University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts Afro-American Studies ChairAppointed: 2007 |  |
QualificationsPh.D., University of Houston, History, 1996. Expertise and Research InterestsAfrican American Studies, History of Education and Educational Policy Studies, Social Movements. Future ResearchRevising and Expanding the anthology THE FORTY ACRES DOCUMENTS Studying Afro-Brazilian higher education opportunity Studying African Socialism Historical Biography of Carter Wesley KeywordsCOS Keywords:African Studies, African-American Studies, American History, American Studies, Native Americans, Social Movements, Women's Studies.Additional Terms:African Studies, Latin American Studies, Native American Studies, Women's Studies.MembershipsAmerican Studies Association Association for the Study of African American Life and History National Council for Black Studies Organization of American Historians Society for the Study of Social Problems Honors and Awards2005-2010,
Fulbright Senior Specialist,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State
2004-2005,
T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award,
Texas Historical Commission
Previous Positions2006-2007, Visiting Professor,
University of Oklahoma,
College of Arts and Sciences,
African and African-American Studies
2005-2007, Associate Professor of History,
Oklahoma State University,
Director of American Studies Program
1997-2005, Associate Professor,
University of Alabama,
College of Arts & Sciences,
American Studies
Publications- Celia R. Daileader, Rhoda E. Johnson, and Amilcar Shabazz (2007) Women and Others: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire, New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 224 pages, ISBN=0-312-29602-9
- Amilcar Shabazz (2004) "Carter Wesley & the Making of Houston's Civic Culture before the Second Reconstruction", The Houston Review, 1 (2), 8-13, 49-50
- Amilcar Shabazz (2004) Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 320 pages, ISBN=0-8078-5505-7
- (2001) "Carter Wesley: Sounding the Ram's Horn for Human Rights" In Ty Cashion, Frank de la Teja (eds), The Human Tradition in Texas, Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 161-75 pages (bookchapter)
- Amilcar Shabazz (1998) "One for the Crows, One for the Crackers: The Strange Career of Public Higher Education in Houston, Texas", The Houston Review, 18 (2)
- Amilcar Shabazz (1997) "Art Truths: Houston's Artistic Traditions and the Problem of Respectability", ArtLies: Texas Art Journal, 20-22
- Amilcar Shabazz (1994) The Forty Acres Documents: What did the United States Really Promise the People Freed from Slavery?, Baton Rouge, LA, The Malcolm Generation, Inc., 122 pages, ISBN=0-910758-23-9
- Amilcar Shabazz, Ernest Obadele Starks (1993) "Blacks and the Vietnam War" In James Olson (eds), The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research, Westport, Greenwood Press, 319-334 pages (bookchapter)
- Amilcar Shabazz, The Desegregation of Higher Education in Texas: A Statistical Summary and Research Report, Houston, TX, Institute for African American Policy Research, University of Houston, 1992
- Amilcar Shabazz (1991) "The African American Educational Legacy in Beaumont, Texas: A Preliminary Analysis", Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, 27, 56-76
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