Fighting for Hope
April 15, 2014
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6100642-fighting-for-hope?from_search=true Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World…
Robert Jefferson
An Associate Professor in the Department of history, Robert F. Jefferson Jr. served as Director of the African American Studies Program until 2011. An expert in African Americans in United States history, Dr. Jefferson is interested broadly in the 19th and 20th centuries and national and international movements, including the experiences of disabled veterans, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and Pan Africanism. He is the author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and is currently at work on The Color of Disability: Vasco Hale and Twentieth Century America and American Negritude: Mercer Cook, the American Society of African Culture, and the Politics of Liberation. He has published articles in the Historian, the Journal of Family History, Quaderni Storici, the Oral History Review, and the Annals of Iowa. Dr. Jefferson's courses reflect the full range of his interests. They include lecture courses on African American Military history, African American Social Movements in the Twentieth Century, African American Diaspora History since 1200, and undergraduate and graduate seminars on a range of topics—Race and Reparations in United States History, Racial Identity in the United States since 1900, and Apartheid in the United States and South Africa. He is currently a member of the American Historical Association, the Social Science History Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lecturer Program since 2009. Starting July1 2014 he will be heading up the University of New Mexico History Department.
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