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Department of American Studies. Providence, RI 02912. PhD, Rutgers University, in United States History, 1999. BA, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, with High Honors in History, 1993. 2012 Present: Professor, Africana Studies and American Studies, Brown University. 2011 2012: James H. Rudy Professor, American Studies and History, Indiana University. 2010 2011: Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University. Robert Casement: A Biography. Under contract with UNC Press).

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The Job Market – MPG

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When you are actually on the traditional academic job market (as well as other kinds of markets), all you are doing is narrating the work that is already done, and narrating it in very specific ways for very specific audiences. Fiddling with fonts and margins and polishing a cover letter can’t make up for a lackluster CV. And join, if you haven’t already. Go there every morning. Read David Perry and Stacey Patton. I am less impressed with academia.edu or Linked-in. Potlatch of links and models. Is one li...

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Race & Race-Making – MPG

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Questions: It is a good idea to frame your reading of any list with questions. So, for instance:. How would you periodize the history of race and race-making in the postemancipation United States? What events or biographies or moments stand out as especially revealing of this periodization? How do various social formations, group dynamics, and inter-racial relations play a role in this storyline? What social forces, political currents, and cultural dynamics structure this timeline? Or of gender and class?

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General Advice – MPG

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Advice for Graduate Students. These gems aren’t mine, really. Facebook friends and colleagues have helped me to write this list. But I did rank the first ten. 1 Remember: there are no non-professional interactions. 3 Figure out what you stand for politically. Be prepared to speak up. 4 Value loyalty over cool or influence. Make friends with people who care about your ideas. Your well-being. Bleed for your friends and allies. 6 Try not to get lost in departmental/teaching politics. 9 Learn how to say &#82...

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About the Blog – MPG

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MPG started this blog as a way to keep in touch with friends after a long-distance move. He (almost) never writes about his own shop, and absolutely nothing he says here reflects the official position of his employer. He retains ruthless control over the comments. This is his sandbox and the rules are his own. If he doesn’t like your comment – if he doesn’t think of it as constructive – he won’t publish it. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Race and...

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Exam Qs – MPG

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In sharing these, my idea isn’t to make the exam easy, but to ensure that students who are preparing for exams get the same view of the landscape that I once enjoyed, and that they start to think about answers instead of questions. Africana, Fall 2014. 8220;Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing in. And that makes a case for its significance. [A question asked of a doctoral student in Africana Studies, 2014]. Africana, Fall 2014. Let’s assume that this focus on Whole Foods and queer urban pioneers relocated in ...

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About MPG – MPG

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MPG lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he teaches and talks and writes about the complexities of race and nation in American life at Brown University in the departments of Africana Studies and American Studies. He has a PhD in American History from Rutgers University, which he earned in 1999. His academic CV is right here. Whenever MPG writes for a broader public, he posts a link under the “Media”. At Brown, or by going to the Harvard University Press. And University of North Carolina Press. And he...

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Stuff for Students – MPG

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I’ve collected a few lists, guidelines, and suggestions for students on these pages (run your cursor over the tab above marked “Menu” and select from the drop-down menu). Nothing exhaustive. Just some modest signposting, typical of this age of advice-giving. 8220;Race is big in America”. Advice for White People. On Advice for White People. On Being White and F…. On Advice for White People. Eric on Weaponizing Free Speech. Preemptive quit lit,…. On What to Love. On What to Love. Dr Mom in Training. Build ...

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American Studies – MPG

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This is a roughed out quals list for graduate students interested in the history of American Studies. The list should be supplemented with texts and essays that exemplify the various approaches, practices, and “methods” described in this history. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Lynne M. Adrian, An American Studies Contribution to Social History. Journal of Social History. John J. Appel, Historiography and the Study of the American Image. Michael Bérubé, The Loyalties of American Studies.

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Blog – MPG

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8220;Race is big in America”. August 1, 2016. August 1, 2016. This is not Jonathan Franzen. The acclaimed novelist, Jonathan Franzen, has an interview in Slate. I paused, reading this interview, over that word “there.” As if race is another place entirely. Far from him. Far from his literary imagination. As if the whole of that vast, terrifying, monstrous topic could be removed from his life. I recognize that it is easy to zip off a “hot take” on Franzen, who is famous for appearing out of to...But this ...