THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Associate Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity and History, and the College
Yale University, PhD '98
Recent Research / Recent Publications
Publications
Selling the Race: Culture and Community in Black Chicago, 1940–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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C-Span2 BookTV Discussion [video, 22 minutes]
Coeditor Charles Payne. Time Longer than Rope: Studies in African American Activism, 1850–1950. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
News
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Begins research for the Official Oral History of the Obamas
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Writes op-ed on the 1919 Chicago race riots for The New York Times
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Quoted in Hyde Park Herald article on the shooting of Tamir Rice
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Quoted in The Chicago Tribune article on 1919 Chicago race riots
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Participates in Q&A with the University of Chicago Magazine