Robin Kelley
American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robin Davis Gibran Kelley is an American historian and academic, who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles . From 2006 to 2011, he was Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California , and from 2003 to 2006 he was the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia University. From 1994 to 2003, he was a professor of history and Africana Studies at New York University as well the chair of NYU's history department from 2002 to 2003. Kelley has also served as a Hess Scholar-in-Residence at Brooklyn College. In the summer of 2000, he was honored as a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, where he taught and mentored a class of sophomores, as well as wrote the majority of the book Freedom Dreams.
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- Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1998) (527)
- Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994) (412)
- Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002) (395)
- Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World (2000) (313)
- “We Are Not What We Seem”: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South (1993) (281)
- Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (1991) (215)
- “But a Local Phase of a World Problem”: Black History's Global Vision, 1883–1950 (1999) (175)
- Imagining home : class, culture, and nationalism in the African diaspora (1994) (118)
- A Poetics of Anticolonialism (1999) (84)
- The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture (2006) (69)
- Notes on Deconstructing "The Folk" (1992) (66)
- Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution (1999) (46)
- Nap Time: Historicizing the Afro (1997) (36)
- “Unfinished Migrations”: Commentary and Response (2000) (34)
- Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012) (31)
- How the West was One: On the uses and Limitations of Diaspora (2000) (31)
- Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009) (30)
- To make our world anew : a history of African Americans (2002) (28)
- In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 (2010) (26)
- Dig They Freedom: Meditations on History and the Black Avant-Garde (1997) (24)
- New Monastery: Monk and the Jazz Avant-Garde (1999) (24)
- Gambling@home : internet gambling in Canada (2001) (21)
- Mozambique: The Revolution and Its Origins (1984) (20)
- Discourse on colonialism . A poetics of anticolonialism (2000) (19)
- “He's Got the Whole World in His Hands”: US History and Its Discontents in the Obama Era (2011) (19)
- House Negroes on the Loose: Malcolm X and the Black Bourgeoisie (1998) (18)
- The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society Since 1800 (1984) (17)
- Triumph, tragedy or trade-off? : considering the impact of gambling (2001) (17)
- A new war in Dixie: Communists and the unemployed in Birmingham, Alabama, 1930–1933 (1989) (16)
- Race and Class Consciousness Revisited@@@Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932.@@@Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. (1991) (15)
- The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II (2020) (13)
- First nations gambling policy in Canada (2001) (11)
- Beyond Black Lives Matter (2015) (10)
- Why Haiti Needs New Narratives (2015) (9)
- Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader (2009) (8)
- From the River to the Sea to Every Mountain Top: Solidarity as Worldmaking (2019) (8)
- The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (2018) (8)
- “Solidarity Is Not a Market Exchange”: An RM Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, Part 1 (2018) (7)
- Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics (2020) (6)
- A Sole Response (2000) (5)
- Interview of Herbert Aptheker (2000) (5)
- The Proletariat Goes to College (1996) (5)
- We Changed the World: African Americans 1945-1970 (1997) (4)
- Into the fire--African Americans since 1970 (1996) (4)
- Building a Progressive Movement in 2012 (2012) (4)
- On Violence and Carcerality (2017) (4)
- The Third International and the Struggle for National Liberation in South Africa (1986) (4)
- The Religious Odyssey of African Radicals: Notes on the Communist Party of South Africa, 1921–34 (1991) (4)
- CHAPTER 9: The Black Poor and the Politics of Opposition in a New South City, 1929-1970 (1993) (4)
- Race and racism: a symposium (1995) (4)
- “Western Civilization is Neither”: Black Studies’ Epistemic Revolution (2020) (4)
- Generations of Struggle: Panel Discussion on Protest before, during, and after the Ferguson Rebellion (2016) (4)
- History and Hope: An Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley (2011) (3)
- Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century@@@Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870-2000 (2002) (3)
- Wiki Justice, Social Ergonomics, and Ethical Collaborations (2008) (3)
- Beyond the "Real" World, or Why Black Radicals Need to Wake Up and Start Dreaming (2002) (3)
- A Lifelong Radical: Clyde L. Johnson, 1908–1994 (1995) (2)
- Another Freedom Summer (2014) (2)
- The Jacksons (2008) (2)
- Beneath the Underground: Exploring New Currents in “Jazz” (2004) (2)
- Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Urban America (1993) (1)
- “Solidarity Is Not a Market Exchange”: An RM Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, Part 2 (2019) (1)
- Jazz@@@Jazz: A History of America's Music (2002) (1)
- The Oral History of the Left in the United States: A Survey and Interpretation (1989) (1)
- The Facts of Love (2013) (1)
- An Invisible Army: Jobs, Relief, and the Birth of a Movement (2015) (0)
- The Road to Legality: The Popular Front in Birmingham, 1935–1937 (2015) (0)
- The Role of the International Sports Boycott in the Liberation of South Africa (1984) (0)
- Announcements (2013) (0)
- Where Communism was Black@@@Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1992) (0)
- Our South African Freedom Dreams (2014) (0)
- Freedom Is Living (2006) (0)
- Resistance, Survival, and the Black Poor in Birmingham, Alabama, 1929-1970 (1991) (0)
- Radical Genesis: Birmingham, 1870–1930 (2015) (0)
- Tributes From Dr. Marable's Colleagues (2011) (0)
- Introduction (2000) (0)
- Fade to Black: The Invisible Army in War, Revolution, and Beyond (2015) (0)
- In the Heart of the Trouble: Race, Sex, and the ILD (2015) (0)
- Emphasizing the Cultural Side of the Freedom Struggle (1969) (0)
- Afterword (2017) (0)
- Media Reviews (2007) (0)
- debted to Beth Bailey and Ruth Salvaggio for their generous mentoring and friendship. I also benefited from teaching two graduate seminars on race at unm, and I thank participants in them for a series of enlightening (2017) (0)
- Negroes Ain’ Black—But Red!: Black Communists and the Culture of Opposition (2015) (0)
- Problems of Socialist Transofrmation in Africa: The Congolese Experience (1984) (0)
- Nihilists or Stylists?: Black Urban Culture and the Predicament of Social Science (1993) (0)
- Between Home and Street: (2020) (0)
- Organize or Starve!: Communists, Labor, and Antiradical Violence (2015) (0)
- A HISTORIAN IN THE WORLD (2009) (0)
- 5. How the West Was One: The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of U.S. History (2019) (0)
- The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun (2022) (0)
- Remapping the U.S. Left (1989) (0)
- Philosophy and Black Liberation: An Extended Review of Leonard Harris' Philosophy Born of Struggle (1985) (0)
- Contributors (2011) (0)
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