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Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History; Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies
Yale University, American Studies, Ph.D.
Harvard College, Social Studies, A.B. Magna Cum Laude
Research Interests: Race, empire, and culture in 20th-century U.S.; black radicalism and US liberalism; U.S. foreign policy.
Selected Works:
Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).
“The Afterlife of Fascism,” South Atlantic Quarterly, Winter 2006, pp. 71-93. Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for
Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2004). Winner 2005 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award sponsored by the
Organization of American Historians; Winner 2005 Norris and Carol Hundley
Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association; Winner 2005
Washington State Book Award.
The
Afro-Asian Century, a special issue of positions:
east asia cultures critique, co-edited with
Andrew Jones (Durham: Duke University Press), Winter 2003.
“Toward an
Effective Anti-Racism,” in Manning Marable, ed., Beyond the Ebony Tower, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp.
10-33.
“Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy,” American
Quarterly, September 1998, pp. 471-522.
“The Black Panthers and the 'Underdeveloped Country' of the
Left," in Charles E. Jones, ed., The Black Panther Party Reconsidered:
Reflections and Scholarship (Baltimore:
Black Classic Press, 1998), pp. 57-105.
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