 Hello, my name is Burton M. Louis, Jr. I'm an associate professor of anthropology and African-American and African studies at the University of Kentucky. And I'm a cultural anthropologist who studies Haiti and the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas. The author of a book called My Soul is in Haiti, Protestantism and the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas, where I study issues of religious conversion to Protestant forms of Christianity and understanding the Haitian diaspora transnationally as well. I'm also interested in issues of statelessness, human rights, anti-Haitianism, and race and racism. And to answer the question why anthropology? Anthropology was kind of a way for me to understand more about my own heritage growing up as a... First, as a young black person in Staten Island, New York, I was subjected to a lot of racist bullying. And at the point in my life, I really internalized those ideas of anti-blackness. And when I went off to Syracuse University as a undergrad, I took an Intro to Cultural Anthropology course. And the Intro to Cultural Anthropology course had a very provocative statement within it when we were discussing race. And they talked about race being a social construction. And for some reason I had internalized the idea that it was rooted in biology. And it was a very profound moment. And then moving on, doing well in that Intro to Cultural Anthropology course, I ended up getting an A in that course. And I decided to declare an anthropology major. And then the next semester I took a course with Horace Campbell, a Jamaican political scientist, brilliant minds called Caribbean Society Since Independence. And the first book we read in there was The Black Jackalbends by C. L. R. James. And that book had a deep, deep impact on me. In Haitian Quill, we have a phrase saying, we flap M4. Which means it really hit me really hard to know that this was part of my heritage. To be part of this successful slave revolt and resistance to white supremacy and dehumanization was very inspiring. So I married my interest in cultural anthropology, specifically its methods of participant observation to help me kind of build a Haitian identity. And just learn more about the world and learn more about people of African descent and the African diaspora.