Dr. Toure Reed
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Biography
Dr. Reed earned his BA in American Studies from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), and his PhD in History from Columbia University (New York, NY). He is a fourth generation African American educator and third generation professor. Having spent his formative years in South West Atlanta, GA and New Haven, CT, Dr. Reed's research interests center on race, class, and inequality. In addition to being a historian of African American and 20th Century US History, Dr. Reed is a shred guitar enthusiast.
Current Courses
499.026Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
309.001Selected Topics In United States History
Research Interests & Areas
Professor Reed's research projects focus principally on the impact of race and class ideologies on African American civil rights politics and US public policy from the Progressive Era through the Presidency of Barack Obama. Dr. Reed is the author of Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950, (UNC Chapel Hill Press, 2008) and is co-author of Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of Black American Thought (Paradigm Publishers, 2009 hardcover, 2010 paperback). He has also published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, LABOR, nonsite.org, Catalyst, Blackagendareport.com, Commondreams.org, Jacobin, the New Republic, and the Nation. Dr. Reed has recently completed a book titled Why Liberals Separate Race from Class: The Conservative Implications of Race Reductionism (Verso Books, February 2020) and is engaged in research for a third monograph titled New Deal Civil Rights: Class Consciousness and the Quest for Racial Equality, 1933-1948. Dr. Reed has received numerous grants and fellowships including the prestigious Kluge Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Library of Congress in support of New Deal Civil Rights.
Ph D History
Columbia University
New York, NY
M Phil History
Columbia University
New York, NY
MA History
Columbia University
New York, NY
BA American Studies
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
Influential and Inspirational Faculty
History Department
2019
Influential and Inspirational Faculty
History Department
2018
Impact Award
Illinois State University, Office of the Provost and University College
2018
Influential and Inspirational Faculty
History Department
2016
Influential and Inspirational Faculty
History Department
2016
Influential and Inspirational Faculty
History Department
2014
Influential and Inspirational Faculty
History Department
2014
Strand Diversity Award
Illinois State University
2013
Outstanding Faculty
ISU Dean of Students
2011
Outstanding Faculty
ISU Dean of Students
2007
Book Review
Glenn Feldman, ed. Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government, Spring 2018, Florida Historical Quarterly
Reed, T. Martin Kilson, Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia. Journal of American History 102.1 (2015)
Reed, T. Erik S. Gellman, Death Blow to Jim Crow. Journal of Southern History (2014)
Reed, T. Gordon Mantler, Power to the Poor. Illinois State Historical Society (2014)
Reed, T. Charles Euchner's Nobody Turn Me Around. Firedoglake.com (2013)
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
“The Educational Alliance and the Urban League of New York: Ethnic Elites and the Politics of Americanization and Racial Uplift, 1903-1931,” 95-126. Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought, Paradigm Publishers 2009.
Book, Scholarly-New
Coauthor, Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought. Paradigm Publishers, 2009 (Paperback 2010)
Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2008 (Hardcover/Paperback)
Edited Other
The Moynihan Report and the Crescent City: Culturalism and Katrina in New Orleans, ed. Touré F. Reed, nonsite.org No. 17 (Fall 2015). Symposium on the 50th anniversary of the Moynihan Report and 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Encyclopedia
Reed, T. WEB DuBois and The Philadelphia Negro. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley-Blackwell (2019)
Journal Article, Academic Journal
“Black Exceptionalism and the Militant Capitulation to Economic Inequality,” Symposium on Cedric G. Johnson’s “The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now: Anti-Policing Struggles and the Limits of Black Power,” New Politics, (Winter 2019): 8-11, https://newpol.org/authors/rred-toure-f/
“Lester Granger’s ‘Challenge to the Youth’ and Judith Stein’s Challenge to Historians,” in Festschrift to Judith Stein, nonsite.org In Press, publication Spring 2019
“Between Obama and Coates,” Catalyst, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Winter 2018): 8-54. https://www.catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates
“All Roads Named Culture of Poverty Lead to Mass Incarceration,” Symposium on Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, LABOR: Studies in Working Class History in America, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 2017): 75-79.
"Why Moynihan Was Not So Misunderstood at the Time: The Mythological Prescience of the Moynihan Report and the Problem of Institutional Structuralism" in The Moynihan Report and the Crescent City: Culturalism and Katrina in New Orleans, edited by Touré F. Reed, nonsite.org No. 17 (Fall 2015).http://nonsite.org/article/why-moynihan-was-not-so-misunderstood-at-the-time
Magazine/Trade Publication
"The Ties that Divide: How Bipartisan Identitarianism Works For the Boss and Against Citizen and Noncitizen Workers," commondreams.org, 1/22/18. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/22/ties-divide-how-bipartisan-identitarianism-works-boss-and-against-citizen-and-non
"Affirmative Action's Labor Roots," jacobinmag.com, 1/21/16, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/supreme-court-scalia-fisher-texas-bakke-affirmative-action-civil-rights/
"Why I Voted for Nader in 2000 and Will Be Voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016, 10/6/16, " The Nation Magazine, https://www.thenation.com/article/why-i-voted-nader-in-2000-and-will-be-voting-for-hillary-clinton-in-2016/
“Why Liberals Separate Race and Class,” jacobinmag.com, 8/22/15, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter-civil-rights-movement/. Reposted portsidelabor.org, 8/23/15; Reposted "Liberals are Wrong to Separate Race from Class," newrepublic.com, 8/28/15.
“Obama and the Legacy of the 1963 March on Washington,” blackagendareport.com, 8/19/08. Reposted: LAprogressive.com, 8/22/08; commondreams.org, 8/24/08; portside.com, 8/25/08.
Presentations
"The Conservative Implications of Liberal Race Reductionism". Illinois Wesleyan University-- History Department. Illinois Wesleyan University-- History Department. (2019)
Keynote: “The Moynihan Report and the Analytical Limitations of Structural Racism” Social Thought and Political Economy Center (STPEC), UMass, Amherst, 3/24/16. Workshop: “Critical Theory and Social Change: Confronting Racism in the Contemporary US.”
Panel: Elizabeth Hinton’s, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, Newberry Labor History Seminar sponsored by LABOR: Studies in Working Class History in America, 10/29/16 Presentation: “How Social Pathology and Structural Racism Bridged the Wars on Poverty and Crime”
"Why Moynihan Was Not So Misunderstood at the Time". English Department Colloquium University Illinois, Chicago. (2015)
Panel: “The Moynihan Report: Myth and Reality in the Crescent City and Beyond,” Southern Labor Studies Association, 3/7/15 Presentation: “Why Moynihan was not so Misunderstood at the Time.”
"The 1963 March on Washington and the Limits of Fair Employment Legislation". Civil Rights Education and Activism. History Education, Illinois State University. (2014)
Panel: “From Protest to Politics—Racial Democracy and the Rise of Neoliberal Solutions to Inequality, 1964-2012,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 9/26/14 Presentation: “Title VII: Workplace Fairness and the Retreat from Economic Justice”
Workshop: Cedric Johnson’s “Between Revolution and the Racial Ghetto: Harold Cruse and Harry Haywood Debate Class Struggle and the ‘Negro Question,’ 1962-1968” Center for the Study of Humanities, UIC, 3/5/14
Host online discussion with Charles Euchner author of Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963, Firedoglake.com, 2/2/13
Panel: “Class, Historiocity and the Study of African American Politics: A Roundtable discussion on Preston Smith’s Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 3/16/13
Grants & Contracts
Kluge Center, Postdoctoral Fellowship. Library of Congress. Federal. (2011)
Kluge Center, Postdoctoral Fellowship. Library of Congress. Federal. (2010)
Summer Faculty Fellowship. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2009)
Faculty Research Award. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2008)
Provost Incentive Award. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2003)
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