He is also an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town. His research interests include studies of race, racism and popular culture; critical multiculturalism, anti-racism and cosmopolitanisms. He is the author of Elusive Culture (SUNY 2000), an ethnography of youth, schooling and identity in 'global' times. His two films, One Hundred Men and Sathima's Windsong come out of larger on-going project on the making of the South Atlantic World.