Lindon Barrett

Lindon W. Barrett (1961–2008) was a Guyana-born literary and cultural theorist who served as a Professor of English at UC Riverside and UC Irvine, specializing in African American studies and African studies[1][4]. He died at age 46 in his Long Beach, California home on July 7, 2008, in circumstances later confirmed by autopsy to be strangulation, with an acquaintance alleged to be the murderer[1][2].