Matthew Frye Jacobson is a professor of American studies,
history, and African American studies at Yale University. He is the author of Roots
Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2006), winner of
the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award; What Have They Built You to Do?
The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (2006), with Gaspar
Gonzalez; Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at
Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000); Whiteness of a Different Color:
European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998), winner of the John
Hope Franklin and the Ralph Bunche Prizes; and Special Sorrows: The
Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants of the United
States (1995). He is currently at work on a study of anti-racism in U.S.
culture in the post-war years, “Odetta’s Voice and Other Weapons: The Civil
Rights Era as Cultural History” and a multi-media documentary on hope and
despair in Obama’s America, which can be viewed at http://www.historianseye.org.
Lectures:
- Race, Immigration, and U.S. Citizenship
- The History of “Whiteness” in U.S. Political Culture
- The Civil Rights Era as Cultural History
- Annexing the “Other”: Immigration and Imperialism, 1876-1917
- White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
- The Historian’s Eye Documentary Project
source: http://lectures.oah.org/lecturers/lecturer.html?id=16
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