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Dr. Power-Greene completed his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Before arriving at Clark in 2007, he taught courses at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
A specialist in African American social and political movements, Professor Power-Greene teaches courses for undergraduates and graduate students on American history with a focus on African American internationalism and comparative social and political movements. His book, Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement (NYU Press 2014), examines black Americans efforts to agitate for equal rights in the North and Midwest in the face the American Colonization Society’s colonization movement, which hoped to compel free blacks to leave the United States for Liberia. His current research projects include a study of Hubert Harrison and the New Negro movement, an examination of white northern colonizationists, and an exploration of African American emigration movements during the nineteenth century.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in African American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007
- M.A. in African American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006
- M.Ed., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999
- B.A. in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1995
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Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid provide new narrative for Black freedom in Edda L. Fields-Black’s ‘Combee’ The American historian’s account presents enslaved people as agents of change, not passive victims awaiting white saviors
Boston Globe
February 22
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2024
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Boston, MA
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Review of Sebastian N. Page, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021
September 26
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2023
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Vol. 128
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Issue #3
American Historical Review
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USA
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‘King: A Life,’ Jonathan Eig’s deeply researched new MLK biography, reveals a man beset by insecurity and personal doubt but grounded in moral conviction
Boston Globe
May 18
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2023
Boston Globe
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Boston, MA
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Fascism in America, Past and Present
Chapter: “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA”: African American Activists Fight Fascism, from the Black Freedom Struggle to Black Lives Matter, 1950-2020Published by Cambridge University Press
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2023
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Spoken Word: A Cultural History
Boston Globe Book Review
April
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2023
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Boston, MA
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USA
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Mark Whitaker's 'Saying it Loud: 1966' Gives new insight into the Black Power Movement
Boston Globe Book Review
February 3
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2023
Boston Globe
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Boston, MA
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USA
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“We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident”: The Art of Truth-Telling Through Photography, Sculpture, and Visual Media in Samuel Rowlett, editor, In the Course of Human Events Exhibition Catalog, The Fine Arts Gallery at Landmark College
In the Course of Human Events Exhibition Catalog
May 2023
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2023
Landmark College
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June Jordan, The Poetry of Design
April 20 - June 11, 2023
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2023
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Issue #1st
American Academy of Rome
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New York, NY
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Making a Republic Imperial
Chapter: “An Empire of Illusions: Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, and African American Benevolent Empire-Building in Africa”Published by University of Pennsylvania Press
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2023
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"An Uneasy Alliance: African Americans, the American Colonization Society, and Liberia"
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2023
University of North Carolina Press
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Book Review of The Hollow Kind by Andy Davidson
New York Times Book Review
September
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2022
New York Times
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New York, NY
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USA
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The Confessions of Matthew Strong
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2022
Other Press/Random House
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“The Education of a Black Professor in Wuhan, China”
Journal of Transnational American Studies
December
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2022
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Vol. 13
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In Search of Liberty
Race in the Atlantic World
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2021
University of Georgia Press
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“Afrotopia?”: An Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
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2020
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Anti-slavery and Abolitionism in the Atlantic World
Chapter: King Cotton's Exiles: African American, Emigrationism, Abolition, and the British Atlantic WorldPublished by University Press of Montpellier
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2020
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“Look Well Before You Leap”: African Americans and the Debate over Emigration to Trinidad in the Urban North 1839 – 1841
The French Review of American Studies
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2020
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Self-Evident Media
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shoot on-location Sheffield, MA
Oct. 5, 2019
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An Uneasy Alliance: African Americans, the American Colonization Society, and Liberia
University of North Carolina Press
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Leaves Torn from the Diary of a Critic: Hubert Harrison and the New Negro Movement
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Awards & Grants
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Presidents Achievement Award for Inclusive Excellence
Clark University
2023
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NPR Best Books of 2022
National Public Radio
2022
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Nominated for Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
Associate Provost/Dean of Undergraduate Education
2024
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