White, George

Phone: 718-262-2579
Office Location: AC-3E18
gwhite@york.cuny.edu

Education:

Degree	Institution	Field	Dates
PhD	Temple University	History	2001
JD	Harvard Law School	Law	1987

Areas of Expertise:

U.S. Foreign Policy towards Africa
African American History
American Law & Society

Books in Field Of Expertise:

george white, jr.. Holding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign POlicy Toward Africa, 1953-1961. Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. .

Articles in Field Of Expertise:

george white, jr.. ""I Am Teaching Some of the Boys: Chaplain Robert Boston Dokes and Military Testin of Black Soldiers in World War II"." Journal of Negro Education. 81, number 3 Summer 2012: .

george white, jr.. "Big Ballin’!?: Vice President Nixon And The Creation Of The Bureau Of African Affairs In The U.S. Department Of State." Passport. 3 August 2010: .

george white, jr.. "Little Wheel Blues: John Lee Hooker, the Eisenhower Administration, and African Decolonization." Cercles. 5 2002: 109-126.

Non Refereed Proceedings in Field Of Expertise:

george white, jr.. ""The Military in Sub-Saharan Africa"." Encyclopedia of Military Science. forthcoming: .

george white, jr.. ""Strip Searched: Race and the Unasked Question in the Airport Scanner Debate"." Nation of Cowards. November 25, 2010: .

george white, jr.. "The Power of Naming: Glenn Beck and His "Rally"." Nation of Cowards. September 4, 2010: .

george white, jr.. "Race Matters in the Ft. Hood Shootings." Nation of Cowards. November 2009: .

george white, jr.. "There is a Stone in My Heart." SHAFR Blog. April 2009: .

george white, jr.. "Senator Edward Brooke, III." Encyclopedia of African American History. 1 2009: .

george white, jr.. "James P. Comer." Encyclopedia of African American History. 1 2009: .

george white, jr.. "Ring the Bell." SHAFR Blog. March 2009: .

george white, jr.. "The Pimps Have Left the Building." SHAFR Blog. February 2009: .

george white, jr.. "First Voices: Breaking the Cycle." SHAFR Blog. March 2009: .

george white, jr.. "A Prophecy of Class Warfare." SHAFR Blog. February 2009: .

george white, jr.. "The "No Plan"-Plan to Rebuild Iraq." SHAFR Blog. January 2009: .

george white, jr.. "Call & Response." SHAFR Blog. December 2008: .

george white, jr.. "Benjamin O. Davis. Sr." Encyclopedia of War and American Society. 2006: .

george white, jr.. "Executive Order #9981." Encyclopedia of War and American Society. 2006: .

george white, jr.. "African Americans and World War II." Americans At War Encyclopedia. 2004: .

george white, jr.. "Imperialism, United States, 1898-1914." Americans At War Encyclopedia. 2004: .

Chapters in Field Of Expertise:

george white, jr.. "The Aftermath of World War II and the Rise of Amharic, Masculine Hegemony in Ethiopia." Reconstructing Societies in the Aftermath of War. Flavia Brizio-Skov, ed 2005: .

Reviews in Field Of Expertise:

"H-Diplo" forthcoming 2012: .

"H-Diplo" June 30, 2010: online.

"Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" 2004: vol. 101, pp. 201-203.

"Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" 2003: vol. 100, pp. 253-255.

"Journal of Mississippi History" 2002: .

"The Journal of East Tennessee History" 2001: .

 

Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances:

" August 8th in America: Memory, Power, and the Meanings of a People's History " November 2011: East Tennessee Historical Society.

" Black Christian Soldiers: Reverend Robert Boston Dokes, World War II, and Religion in the Military " May 22, 2010: Society of Military History.

" Facilitator/Moderator for the panel “Citizenship, History, and Remembering African American Life,” " February 20, 2010: Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series and Black History Month Symposium, Rutgers University-Newark.

" The Lord Has Called Us to a Hard Task: Chaplain Robert Dokes, Black Soldiers, and the Practice of Transgressive Citizenship in World War II " December 2, 2009: York College Provost Lecture Series.

" Big Ballin’!?: Vice President Nixon And The Creation Of The Bureau Of African Affairs In The U.S. Department Of State " June 26, 2009: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

" We Held Out Our Eyes, Delirious With Grace: The Meaning and Significance of August 8th as Emancipation Day " February 3, 2007: Association for African American History and Historical Preservation.

Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships:

The Professional Development Award, University of Tennessee: 2002-2003.

Geraldine R. Dodge Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rutgers Institute on Ethncity, Culture, and the Modern Experience: 2001-2002.

Grants-In-Aid:

York College CETL, Creating History: The Efficacy of Using Oral History Projects in an African American History Course. 2008-2009: $3,000.

Other Professional Activities and Public Service:

REVIEWER, Eric Morgan;s book proposal "We Must Transform the World", University of Georgia Press: June 2012.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Martin Luther King Day, Knoxville, Tennessee: January 2012.

Outside Reader for the "Journal of Contemporary History": November 2011.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Hidden History of African Americans in Appalachia: November 2011.

HISTORICAL CONSULTANT, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for the upcoming documentary series on Cold War Propaganda: forthcoming, Fall 2011.

REVIEWER, Andrew DeRoche and Eric Morgan’s Manuscript Prospectus for a proposed book "Globalization and Sub-Saharan Africa" from Routledge Publishing: October 2010.

REVIEWER, Jorge Orejuela's book-length manuscript "Rap and Hip Hop in America" from Pearson Education: June 2010.

LE TRICE DONALDSON Dissertation Committe, University of Memphis: 2009-present.

Scholarly paper, “Black Christian Soldiers: Reverend Robert Boston Dokes, World War II, and Religion in the Military,” delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History: May 22, 2010.

TRAVIS HARDY Dissertation Committee, University of Tennessee: 2006-2010.

Facilitator/Moderator for the panel “Citizenship, History, and Remembering African American Life,” Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series and Black History Month Symposium, Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience: February 20, 2010.

Chair of the panel “Forgotten Chapters of the Black Freedom Struggle, 1941-1960,” the annual meeting of the American Historical Association: January 9, 2010.

Chair, William Appleman Williams Junior Faculty Prize Committee - SHAFR: 2009.

Scholarly paper, “The Lord Has Called Us To a Hard Task: Reverend Robert Boston Dokes, Black Soldiers, and the Practice of Transgressive Citizenship in World War II,” the Association for the Study of African American History and Life: October 2, 2009.

Chair of the panel “The Limits of Liberation: Southern Africa and American Foreign Relations,” the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations: June 27, 2008.

Member, Bernath-Gelfand and Rappaport Prizes Committee: 2007-2008.

Member, Program Committee - SHAFR: 2004-2006.