Robin D. G. Kelley

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1. Robin D. G. Kelley

   Author of Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, Freedom Dreams, Yo' mama's disfunktional!

2. Paul Gilroy

   Author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

3. George Lipsitz

   Author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s

4. David Montgomery

   Author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century

5. John Hope Franklin

   Author of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (2 Vols. in 1), Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation, The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (The Paul Anthony Brick Lectures)

6. C. Vann Woodward

   Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913

7. Steven Hahn

   Author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

8. Peter Linebaugh

   Author of The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

9. Houston A. Baker

   Author of Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory, Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (Black Literature and Culture Series)

10. David R. Roediger

    Author of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

11. Frantz Fanon

    Author of Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism

12. Leon F. Litwack

    Author of Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century

13. Amiri Baraka

    Author of Blues People: Negro Music in White America, Black Music

14. Wina March?

    Author of African American Achievers in Science, Medicine, and Technology: A Resource Book for Young Learners, Parents, Teachers,

15. Ashley Kahn

    Author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

16. Manning Marable

    Author of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

17. August Meier

    Author of Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century

18. Paula J. Giddings

    Author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, Ida: A Sword Among Lions

19. Brian Urquhart

    Author of Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey

20. Juliet E. K. Walker

    Author of History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship