Robert J. Norrell
Autore di Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Sull'Autore
Robert J. Norrell is Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Tennessee.
Opere di Robert J. Norrell
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1952-02-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hazel Green, Alabama, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Virginia
- Attività lavorative
- historian
professor
writer - Organizzazioni
- Birmingham-Southern College
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
University of Tennessee - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Mellon Fellow at the University of Cambridge (1984-1985)
Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Tuebingen (2010-2011) - Agente
- Geri Thoma
- Breve biografia
- I am a native of Hazel Green, Alabama, near Huntsville, where I grew up on a 230-acre farm I try not to romanticize farm life, because there was nothing romantic about all the work required—or the difficulty in working for my father. But my farm background surely influenced my imagination—"the jades and olives and emeralds among the crops and grass and leaves and of the accents of gold and ginger and bronze from the soil and trees and animals.”
Growing up in Alabama in the 1960s, I learned by observing the intense feeling about the civil rights movement that race was the most important issue in my world. My parents often argued about race and the big personalities engaged in the current conflicts. I took along a certain preoccupation with race when I went to the University of Virginia during the 1970s. There several professors helped me gain a much better understanding of our nation's struggle with race. I acquired new insight into white bigotry, including my father's, and I gained a deep admiration for the African Americans who challenged it. By my third year in college, I knew that I wanted to make a career of writing and teaching about America's racial past.
In the 1880s and 1990s, I taught at Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In 1984-85, I went as a Mellon Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Since 1998, I have held the Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee. In 2010-11, I was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.
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- 10
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- ISBN
- 20
Norell hits the major topics and trends of the century his treatment of it is less critical than I would like. The best example I can think of is how he says that ""petty criminals" founded the Black Panthers. While some of the founders of the, correct name here, Black Panther Party for Self Defense, had been convicted of petty crimes they were also college students and several went on to earn PhDs. Norrell mentions the fact that they were armed is but not the schools and soup kitchens the they ran. It is impossible to cover every detail in the history of a century of race relation in the United States and being even handed is not a deeply held value in popular histories but I expect better from an academic.
At best this is an introduction for someone raised on the whitewashed history of primary school textbooks who is starting to question the narrative that all people have been treated fairly and given every opportunity to prosper and the only thing holding anyone back is their personal flaws. If that describes you read this, then dig deeper.… (altro)