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Quintard Taylor Carol Thomas Lynn M. Thomas Phillip Thurtle John Toews
Professor; Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History
African American History, American West
Email: qtaylor@uw.edu
Phone: (206) 543-5698
Office: SMI 316A
Web: http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor
Office Hours: M 3:30-5:00; T 11:30-1:30
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,1977.
Dr. Sam, Soldier, Educator, Advocate, Friend: The Autobiography of Samuel Eugene Kelly (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).
America-I-Am Black Facts: The Story of a People Through Timelines, 1601-2000 (New York: Tavis Smiley Books, 2009).
From Timbuktu to Katrina: Readings in African American History, Vols. 1& 2 (Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008).
Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and Quintard Taylor, eds. African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003).
Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy and Quintard Taylor, eds. Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, 1769-1997 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001).
In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998).
The Forging of a Black Community: A History of Seattle's Central District, 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994).
"Ambiguous Legacy: Theodore Roosevelt and the Buffalo Soldiers," Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 31:1-2 (Winter-Spring 2010):37-42.
"Blacks and Asians in a White City: Japanese Americans and African Americans in Seattle, 1890-1940," Western Historical Quarterly 22:4 (November 1991). Reprinted in Hazel M. McFerson, Blacks and Asians: Crossings, Conflict and Community (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2006.
"Texas: The South Meets the West: The View Through African American History,"Journal of the West 44:2 (Spring 2005):44-52.
"Urban Black Labor in the West, 1849-1949: Reconceptionalizing the Image of a Region," in Joe W. Trotter, Earl Lewis and Tera W. Hunter, eds., The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
"'Justice is Slow But Sure,': The Civil Rights Movement in the West, 1950-1970,” Nevada Law Journal 5:1 (Fall 2004):84-92.
"Seeking Sunbelt Freedom: African Americans in the Urban Southwest, 1865-1970," OAH Magazine of History 18:1 (October 2003).
"In Search of African American History in the Trans-Mississippi West," in Patricia Limerick, William Travis, and Julia Hobson, Eds. The Handbook for the New West (W.W. Norton, 2002).
"Susie Revels Cayton, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, and the Campaign for Social Justice in the Pacific Northwest," in William Robbins, ed., The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2001).
"From Esteban to Rodney King: Five Centuries of African American History in the West," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 46:4 (Winter 1996). Reprinted in Walter Nugent and Martin Ridge, eds., The American West: The Reader (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).
"'There Was No Better Place to Go': The Transformation Thesis Revisited, African American Migration to the Pacific Northwest, 1940-1950," in Paul Hirt, ed., Terra Pacific: People and Place in Northwest America and Western Canada (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1998).
"African Americans on the American Frontier," in Howard R. Lamar, ed., The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998) 2500 word essay on 19th Century Western black history.
"African American Men in the American West," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 569 (May 2000).
"Race and Ethnicity in the Southwest: African American and Arizona History," in Arizona Attorney 34:6 (February 1998).
"Mary Ellen Pleasant," in Glenda Riley and Richard Etulain, eds., By Grit and Grace: Women Who Shaped the Pioneer West (Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1997).
"A View of the Buffalo Soldiers Through Indigenous Eyes: A Response" Raven Chronicles 7:2 (Summer/Fall 1997).
"Through the Prism of Race: The Meaning of African American History in the American West," in Clyde A. Milner, ed., A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
"’The Civil Rights Movement in the American West: Black Protest in Seattle, 1960-1970,’” Journal of Negro History 80:1 (Winter 1995).
"Swinging the Door Wide: World War II Wrought a Profound Transformation in Seattle's Black Community," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 9:2 (Summer, 1995).
"Slaves and Free Men: Blacks in the Oregon Country, 1840-1860," Oregon Historical Quarterly 83:2 (Summer, 1982). Reprinted in Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, Mario T. Garcia, and Terry P. Wilson, eds., Peoples of Color in the American West (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994).
(with Donald Grinde) "Red v. Black: Conflict and Accommodation in the Post-Civil War Indian Territory, 1865‑1907," American Indian Quarterly 8:3 (Summer, 1984) Reprinted in Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, Mario T. Garcia, and Terry P. Wilson, eds., Peoples of Color in the American West (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994).
"African Americans in Pacific Northwest History: Retrospect and Prospect," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 7:3 (Fall, 1993).
"Disparate Images: Black Life in Contemporary Japan," Review of Regge Life's Documentary film, Struggle and Success: The African-American Experience in Japan in Annual Bulletin of the University of Oregon Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (August 1993).
"The Emergence of Black Communities in the Pacific Northwest, 1865-1910," Journal of Negro History 64:4 (Fall, 1979) Recipient, Carter G. Woodson Award for Best JNH Article, 1978‑1979. Reprinted in Kenneth L. Kusmer, ed., Black Communities and Urban Development in America, 1720-1990 10 Vols., (Hamden, Ct: Garland Publishing Inc, 1991), Vol. 4, From Reconstruction to the Great Migration, 1877-1917.
"Black Urban Development: Another View, Seattle's Central District, 1910-1940, A Case Study," Pacific Historical Review 58:4 (November 1989) Reprinted in Kenneth L. Kusmer, ed., Black Communities and Urban Development in America, 1720-1990 10 Vols., (Hamden, Ct: Garland Publishing Inc, 1991), Vol. 5, The Great Migration and After, 1917-1930.
The Twentieth Century African American West (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005)
Erasmo Gamboa and Quintard Taylor, eds., Peoples of Color in the Pacific
Northwest, 1788-1970 (publisher to be determined)
