Dr. Toure Reed
Professor
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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
309.001Selected Topics In United States History
258.001Afro-American History Since 1865
499.032Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
300.001Senior Seminar In History
291.026Undergraduate Teaching Experience In 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 a 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's second book/monograph, titled Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, was recently published by Verso Books (February 25, 2020). Dr. Reed is currently engaged in research for a third book/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-Social Sciences Education Program
2019
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
Book Review
Glenn Feldman, ed. Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government, Spring 2018, Florida Historical Quarterly
Martin Kilson, The Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880-2012, June 2015, Journal of American History
Erik S. Gellman, Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress, February 2014, Journal of Southern History
Gordon Mantler, Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974, Spring 2014, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Charles Euchner, Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington, 2/2/13, Firedoglake.com
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,” 95-125 in Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought, Paradigm Publishers, 2009
Book, Scholarly-New
Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, Verso Books, 2020, (paperback and digital), https://www.versobooks.com/books/3166-toward-freedom
Coauthor/Contributor-- Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought. Boulder: 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), https://uncpress.org/book/9780807859025/not-alms-but-opportunity/
Edited Other
The Moynihan Report and the Crescent City: Culturalism and Katrina in New Orleans nonsite.org No. 17 (Fall 2015), https://nonsite.org/category/issues/issue-17
Encyclopedia
“W.E.B. DuBois and the Philadelphia Negro,” in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, ed. Anthony Orum, 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, Vo 17, No. 2 (Winter 2019): 8-11, https://newpol.org/authors/rred-toure-f/
“Granger’s ‘Challenge to the Youth,’ Stein’s Challenge to Historians: Industrial Democracy and the Complexities of Black Politics” in Symposium in Honor of Judith Stein, nonsite.org, No. 29 (Fall 2019), https://nonsite.org/article/grangers-challenge-to-the-youth-steins-challenge-to-historians- industrial-democracy-and-the-complexities-of-black-politics
“Between Obama and Coates,” Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Winter 2018): 8-54, https://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 the Americas. 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, ed. 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,” TheNation.com, 10/6/16, https://www.thenation.com/article/why-i-voted-nader-in-2000-and-will-be-voting-for-hillary-clinton-in-2016/
“Why Liberals Separate Race from Class,” JacobinMag.com, 8/22/15 Reposted: TheDemocraticUnderground.com, 8/22/15; Portside.org, 8/23/15; RealClearPolicy.com, 8/23/15; and TheNewRepublic.com, 8/28/15, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter-civil-rights-movement
“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.org, 8/25/08, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/08/24/obama-and-legacy-1963-march-washington
Presentations
“Woke Neoliberalism: The Conservative Implications of Liberal Race Reductionism,” a lecture on Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, Donovan Lecture Series at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, March 2, 2020 (Invited)
"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
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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