John Walter
Adjunct Professor: Caribbean, African-American, African-American
Political and Legal
jcwalter@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Maine, 1971.
Selected Bibliography
"The Caribbean Immigrant and Partisan Politics in New York City,
1920-1972," Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life & History.
Scheduled for publication Winter, 2005
"The Integration Of The American Bowling Congress: The Buffalo Experience,"
Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life & History. Scheduled
for publication Winter 2005
"The Harmon Foundation and the Sponsorship of Art in Africa 1935-1968,"
Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, University of Illinois
Press, Fall, 2003, Vol. 1, No. 2
"Problems and Possibilities for Black Studies in the 21st Century,"
Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol:26,
No. 2, July 2002.
"The Influence of African American History on United States History
Survey Textbooks Since the 1970s," in Color-line to Borderlands:
Ethnic Studies as Matrix in United States Higher Education, Ed. Johnnella
E. Butler, Seattle: University of Washington Press, Fall 2002.
"The Black Athlete in America," lead article for the Encyclopedia
of American Studies, Fall, 2001.
"Thurgood Marshall," Encylcyopedia of American Studies,
Fall, 2001.
"Muhammad Ali: The Quintessential American," John Moores University,
Liverpool, U.K., American Studies Resource Centre, World Wide Web Publications,
Summer, 1999.
"The Changing Status of the Black Athlete in 20th Century USA,"
American Studies Today, Summer, 1996, City of Liverpool Community
College, England.
"African Americans in American Sports: From Ante-Bellum to the Present,"
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, Vol. 5. Macmillan
Library Reference, U.S.A., 1996. Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel
West, eds., pp. 2554-2561
Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies.
Co-edited and co-authored with Johnnella E. Butler. Albany: SUNY Press,
1991.
"Gender and the Transformation of a Survey Course in African American
History," Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women
Studies, Butler, Johnnella E. and Walter, John C., eds., SUNY Press,
1991.
"Private Foundation Grants, to American Ethnic Studies Departments
and Programs 1972-1988: Patterns and Prospects," Transforming
the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women Studies, Butler, Johnnella
E. and Walter, John C., eds., SUNY Press, 1991.
"Praxis and the Prospect of Curriculum Transformation," Transforming
the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women Studies, Butler, Johnnella
E. and Walter, John C., eds., SUNY Press, 1991.
"Who is Clarence Thomas?," The Seattle Times, July, 1991.
The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970. Albany:
SUNY Press, 1989. .
Winner of a 1990 American Book Award
"Franklin D. Roosevelt and Naval Rearmament, 1932-1938,"
FDR: The Man, The Myth, The Era, 1882-1945, Rosenbaum, Herbert B.,
and Bartelme, Elizabeth, eds., Greenwood Press, 1988.
"The Struggle Against Racism," Madelaine, Smith College
Yearbook, p. 77, 1987.
"Ambassador W. Averill Harriman" and "Lend-Lease,"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life and Times: An Encyclopedic View,
Graham, Jr., Otis L., and Wander, Meghan Robinson, eds., G.K. Hall and
Co., 1985.
"George Wallace Melville," Dictionary of American Military
Biography, Spiller, Roger J., and Dawson, Joseph G., eds. Greenwood
Press, 1985.
"Enterprise Zones: Conservative Ideology or Free Floating Political
Fantasy," Simon's Rock of Bard College Bulletin, Vol. 4, No.
1, Winter, 1984.
"Politics and Africanity in West Indian Society," Politics
and the African Legacy, The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, Brown
University, August 1984.
"Tax Exemptions For All-White Schools," Minority Voices,
Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1983.
"Frank R. Crosswaith, the Negro Labor Committee, and the Development
of the Labor Movement in Harlem, 1939-1945," The Journal of Afro-Americans
in New York Life and History, Summer 1983.
"The Caribbean Immigrant Impulse in American Life, 1900-1930,"
Revista Inter-Americana (University of Puerto Rico), Spring 1983.
"The West Indian Immigrant: 'Those Arrogant Bastards,'" Contributions
in Black Studies, No. 5, No. 2, 1981-1982.
"Congressman Carl Vinson of Georgia vs. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Naval
Preparedness and the Coming of World War II, 1933-1939," The Georgia
Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXIV, No. 3, Fall, 1980.
"Admiral William H. Standley, CNO," The Chiefs of U.S. Naval
Operations, Love, Jr., Robert William, ed. Naval Institute Press,
1980.
"Public Administration and Minorities," New Readings in Public
Administration, Kim, Jae T., ed., Kendall/Hunt Publishers, 1980.
"Frank R. Crosswaith and the Negro Labor Committee in Harlem, 1925-1939,"
Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 3, No. 2, July
1979.
"Exploding a Myth: F.D.R. and the Politics of U.S. Naval Expansion
During the New Deal," Shipmate, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni
Association, Vol. 41, No. 8, October 1978.
"The Role of the Caribbean Immigrant in the Harlem Renaissance,"
Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 1,
No. 1, January 1977.
"The Failure of the West Indian Federation," Studies in Modernization,
Purdue University, 1972.
Research in Progress
African American Artists and White Patronage in the Harlem Renaissance
Era
The Black Athlete: Breaking the Color Line: 1930-1980
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