Professor La Tasha A. Brown (Fall 2011)
Ph.D. (Winter 2011, Expected) – University of Warwick, Comparative Cultural Studies
Select Publications:
“Yaad Hip-Hop.” Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008. History Reference Online. ABC-CLIO. 23 Sep. 2008, 995.
“The Universal Being the Local Without Walls: Yaad/Yard-Hip Hop Identity ~ Reggae and Hip-Hop Music in the African Diasporic.” Centre for Translation & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Warwick Working Paper Series: Crossing the Disciplines: Explorations at the Interface. 2008.
Works in Progress:
Brown, La Tasha A., ed. MEMORY/POSTMEMORY, MUSIC & IDENTITY: The Construction of a Diasporic Black Caribbean Experience.
“Hyphenated Identities: The Construction of the Bi-Culturality of Children of Jamaican Parentage in Britain and the US, 1960s-1990s.”
“The Socio-Psychological Effects of Memory and Rememory: In the Construction of the Transnational Jamaican Black Identity.”
Research Interests:
· African American History and Culture
· Black British Identity and Culture
· Intersection of Class, Race, and Gender
· Caribbean Black Diaspora Identity
· Popular Culture
· Cultural Studies
· Black Women’s Literature
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Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll, Assistant Professor (Fall 2006)
Ph.D. (2007) Temple University – African American Studies
Select Publications:
“A Genealogical Review of the Worldview Concept and Framework in Africana Studies-Related Theory and Research.” In J. L. Conyers, Jr. (Ed), African American Consciousness: Past and Present (Africana Studies, Volume 4): 23-46. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publisher, 2012.
“African-centered Psychology, Education and the Liberation of African Minds: Notes on the Psycho-Cultural Justification for Reparations” Race, Gender & Class 18.1-2 (2011): 52-72. (co-authored with DeReef F. Jamison)
“About Us and Not About Us: Theorizing Student Resistance to Learning about Race and Racism from Underrepresented Faculty” Journal of the International Society of Teacher Education 14.2 (2010): 70-74. (co-authored with Eve Tuck and Michael Smith)
“A Genealogical Review of the Worldview Framework in African-Centered Psychology,” Journal of Pan African Studies 3.8 (2010): 109-134.
“Africana Studies and Research Methodology: Revisiting the Centrality of the Afrikan Worldview in Africana Studies Research and Scholarship,” Journal of Pan African Studies, 2.2 (2008): 4-27.
Book Review of Not Only the Master’s Tools: African American Studies in Theory and Practice, edited by Lewis Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. Journal of Pan African Studies, 1.4 (2006): 64-69.
Forthcoming Publications:
“An Introduction to African-centered Sociology: Worldview, Methodology and Social Theory.” Under review for Critical Sociology, Special Issue on African-centered Sociology (Ed., Nikitah Imani).
“Teaching and Pedagogy in Africana Studies: Implications of an African Worldview” for The Global Context of Pedagogy and Research in African and African American Studies (Ed., Victor Okafor).
“On the Impossibilities of a Post-Racist America in the Obama Era” for Race and Postracialism in the Age of Obama: A More Perfect Union? (Eds. G. Reginald Daniel & Hettie Williams).
“Cheikh Anta Diop’s ‘Two Cradle Theory’, Racism and the Cultural Realities of African Descended People in America” for Emerging Voices of Africana: Disciplinary Resonances (Ed. Michael Tillotson).
Works in Progress:
“African-centered Ways of Knowing and Being in the World: Worldview, Epistemology and Constructions of Knowledge”
“Contributions in African-centered Knowledge Production: Africana Women Activist Scholars and African-centered Thought”
“A Short History of Black Studies at the State University of New York – New Paltz.”
Research Interests:
- Africana/Black Studies Academic & Disciplinary Structure
- Intellectual History of Africana/Black Studies
- Theory Building in Africana/Black Studies
- Africana Intellectual Thought
- African/Black Psychology
- African-Centered Social Theory
- African-Centered Theory & Methodology
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Dr. Major Coleman, Associate Professor and Chairperson (Fall 2008)
JD (1981) – University of Maryland at Baltimore
PhD (1993) – University of Chicago
Select Publications:
"Anti-Discrimination Versus Anti-poverty: Does Affirmative Action Hurt the Poor?," Poverty and Public Policy, 1.2 (2009), Article 4.
"Are Claims of Discrimination Valid? Considering the Moral Hazard Effect," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 67.2 (2008): 1-19. (w/William A. Darity, Jr., and Rhonda V. Sharpe).
"You Can't Fix Racial Inequality if You Can't See It: Why Data Collection Is Vital to Successful Anti-discrimination Initiatives." In Advancing Equity in Latin America: Putting Policy Into Practice, 31-48. C. Nelson and S. Richards-Kennedy (Eds.). Washington D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, 2007.
Review of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985 by Adam R. Nelson. Journal of Politics 68.1 (2006): 221-222.
"The Black Political Economy Paradigm and the Dynamics of Racial Economic Inequality" w/James B. Stewart). In African Americans in the U.S. Economy, 118-129. J. Whitehead, C. Conrad, P. Mason and J. B. Stewart, (Eds.). Lanhan, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
"Racism in Academia: The White Superiority Supposition in the 'Unbiased' Search for Knowledge." European Journal of Political Economy. 21.3 (2005): 762-774.
"Racial Discrimination in the Workplace: Does Market Structure Make a Difference?" Industrial Relations. 43(3) (2004): 660-689.
"Job Skill and Black Male Wage Discrimination." Social Science Quarterly. 84.4 (2003): 892-906.
"African American Popular Wisdom Versus the Qualification Question : Is Affirmative Action Merit-based." Western Journal of Black Studies. 27.1 (2003): 35-44. (This was a special affirmative action issue featuring some of the best scholars from different fields including Haynes Walton, Lani Guinier, Glenn Loury, Thomas Boston and others)
"Contesting the Magic of the Marketplace: Black Employment and Business Concentration in the Urban Context." Urban Studies. 39.10 (2002): 1793-1818.
“Merit, Cost and the Affirmative Action Policy Debate,” The Review of Black Political Economy. 21.1 (1999): 99-127.
Forthcoming Publications:
Cost of Racial Equality, under contract (2013) University of Virginia Press.
Works in Progress:
"Black Hiring and Racial Tension in the Work Place" (in draft)
"The Law or the Market: The Effect of Competition on Racial Discrimination Claims, Wages, Racial Hiring, and Workplace Demographics” (in draft)
"Market Structure Versus Government Policy: Which Boosts Minority Employment the Most?" (in draft)
"Black Employment and Industry concentration, 1990-2002" (running statistical models)
Research Interests:
- American Politics
- Public Law
- Political Economy
- Religion and Politics
- Black Politics
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Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis
Associate Professor & Chairperson of Black Studies
Ph.D. (1988) New York University – Linguistics
Select Publications:
Bibliographic Essays: “Beryl Loftman Bailey,” “Raleigh Morgan,” “Arthur K. Spears,” African American National Biography. Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008: (Vol. 1) 214-216, (Vol. 6): 22-23, and (Vol. 7): 346-348, respectively.
Lorenzo Dow Turner: Father of Gullah Studies. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007 (Winner of the College Language Association 2008 Creative Scholarship Award).
“Lorenzo Dow Turner,” Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Michael Montgomery and Ellen Johnson, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007: 205-207.
“Lorenzo Dow Turner: Linguist, Literary and Pan-African Scholar,” for web site: lorenzodowturner.com, 2005.
“Mark Hanna Watkins: African American Linguistic Anthropologist,” Histories of Anthropology Annual. Volume I. Regna Darnell and Frederick W. Gleach, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005: 181-218.
“Mark Hanna Watkins: A Bridge over Many Waters,” Dialectical Anthropology, 28. 2004: 147-202.
“Lorenzo Dow Turner: Beyond Gullah Studies,” Dialectical Anthropology, 26. 2001: 235-266.
Bibliographic Essays: “Beryl Bailey," “Lorenzo Dow Turner," and “Mark Hanna Watkins," lexicon Grammaticorum: Who's Who in the History of World Linguistics. Harro Stammerjohann, ed. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996: 63, 938, 998, respectively.
“Beryl Loftman Bailey: Africanist Woman Linguist in New York State," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 17. 1 (Spring, 1993): 7-15.
Bibliographic Essays: “Beryl Bailey," “Fannie Lou Hamer," and “Toni Morrison,” African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Dorothy C. Salem, ed. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1993: 21-23, 220-224, and 364-367.
“The Status of Semantic Items from African Roots in English," The Black Scholar, 23. 2 (Winter/Spring, 1993): 26-36.
“The Way It Is: African Words and Creative Expressions in English," Marian E. Barnes, ed. Talk That Talk Some More: On the Cutting Room Floor. Austin: Eakin Press, 1993: 188-198.
“Lorenzo Dow Turner and Melville Herskovits: An Historiographical Note on the Substrate Hypothesis," The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 7: 1, (1992): 115-118.
“The Impact of the Turner/Herskovits Connection on Anthropology and Linguistics," Dialectical Anthropology, 17 (November, 1992): 391-412.
“Lorenzo Dow Turner: Pioneer African American Linguist," The Black Scholar, 21: 4 (Fall, 1991): 10-24.
“The Contribution of Lorenzo Dow Turner to African Linguistics," Studies in Linguistic Sciences, 20: 1 (Spring, 1990): 189-204.
Lorenzo Turner: First African American Linguist. Occasional Paper #2. Philadelphia: Temple University Institute of African and African American Affairs (Spring, 1988).
Forthcoming Publications:
Bibliographic Essays: “Beryl Bailey," “Lorenzo Dow Turner," and “Mark Hanna Watkins," lexicon Grammaticorum: Who's Who in the History of World Linguistics. Second
edition. Harro Stammerjohann, ed. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag (Forthcoming, 2009).
Research Interests:
- Linguistic History, Particularly the Contributions of Black Linguistics
- Biographer of Lorenzo Dow Turner
- Black English and Creole Studies
- Gullah Studies
- Black Women’s Literature
- Black Science Fiction, Particularly the Work of Octavia Butler
- Black Women’s Studies
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Dr. A.J. Williams-Myers, Professor (Fall 1978)
Ph.D. (1978) University of California at Los Angeles – History (concentration in Africa)
Select Publications:
In Their Own Words Voices From The Middle Passage. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2009.
“Contested Ground: Hinterland Slavery in Colonial America” in Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33.1 (January 2009): 139-.
On the Morning Tide: African American, History & Methodology in the Historical Ebb & Flow of Hudson River Society. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003.
Destructive Impulses: An Examination of an American Secret in Race Relations – White Violence. Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.
Long Hammering: Essays on the Forging of an African American Presence in the Hudson River Valley to the Early Twentieth Century. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1994.
“Out of the Shadows: African Descendants – Revolutionary Combatants in the Hudson River Valley; A Preliminary Sketch,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31.1 (January, 2007): 91-110.
“Some Notes on the Extent of New York City's Involvement in the Underground Railroad,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 29.2 (July, 2005): 73-82.
Book Review of Mighty Change, Tall Within; Black Identity in the Hudson Valley. Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, (January, 2004): 99-100.
“The Underground Railroad in the Hudson River Valley: A Succinct Historical Composite,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 27.1 (January, 2003): 55-73.
“Slavery, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Americas: A Historical Scenario on the Theses of Genovese and Others,” Journal of Black Studies, 3.4 (1996): 381-400.
Research Interests:
- Africa and the African Diaspora
- Deciphering patterns of American Racism
- Racism and the white psyche
- Black men/white men dynamics
- Black men/white women: a hidden secret in racism
- Black incarceration fueled by white insecurity/psychic flaw
- The Impact of Africa on Europe
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