African American Political Culture Workshop
February 13, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., 2120 Francis Scott Key Hall
(Light refreshments available at 6:15)
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
"Radical Visions: The Depression Years"
Commentator: Daryl Scott, Howard University
Discussion will be based upon a pre-circulated paper. If you plan to attend the talk and would like a copy of the paper, please email Elsa Barkley Brown ([email protected]).
Patricia Sullivan is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her publications include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era; Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years; Civil Rights in the United States, a two-volume encyclopedia coedited with Waldo E. Martin, Jr.; and New Directions in Civil Rights Studies, coedited with Armstead L. Robinson. Since 1997, Patricia Sullivan and Waldo Martin have directed a series of NEH Summer Institutes for teachers at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. They also serve as coeditors of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Sullivan is currently completing a history of the NAACP entitled American Dream: The NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights; it will be published by the New Press in 2009. Professor Sullivan's paper for the workshop is a chapter from her history of the NAACP project.
Daryl Scott is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Howard University. He specializes in modern United States history. His book, Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996, won the 1998 James A. Rawley Prize for the best work in race relations He is also the author of numerous journal articles including “Postwar Pluralism: Brown v. Board of Education and the Origins of Multiculturalism,” Journal of American History (2004). Dr. Scott’s current book projects are After Cotton: African Americans in Blackbelt Georgia, 1945–1970 and The Lost World of White Nationalism: White Self-Rule in the American South, 1865–1970. Professor Scott is a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
The African American Political Culture Workshop is funded by the Center for Historical Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies at the University of Maryland.
Workshop Organizers: Elsa Barkley Brown, Dennis Doster, Jessica Johnson, and Mary-Elizabeth Murphy
February 13, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., 2120 Francis Scott Key Hall
(Light refreshments available at 6:15)
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
"Radical Visions: The Depression Years"
Commentator: Daryl Scott, Howard University
Discussion will be based upon a pre-circulated paper. If you plan to attend the talk and would like a copy of the paper, please email Elsa Barkley Brown ([email protected]).
Patricia Sullivan is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her publications include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era; Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years; Civil Rights in the United States, a two-volume encyclopedia coedited with Waldo E. Martin, Jr.; and New Directions in Civil Rights Studies, coedited with Armstead L. Robinson. Since 1997, Patricia Sullivan and Waldo Martin have directed a series of NEH Summer Institutes for teachers at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. They also serve as coeditors of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Sullivan is currently completing a history of the NAACP entitled American Dream: The NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights; it will be published by the New Press in 2009. Professor Sullivan's paper for the workshop is a chapter from her history of the NAACP project.
Daryl Scott is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Howard University. He specializes in modern United States history. His book, Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996, won the 1998 James A. Rawley Prize for the best work in race relations He is also the author of numerous journal articles including “Postwar Pluralism: Brown v. Board of Education and the Origins of Multiculturalism,” Journal of American History (2004). Dr. Scott’s current book projects are After Cotton: African Americans in Blackbelt Georgia, 1945–1970 and The Lost World of White Nationalism: White Self-Rule in the American South, 1865–1970. Professor Scott is a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
The African American Political Culture Workshop is funded by the Center for Historical Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies at the University of Maryland.
Workshop Organizers: Elsa Barkley Brown, Dennis Doster, Jessica Johnson, and Mary-Elizabeth Murphy
