Dwight A. McBride | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Academic background | |
Education | Princeton University (AB) University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Notable works | Why I Hate Abercrombie &Fitch:Essays on Race and Sexuality Impossible Witnesses:Truth,Abolitionism and Slave Testimony Black Like Us:A Century of Lesbian,Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction(co-ed.) |
9th President of The New School | |
In office April 16,2020 –August 15,2023 | |
Preceded by | David E. Van Zandt |
Succeeded by | Donna Shalala (interim) |
Dwight A. McBride (born 1967) is an American academic administrator and scholar of race and literary studies. From April 16,2020,to August 2023,he served as the ninth president of The New School. [1] [2] McBride previously served as provost,executive vice president for academic affairs,and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American studies at Emory University.
Dwight A. McBride was born in Honea Path,South Carolina and raised in Belton,South Carolina. [3] He graduated from Belton-Honea Path High School in 1986. [4]
McBride graduated from Princeton University,where he studied English and African American studies. He then earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of California,Los Angeles. [5]
McBride taught at the University of Pittsburgh,then served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2007 to 2010. [5] He next served as Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies,English,&Performance Studies at Northwestern University, [6] as well as Dean of the Graduate School [7] [8] and Associate Provost of Graduate Education. [6] On July 1,2017,he became Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English at Emory University. [9] He joined The New School as president on April 16,2020,and announced his departure in 2023. [10]
McBride is an author of numerous books and edited collections. His works include James Baldwin Now (NYU Press,1999), [11] [12] Impossible Witnesses:Truth,Abolitionism,and Slave Testimony (NYU Press,2002), [13] [14] the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award-nominated essay collection Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch:Essay on Race and Sexuality (NYU Press,2005), [15] [16] and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Black Like Us:A Century of Gay,Lesbian,and Bi-Sexual African American Fiction (Cleis Press,2011). [17] [18]
McBride has also co-edited several collections and posthumous volumes,including a special issue of the journal Callaloo entitled "Plum Nelly:New Essays in Queer Black Studies" (2000), [19] A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (Mississippi Press,2006), [20] [21] Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (Univ. of Illinois Press,2013), [22] [23] and the Lambda Literary Award-winning book The Delectable Negro:Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture (NYU Press,2014). [24] [25]
McBride is one of the founding editors and current co-editor of the open access scholarly journal,James Baldwin Review (Manchester Univ. Press), [26] [27] and co-editor of The New Black Studies book series at the University of Illinois Press. [28] [29]
Uncle Tom's Cabin;or,Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852,the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S.,and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays,novels,plays,and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels. His 1955 essay collection Notes of a Native Son helped establish his reputation as a voice for human equality. Baldwin was an influential public figure and orator,especially during the civil rights movement in the United States.
The legal institution of human chattel slavery,comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans,was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865,predominantly in the South. Slavery was established throughout European colonization in the Americas. From 1526,during the early colonial period,it was practiced in what became Britain's colonies,including the Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. Under the law,an enslaved person was treated as property that could be bought,sold,or given away. Slavery lasted in about half of U.S. states until abolition in 1865,and issues concerning slavery seeped into every aspect of national politics,economics,and social custom. In the decades after the end of Reconstruction in 1877,many of slavery's economic and social functions were continued through segregation,sharecropping,and convict leasing.
Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery in the United States is one of the most discussed aspects of his life. Lincoln frequently expressed his moral opposition to slavery in public and private. "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong,nothing is wrong," he stated. "I can not remember when I did not so think,and feel." However,the question of what to do about it and how to end it,given that it was so firmly embedded in the nation's constitutional framework and in the economy of much of the country,even though concentrated in only the Southern United States,was complex and politically challenging. In addition,there was the unanswered question,which Lincoln had to deal with,of what would become of the four million slaves if liberated:how they would earn a living in a society that had almost always rejected them or looked down on their very presence.
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans. His work was published sixteen years after Phillis Wheatley's work. She was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American to publish a book of poetry,which was published in 1773. Her collection,was titled Poems on Various Subjects,Religious and Moral.
E. Patrick Johnson is the dean of the Northwestern University School of Communication. He is the Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and professor of African-American studies at Northwestern University. Johnson is the founding director of the Black Arts Consortium at Northwestern. His scholarly and artistic contributions focus on performance studies,African-American studies and women,gender and sexuality studies.
The New York Manumission Society was founded in 1785. The term "manumission" is from the Latin meaning "a hand lets go," inferring the idea of freeing a slave. John Jay,first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States as well as statesman Alexander Hamilton and the lexicographer Noah Webster,along with many slave holders among its founders. Its mandate was to promote gradual emancipation and to advocate for those already emancipated. New York ended slavery in 1827. The Society was disbanded in 1849,after its mandate was perceived to have been fulfilled. the society battled against the slave trade,and for the eventual emancipation of all the slaves in the state. In 1787,they founded the African Free School to teach children of slaves and free people of color,preparing them for life as free citizens. The school produced leaders from within New York's Black community.
Houston Alfred Baker Jr. is an American scholar specializing in African-American literature and Distinguished University Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Baker served as president of the Modern Language Association,editor of the journal American Literature,and has authored several books,including The Journey Back:Issues in Black Literature and Criticism,Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987),Blues,Ideology,and Afro-American Literature (1984),and Workings of the Spirit:The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing (1993),as well as editing literary collections. Baker was included in the 2006 textbook Fifty Key Literary Theorists,by Richard J. Lane.
The pre-American Civil War practice of kidnapping into slavery in the United States occurred in both free and slave states,and both fugitive slaves and free negroes were transported to slave markets and sold,often multiple times. There were also rewards for the return of fugitives. Three types of kidnapping methods were employed:physical abduction,inveiglement of free blacks,and apprehension of fugitives. The enslavement,or re-enslavement,of free blacks occurred for 85 years,from 1780 to 1865.
Ralph Edlin Luker was an American historian,teacher,and the author of several books about race,religion and the Civil Rights Movement.
Why I Hate Abercrombie &Fitch:Essays on Race and Sexuality is a book by Dwight A. McBride on ethno-relational mores in contemporary gay African America with a nod to black,feminist and queer cultural contexts "dedicated to integrating sexuality and race into black and queer studies."
Robert Reid-Pharr is an American literary and cultural critic and professor.
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews is a three-volume work of pseudo-scholarship,published by the Nation of Islam. The first volume,which was released in 1991,asserts that Jews dominated the Atlantic slave trade. The Secret Relationship has been widely criticized for being antisemitic and for failing to provide an objective analysis of the role of Jews in the slave trade. The American Historical Association issued a statement condemning claims that Jews played a disproportionate role in the Atlantic slave trade,and other historians such as Wim Klooster and Seymour Drescher concluded that the role of Jews in the overall Atlantic slave trade was in fact minimal.
Roderick Ferguson is Professor of Women's,Gender,and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. He was previously professor of African American and Gender and Women's Studies in the African American Studies Department at the University of Illinois,Chicago. His scholarship includes work on African-American literature,queer theory and queer studies,classical and contemporary social theory,African-American intellectual history,sociology of race and ethnic relations,and black cultural theory. Among his contributions to queer theory,Ferguson is credited with coining the term Queer of Color Critique,which he defines as "...interrogat[ion] of social formations as the intersections of race,gender,sexuality,and class,with particular interest in how those formations correspond with and diverge from nationalist ideals and practices. Queer of color analysis is a heterogeneous enterprise made up of women of color feminism,materialist analysis,poststructuralist theory,and queer critique." Ferguson is also known for his critique of the modern university and the corporatization of higher education.
In the United States,abolitionism,the movement that sought to end slavery in the country,was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War,the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery,except as punishment for a crime,through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Moya Bailey is an African-American feminist scholar,writer,and activist. She is noted for coining the term misogynoir,which denotes what Bailey describes as the unique combination of misogyny and anti-black racism experienced by black women. Bailey is an associate professor at Northwestern University.
Carole Boyce Davies is a Caribbean-American professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University,the author of the prize-winning Left of Karl Marx:The Political Life of Claudia Jones (2008) and Black Women,Writing and Identity:Migrations of the Subject (1994),as well as editor of several critical anthologies in African and Caribbean literature. She is currently the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters,an endowed chair named after the 9th president of Cornell University. Among several other awards,she was the recipient of two major awards,both in 2017:the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and the Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association.
Leslie Maria Harris is an American historian and scholar of African American Studies. She is a professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Harris studies the history of African Americans in the United States. She has published work on the history of slavery in New York City,on slavery,gender and sexuality in the Antebellum South,and on the historiography of slavery in the United States.
The Delectable Negro:Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture is a 2014 book by Vincent Woodard. The book explores the homoeroticism of both literal and figurative acts of human cannibalism that occurred during slavery in the United States.
Joy James is an American political philosopher,academic,and author. James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. Her books include Transcending the Talented Tenth:Black Leaders and American Intellectuals,Shadowboxing,Imprisoned Intellectuals,The New Abolitionists,Resisting State Violence,In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love:Precarity,Power,Communities and The Angela Y. Davis Reader. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where she developed the Harriet Tubman Digital Repository.
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