{"id":39381,"date":"2015-01-11T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39381"},"modified":"2015-01-11T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T17:21:17","slug":"carl-n-degler-scholarly-champion-of-the-oppressed-in-america-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39381","title":{"rendered":"Carl N. Degler, Scholarly Champion of the Oppressed in America, Dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/12\/us\/carl-n-degler-scholarly-champion-of-the-oppressed-in-america-dies-at-93.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Carl N. Degler, Scholarly Champion of the Oppressed in America, Dies at 93<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/sam_roberts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sam Roberts<\/strong><\/a>, Urban Affairs Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>For four decades, as a Stanford University scholar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a commentator who envisioned a future that did not repeat the mistakes of the past, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Neumann_Degler\" target=\"_blank\">Carl N. Degler<\/a> endeavored to remedy American myopia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually from the beginning,\u201d Professor Degler once lamented, \u201cAmericans have seen themselves outside history, as a people constituting a nation of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delving into overlooked corners of history, he illuminated the role of women, the poor and ethnic minorities in the nation\u2019s evolution and was embraced as a feminist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/05\/15\/opinion\/l-affirmative-action-upholds-academic-values-269888.html\" target=\"_blank\">defender of affirmative action<\/a>. He explored the 19th century American South; compared race relations in the United States and Brazil; and traced a revival of biological <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darwinism\" target=\"_blank\">Darwinism<\/a> in debates over human behavior.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Dec. 27 at 93 in Palo Alto, Calif., his wife, Therese, confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>As an emeritus professor of American history at Stanford, Professor Degler encouraged his students to pursue less traveled intellectual paths, as he had with his book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18918\" target=\"_blank\">Neither Black Nor White<\/a>,\u201d which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1972. In it he compared the origins and legacy of slavery in the United States and Brazil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/12\/us\/carl-n-degler-scholarly-champion-of-the-oppressed-in-america-dies-at-93.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl N. Degler, Scholarly Champion of the Oppressed in America, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2015-01-10 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent For four decades, as a Stanford University scholar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a commentator who envisioned a future that did not repeat the mistakes of the past, Carl N. Degler endeavored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,83,21,459,8,20],"tags":[8666,8665,8664,2640,2702,2327],"class_list":["post-39381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-carl-degler","tag-carl-n-degler","tag-carl-neumann-degler","tag-new-york-times","tag-sam-roberts","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}