JOHN
H. BRACEY, JR.
ACADEMIC
BIOGAPHY
Compiled by Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans
Spring 2004
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Distinguished
Professor John H. Bracey, Jr., has been a member of the W.E.B. Du
Bois
Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts
at
Amherst since 1972. He previously had taught Afro-American
history at
Northern Illinois University and at the University of Rochester.
He was
born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Washington, D.C. He has
attended Howard University, Roosevelt University in Chicago (B.A.,
1964), and
has done graduate work at Roosevelt and at Northwestern
University.
Mr.
Bracey has co-edited (with the late August Meier and Elliott Rudwick) a
number
of volumes on various aspects of the Afro-American experience,
including Black
Nationalism in AmericaExplorations in the Black Experience
(Wadsworth), and
a revised edition of Black Protest in the Sixties (Marcus
Weiner). Mr. Bracey is one of the co-editors of the prize
winning African
American Women and the Vote: 1837-1965 (1997) Mr. Bracey (with
Maurianne
Adams) has published an anthology entitled Strangers and Neighbors:
Relations between Blacks and Jews in the United States (1999) and
has
completed (with Manisha Sinha) African American Mosaic: A
Documentary
History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century (2004). He
has
co-edited, with August Meier and Sharon Harley, the microfilm series
Black
Studies Research Sources: Primary
Sources in African American History (University Publications of
America)
which includes the Papers of the NAACP, A. Philip Randolph, Mary McLeod
Bethune, the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and the
Papers of
Horace Mann Bond. Mr. Bracey also has consulted on several video
productions on the lives of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass and A.
Philip
Randolph. Mr. Bracey is a life member of the Organization of
American
Historians.
Mr. Bracey is currently at work on two monographs begun with the late August Meier tentatively entitled: “The NAACP: A Short History” and “A. Philip Randolph and the NAACP: A Study in Cooperation and Conflict.” Some of this research has been published with August Meier as “Allies or Adversaries?: The NAACP, A. Philip Randolph and the 1941 March on Washington” in The Georgia Historical Quarterly (Spring, 1991), and “The NAACP as a Reform Movement: 1909-1965,” Journal of Southern History (February, 1993).
Mr.
Bracey has delivered papers at scholarly gatherings, and has lectured
at
campuses across the nation on various aspects of the history of Black
Americans. His major interests are African-American social
history,
radical ideologies and movements, and the history of African-American
Women,
and more recently the interactions between Native Americans and African
Americans, and Afro-Latinos in the United States.
Biographical
and Publishing Information
Born: Chicago, grew up in
Washington,
D.C.
Education: Howard University,
Roosevelt
University in Chicago (BA, 1964), and did his graduate work at
Roosevelt and
Northwestern University
Teaching: Afro-American history
at Northern
Illinois University and the University of Rochester
Became member of W. E. B. Du Bois Department of African American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1972
Awards: For his role in helping to
establish
Afro-American studies programs nationwide, he was awarded the Zora
Neale
Hurston-Paul Robeson award for outstanding artistic and scholarly
achievement
Research interests: African-American
social history,
radical ideologies and movements, and the history of African-American
women,
and more recently the interactions between Native Americans and
African-Americans, and Afro-Latinos in the United States
Publications: Currently in the
process of
completing, with Ernest Allen, a six-volume documentary history: Unite
or
Perish: Black Nationalist and Radical Thought 1954-1974
Co-editor, with Meier and Sharon
Harley, of
the microfilm series Black Studies Research Sources, which
includes the
papers of the NAACP, A. Philip Randolph, Mary McLeod Bethune and the
National
Association of Colored Women’s Clubs
Co-edited Access to
African-American Studies, a web research
service with Sharon Harley
UMass Branch Advisor, Association for the
Study of African American
Life and History
Consulted on the Organization of
American
Historians for video productions on W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass,
and A.
Philip Randolph
Dissertation chair of
Dr. Evans’
Living Legacies:
African American Women, Educational Philosophies, and Community
Service,
1865-1965.
Begun by John Bracey
and the late
August Meier, in progress
By John H. Bracey, August Meier, Randolph Boehm, Blair Hydrick,
National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1998, 1997,
1992
Strangers &
Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks & Jews in the United States
By Maurianne Adams, John H. Bracey, Julian Bond, 1999
African
American Women & the Vote, 1837-1965
By Ann D. Gordon, Bettye Collier-Thomas, John H. Bracey, Arlene Voski
Avakian,
Joyce Avrech Berkman, 1997
The Black Power Movement
By Muhammad Ahmad, Ernie Allen, John H. Bracey, Randolph Boehm,
2002
The Afro-Americans:
Selected
Documents
with August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, eds., 1972
The Black Sociologists:
The First
Half Century
with August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, eds., 1971
Black
Nationalism
in America
with August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, eds., 1970
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