Lindon W. Barrett (October 10, 1961 – July 7, 2008) was a literary and cultural theorist, professor and director of African studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Moving forward with his education, Lindon began work at the University of Pennsylvania in order to achieve his Ph.D., which he was awarded in 1990.

Investigations found that his car was also missing and they were able to locate it on Paramount Boulevard at South Street and arrested Marlon Martinez as he attempted to enter the vehicle.

[3] Published as an incomplete manuscript the book approaches the "genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity.

[4][5] Barrett tackles multiple social justice issues speaking not only to theorists of race but also of gender and queer studies.