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John WalterProfessor, American Ethnic
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B503 Padelford Hall |
Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. Co-edited and co-authored with Johnnella E. Butler. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.
*The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
*Winner of a 1990 American Book Award
Professor Walter is the author of 26 articles and more than 100 reviews in such journals as The Journal of American History, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, The Western Historical Quarterly, The Journal of African Americans in New York Life and History, Revista Inter-Americana, American Studies Today (U.K.), and the Seattle Times. He has been the recipient of a number of Mellon Research Grants for research on the African American woman, a Taft Research Fellowship for his work on "White Patronage of Black Artists in the Harlem Renaissance Era," among other awards. He received a Ford Foundation Grant for the oral history project "African American Athletes and the Color Line."
Walter has lectured abroad at the John F. Kennedy American Studies Institute for the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and most recently (1999) at Liverpool John Moores University, England, and at the United States Embassy, London, U.K.
In 1996, Professor Walter wrote the lead essay on African Americans & Sports for the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History and is writing a similar essay for the projected (2000) Encyclopedia of Americans of American Studies.
African American history from the colonial period to the present. Special competence in 1) African Americans and US laws; 2) Civil Rights; 3) the South; 4) Sports, 1880-present; 5) Carribean immigrants.
African American Artists and White Patronage in the Harlem Renaissance Era
The Black Athlete: Breaking
the Color Line: 1930-1980
Available Scheduled Course Offerings
HSTAA/AFRAM
270: The Jazz Age (2004 Winter; 2004 Fall)
HSTAA/AFRAM
334: The Sixties in America (2003 Autumn; 2004 Summer; 2005 Winter)
HSTAA/AFRAM
150: Survey of African American History (2004 Winter; 2005 Winter
Non-Crosslisted Scheduled Courses
AFRAM 437: History of African
Americans and American Law (2004 Spring; 2005 Spring)
Available Unscheduled Courses
AFRAM 272 The South Since the Civil War
AFRAM 337 Music and Social
Change in the Sixties Era
Introduction of popular music and social change in the late 1950s to 1972.
How this interaction of popular music effected significant change during
this era. Consider political activism for civil rights and against the
Vietnam War as it intersects with the development of Rhythm and Blues,
Rock n' Roll, political folk music and post-bebop jazz.
AFRAM 335 Sports and Social
Change in the Twentieth Century
Development of Sports in the United States and its importance for United
States culture and society. Covers the increased centrality of athletic
competition as part of the new "leisure time" in the late 19th
century. Revival of the Olympic Movement, racial segregation and integration,
today's American notions of "celebrity" and social style.
Graduate Courses
HSTAA 550 African American
History to Reconstruction
This course is the first part of a two (2) quarter sequence graduate field
course in African American history. It is designed to prepare graduate
students for their qualifying examinations in African American history,
and for American history students desiring an in-depth survey of African
American history. A comprehensive in-depth introduction to the major topics
and writings in African American history from the colonial era to 1900,
including: the inception of slavery, free Blacks, slave revolts, black
abolition, Blacks in the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Black female
role in the struggle for freedom.
HSTAA 551 African American
History Since Reconstruction
This is the second part of a two-quarter sequence graduate field course
in African American history. It is designed to prepare graduate students
for their qualifying examinations in African American history, and for
American history students desiring an in-depth survey of African American
history. A comprehensive introduction to the major topics and writings
in African American history in the 20th century, including: the Jim Crow
era, the Black Women's Movement, Harlem Renaissance, the legal origins
of the Civil Rights Revolution, the Second Reconstruction, and the Politics
of cultural pluralism.
HSTAA 552/553 Graduate Seminar
in African American History
This is a two-quarter course designed to offer research experiences and
opportunities in African American history. It provides students with skills
and methodology to pursue advanced research in the field. The following
are the class objectives: 1) to provide the student with the skills and
methodology to pursue advanced research; 2) to encourage all students
to delve deeper into a specific area of interest in African American history;
3) to assist graduate students who have chosen African American history
as their primary field to identify topics that might evolve into dissertations,
seminar papers, or theses; 4) it is expected that student papers will
be of publishing caliber at the conclusion of the seminar.