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| I received my doctorate in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. My major fields of concentration at Illinois were African American and Colonial American history, with minor concentrations in the national period of American History, and Latin American History. I first began teaching African American History at the university level as early as 1973 at Grinnell College (Iowa), but I have been doing so continuously since the late-1980s when I began teaching at Hampton University in Virginia and throughout the 1990s at Dartmouth College. |
Research Interest
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My primary research interests have focused on U.S. and
African American history, including the history of slavery in America, with
a special emphasis on the colonial and early national periods, and on
African American cultural and intellectual history both during slavery and
since emancipation. Cornell University Press published my book, The Punished
Self: Surviving Enslavement in the Colonial South in 2001. I am currently
completing a manuscript for publication by the University of Pennsylvania
Press tentatively entitled, Selving: The Aesthetic Dimension of Black Life
in Colonial America. |
Teaching Interest
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Although my teaching is partly driven by research
concerns, most of my courses are broadly conceived, examining social,
cultural, and political movements as well as the intellectual concerns of
people of African descent in America, beginning in Africa with the history
of the Atlantic slave trade and continuing into the present. Although rooted
in the discipline of history most of my courses are interdisciplinary in
approach and perspective. Each academic year I teach one or both parts of
the African American survey course, both parts of which examine the
experiences, struggles, and creativity of black people in the United States
from their African origins to the present. Lectures and readings explore how
an increasingly diverse and always complicated black community resisted
oppression, struggled for power, dealt with internal tensions, conflicts,
and differences, and profoundly shaped American culture. I also teach
undergraduate lecture courses such as “Recent African American History,
1945-Present”, “African American Intellectual History” with primary emphasis
on the Twentieth Century, and “African American Cultural History: The Harlem
Renaissance.” The last course listed uses the Harlem Renaissance as a focus
for examining African American Cultural History from the post-Reconstruction
era (late 19th century) to the onset of the Second World War
I am currently developing an online course "The Virtual
History of Slavery in America", that utilizes visual images of slaves and
slavery - images created during the period of slavery in America - to
illustrate that formative period in African American History. Also upcoming
in the Fall semester 2004, will be a new course on the Atlantic Slave Trade,
and another new course that has not yet been scheduled, Slave Culture:
African American Cultural History, 1619-1877. |
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