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Robin D.G. Kelley

Expert in African American history, including black radical movements and the politics of jazz

Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences

Contact at: (213) 740-1679 or rdkelley@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • history of U.S. social movements
  • African American history
  • culture wars
  • African Diaspora
  • black intellectuals
  • music and visual culture
  • urban and poverty studies
  • colonialism and imperialism
  • organized labor
  • race constructions
Additional Information:
  • Author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990), Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (1994), Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997), Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002), Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (forthcoming) and Speaking in Tongues: Jazz and Modern Africa (forthcoming)
    and volume 10 of the Young Oxford History of African Americans (1995-1998)
  • Co-author (with Dana Frank and Howard Zinn) of Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (2001)
  • Co-editor (with Earl Lewis) of To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (2000) and co-editor (with Sidney J. Lemelle) of Imagining Home: Class, Culture, and Nationalism in the African Diaspora (1994)
  • Kelley is working on a general survey of African American history co-authored with Tera Hunter and Earl Lewis to be published by Norton

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For more information go to:

http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1012633.html