John H. Bracey, Jr.

Curriculum Vitae

jhbracey@afroam.umass.edu

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Professor John H. Bracey, Jr., has taught in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1972. He is co-director of the department’s graduate certificate in African Diaspora Studies.  His major academic interests are in African American social history, radical ideologies and movements, and the history of African American Women and more recently the interactions between Native Americans and African Americans, and Afro-Latinos in the United States.  During the 1960s, Professor Bracey was active in the Civil Rights, Black Liberation, and other radical movements in Chicago. Since his arrival at UMass he has maintained those interests and commitments both on campus and in the wider world. His publications include several co-edited volumes, include Black Nationalism in America (1970);  the prize winning African American Women and the Vote: 1837-1965 (1997); Strangers and Neighbors: Relations between Blacks and Jews in the United States (with Maurianne Adams, 1999); and, African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century (with Manisha Sinha, 2004).

Professor Bracey’s scholarship also includes editorial work on the microfilm series Black Studies Research Sources (LexisNexis), which includes the Papers of the NAACP, Amiri Baraka, the Revolutionary Action Movement, A. Phillip Randolph, Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, and the Papers of Horace Mann Bond. Professor Bracey is a co-editor with Professor James Smethurst and Professor Emerita Sonia Sanchez of SOS: Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader (2014).  

Publications

	SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader Edited by John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014) A major anthology of readings from the Black Arts Movement.
	Los Jacobinos Negros  by C.L.R. James with an introduction by John Bracey. (Casa De Las Americas, 2010)
	We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975  by Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford, Jr.) with an introduction by John Bracey,   (Charles H. Kerr, 2007)
	Facing Reality by C.L.R. James and Grace C. Lee with a new introduction by John H. Bracey, (Charles H. Kerr, 2006)
	African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century, with Manisha Sinha Volume One: to 1877 (Prentice Hall, 2004)
	African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century, with Manisha Sinha Volume Two: From 1865 to the Present   (Prentice Hall, 2004)
	African American Women and the Vote, 1937-1965, with Ann D. Gordon, Bettye Collier-Thomas, Arlene Voski Avakian and Joyce Avrech Berkman
	Strangers & Neighbors: Relations between Blacks and Jews in the United States by Maurianne Adams and John Bracey, with an introduction by Julian Bond (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000)
	Black Protest in the Sixties, Edited by August Meier, Elliot Rudwick and John Bracey, Jr. (Markus Wiener Publishing, 1991)
	The Afro-Americans: Selected Documents with August Meier and Elliot Rudwick (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1972)
	Black Matriarchy: Myth or Reality? with August Meier and Elliot Rudwick (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1971)
	The Black Sociologists: The First Half Century with August Meier and Elliot Rudwick (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1971)
	Black Nationalism in America with August Meier and Elliot Rudwick (Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970)