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  • Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker

    Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker Platform: Journal of Media and Communication Volume 3, Issue 1, Media and “Race” (April 2011) pages 26-34 ISSN: 1836-5132 Sandy Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia Clarence Walker is recognised as one of the leading historians of American race relations, and is noted for…

  • The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America

    The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America University of Virginia Press October 2009 160 pages 5 1/2x 81/4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8139-2886-9 Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History University of California, Davis Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of…

  • Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture

    The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery. Their essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson has raised about American history and national culture.

  • Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

    The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of “Did they or didn’t they?” But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize.