Freedom Rights
December 08, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12523644-freedom-rights Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement by Danielle L. McGuire (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Dittmer …
Krystal Frazier
Teaching Fields: African American History to 1900, African American History since 1900, Civil Rights History. Research Interests: her broad research interests are in the social and cultural history of African American communities and its economic and political implications. Her dissertation research argued that distinctive patterns of forming and maintaining kinship ties among black families shaped the ways in which African Americans organized themselves throughout the twentieth century. Scholars recognize that wide family systems were important to surviving slavery, but have paid little attention to the role of extra-nuclear family groups beyond the antebellum period. Her project identified African Americans’ extended and adoptive kin networks as important resources for combating racism, poverty, and familial dispersion from emancipation to the turn of the twenty-first century. In addition to research on African American kin networks, she also interested in recent shifts in the racial and national identity of traditional African Americans, whom she identify as the descendants of the Atlantic Slave Trade to the part of North America that became the United States. She want to investigate African American identity shifts in relation to accelerating populations of black African, Caribbean, and South American immigrants, increasing numbers of African American people who have children with non-black partners, and rising sentiments of patriotism in light of perceived national security threats. Her research will also historicize the increasingly popular identification of “multi-racial” among people who would have historically identified as “black” and the implications of such identifications in post-Obama America. Such an exploration will address the overarching meanings of race and racial construction and the probable expansion of traditional racial categories in the United States.
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