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Daniel Widener |
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Department of History |
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Email: dwidener@ucsd.edu |
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VitaDanny Widener teaches African American history, cultural studies, and twentieth-century political radicalism. He began his educational career at the Echo Park-Silverlake Peoples’ Childcare Center. He studied at Berkeley and New York University. He has written on the politics of black culture in postwar Los Angeles, black-Latino and Afro-Asian issues, and the Korean War. Academic Employment Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCSD 2003-present Education Ph. D. January 2003 New York University B. A. May 1995 University of California, Berkeley B. A. May 1995 University of California, Berkeley Professional Affiliations American Historical Association, member |
PublicationsBooks Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in black Los Angeles, 1942-1992 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009) [in production] Disseration “Something Else: Creative Community and Black Liberation in Postwar Los Angeles.” Dissertation completed under the direction of Robin D.G. Kelley (New York University, 2003) Articles and Review Essays “A History of Black and Brown: Chicano/a—African American Cultural and Political Relations,” co-authored with Luis Alvarez, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, “Dossier: Chicana/o—African American Cultural and Political Relations,” co-edited with Luis Alvarez, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, volume 33, no. 1 “The Rendezvous of Remembrance and Revolt,” Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 10, No. 2 (June 2007), 199-205. “Another City is Possible: Interethnic Organizing in Los Angeles,” Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts volume 1, no.2, (spring 2008), 188-219 “Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black Dissent and the Forgotten War,” in Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen (eds.), Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Connections (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), 55-87 “African American Responses to the Cold War,” in Robbie Lieberman (ed.), History in Dispute: Volume 19, The Red Scare after 1945, 8-15, New York: St. James Press, “Way Out West: The Black Arts Movement in Southern California,” Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures, volume 9, no.2 (1999) “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise: African-Americans and the Latino World,” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order. Special issue on rethinking race, volume 25, no. 3 (1998) Research Interests African American Cultural History Work in Progress Professor Widener is currently at work preparing an anthology on the intersection of African American and Chicano history. He is also completing a book on African American responses to the Korean War. |
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Courses Taught HILD 7A. Race and Ethnicity in the United States.
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