. He's the author of the book Blackness and Value: Seeing Double and a Ford Fellow.
But more importantly he was a wonderful man and mentor. He will be greatly missed. To all his students, current and former, and to his family I offer my deepest sympathy.
For more details on Professor Barrett, see this blog entry.