Kevin K. Gaines
Kevin K. Gaines is the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice, with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Brown University in the Department of American Civilization. He is author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture During the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association. His book, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (UNC Press, 2006) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He is a past president of the American Studies Association (2009-10).
His essays, columns and reviews on African American history, art, music, literature, and culture have been published in major newspapers, journals, and magazines, including the New York Times, American Quarterly, American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, American Literary History, Small Axe, and Radical History Review. He has lectured at universities throughout the U.S. as well as internationally, in Japan, Korea, England, France, Ghana, South Africa, and Australia.
His essays, columns and reviews on African American history, art, music, literature, and culture have been published in major newspapers, journals, and magazines, including the New York Times, American Quarterly, American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, American Literary History, Small Axe, and Radical History Review. He has lectured at universities throughout the U.S. as well as internationally, in Japan, Korea, England, France, Ghana, South Africa, and Australia.
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the emergence of new African and Asian nations from European colonial rule. global racial justice protests reflect the legacies and continuing harms of US racism and colonialism. The Black Lives Matter protests that surged across the US highlighted the unfinished business of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s; not only the systemic racism of the failure to hold police officers accountable for extrajudicial killings, but also the scourge of poverty and economic inequality.
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the emergence of new African and Asian nations from European colonial rule. global racial justice protests reflect the legacies and continuing harms of US racism and colonialism. The Black Lives Matter protests that surged across the US highlighted the unfinished business of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s; not only the systemic racism of the failure to hold police officers accountable for extrajudicial killings, but also the scourge of poverty and economic inequality.