Ahmed White

Ahmed White (born September 5, 1970) holds the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law Chair at the University of Colorado Law School.[1] His scholarship centers on the intersection of labor and criminal law[2] and on the concept of rule of law.[3][1] He has written numerous academic articles[1] and one book, The Last Great Strike, which details the history of the 1937 Little Steel Strike.[4][5]

Academic career

In 2000, after spending three semesters as a Visiting Professor at Northwestern University Law School, White joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Law School as an Assistant Professor; he was the second African American hired on the tenure-track faculty there. In 2007, he was promoted to Associate Professor and, in 2011, he was promoted to full professor. In 2016, he received the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law Chair.[6] "The Nicholas Rosenbaum Professorship of Law was endowed by a gift from the estate of Nicholas Rosenbaum and is used to . . . attract and retain outstanding legal scholars."[7]

The Last Great Strike

In January 2016, the University of California Press, published White's first book, The Last Great Strike, which details the Little Steel Strike. It has received several reviews.[8][9][10][4][5][11][12] Reviewer and historian Randi Storch describes the book as a "powerful read" that is "particularly relevant in today's 'post-truth' political environment."[13] History News Network gives White "great credit" for engaging in a "reevaluation" of the Little Steel Strike and its impact, and says he "shines an overdue spotlight" on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's role in the episode.[14] A review in Counterpunch calls The Last Great Strike "magisterial" and "inspiring," cautioning that "[w]hile the labor struggles of the 1930s . . . seem . . . remote from our own experience today . . ., there is much to learn by reading Ahmed White."[15] Professor Charles K. Piehl, of Minnesota State University, Mankato, writing for Library Journal, describes The Last Great Strike as the first book-length study of the well-known Little Steel Strike, and calls the book a "great read" with "wide appeal."[16] Kevin Baker, author of (among other publications) The Big Crowd, calls The Last Great Strike "a brilliant, incisive, always intriguing, sometimes heartbreaking account of critical moment in America's labor history."[17] Dale Maharidge, author of Journey to Nowhere, which inspired Bruce Springsteen's song, Youngstown, says the book is "a must-read for anyone interested in today's labor issues."[17] And Steve Fraser, author of The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power, calls the book "a superb piece of scholarship about a critical event in modern American labor history."[17]

The cover of The Last Great Strike features a detail of the painting, American Tragedy, by Philip Evergood, and is used courtesy of ACA Galleries, New York. The painting depicts the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago, Illinois.

References
  1. https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=64
  2. Ahmed A. White, Workers Disarmed: The Campaign Against Mass Picketing and the Dilemma of Liberal Labor Rights, 49 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 59, 91 (2014)
  3. Ahmed A. White, Victims' Rights, Rule of Law, and the Threat to Liberal Jurisprudence, 87 Ky. L.J. 357, 383 (1999)
  4. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163314
  5. https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/23/fdr-and-the-little-steel-strike/
  6. http://www.colorado.edu/law/sites/default/files/attached-files/viewbook_2016_0.pdf
  7. "CU Law Professor J. Dennis Hynes Named 4th Rosenbaum Professor Of Law". 19 August 1999.
  8. Storch, Randi (2017). "The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America". American Communist History. 16 (1–2): 105–106. doi:10.1080/14743892.2017.1338853.
  9. http://isreview.org/issue/104/new-deal-and-little-steel
  10. https://monthlyreview.org/2017/03/01/steelworkers-in-struggle/
  11. Dabscheck, Braham (2016). "Review of The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America". Labour History (111): 203–205. doi:10.5263/labourhistory.111.0203. JSTOR 10.5263/labourhistory.111.0203.
  12. http://socialistworker.org/2016/06/30/labors-bloody-battle-in-steel
  13. http://tandfonline.com/loi/rach20; https://www.lastgreatstrike.com/single-post/2017/08/18/Particularly-Relevant-in-Todays-Post-Truth-Political-Environment
  14. "Review of Ahmed White's "The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America"". historynewsnetwork.org.
  15. "FDR and the Little Steel Strike". www.counterpunch.org. 23 December 2016.
  16. Charles K. Piehl, LIBRARY JOURNAL at 118, JANUARY 2016
  17. Ahmed White, THE LAST GREAT STRIKE: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America, back cover (University of California Press 2016).
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