Jeanne Theoharis
Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.[1]
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| Occupation | Professor of Political Science |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of Michigan |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Notable awards | NAACP Image Award |
Her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History; The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Award for Nonfiction.[2] Her book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award[3][4] and the 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.[5]
Life
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Theoharis speaks in 2020
She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of Michigan.[6] Her father is Athan Theoharis.[7]
Works
- Essays
- Rosa Parks' Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks
- Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "MLK Would never shut down a freeway and 6 other myths about the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter", The Root, July 15.
- Theoharis, Jeanne, Burgin, Say, 2015. "Rosa Parks wasn't Meek, Passive or Naive--and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn't Learn in School,"The Nation, December 1.
- Marchevsky, Alejandra, and Jeanne Theoharis, 2006. Not working: Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform. NYU Press.
- Marchevsky, Alejandra, Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform," The Nation, March 1.
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Beacon Press. 29 January 2013. ISBN 978-0-8070-5048-4.[8]
- Books
- Noel S. Anderson; Jeanne Theoharis; Gaston Alonso; Celina Su (1 May 2009). Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education. NYU Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-8147-8320-7.
- Theoharis, J. (2018). A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7587-6. Retrieved 2018-02-05.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Brian Purnell; Jeanne Theoharis; with Komozi Woodard (2019). The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479820337.
- Editor
- Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 January 2005). Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8285-9.
- Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 November 2009). Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3230-4.
- Jeanne F. Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, eds. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 9780312294687
References
- "Brooklyn College - Faculty Profile". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- "The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize". 2017-03-20.
- "Brooklyn College - Political Science Professor Wins NAACP Image Award for Book on Rosa Parks". cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- "Jeanne Theoharis speaks about Rosa Parks book today at Carnegie Mellon". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- Beacon Press page on paperback issue
- "Author Jeanne Theoharis Debunks the Myth of Rosa Parks". rochester.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- Jim Higgins. "Milwaukee native Theoharis wins NAACP Image Award for Rosa Parks bio". jsonline.com. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- Neil Irving Painter (March 29, 2013). "Mother of the Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” completes the portrait of a working-class activist who looked poverty and discrimination squarely in the face and never stopped rebelling against them, in the segregated South and in the segregated North.
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