Dr. Toure Reed
Professor
History
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Schroeder Hall - SCH 328
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
328The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1933-1968
309Selected Topics In United States History
Research Interests & Areas
Afro-American History Professor Reed's research projects focus principally on the impact of race and class ideologies on black social reform during the first half of the twentieth century. 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). Dr. Reed is currently engaged in research for two books: Why Liberals Separate Race from Class (Verso) and 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 United States History
Columbia University
New York, NY
M Phil United States History
Columbia University
New York, NY
MA United States History
Columbia University
New York, NY
BA American Studies
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
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
University Teaching Initiative Award
2006
Book Review
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)
Reed, T. David M. Lewis-Colman, Race Against Liberalism. LABOR: Studies in Working Class History in the Americas (2011)
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)
Encyclopedia
Reed, T. WEB DuBois and The Philadelphia Negro. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley-Blackwell
Journal Article, Academic Journal
“All Roads Named Culture of Poverty Lead to Mass Incarceration,” Proceedings, Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, LABOR: Studies in Working Class History in America, (accepted, 4/3/17), In Press. Anticipated Publication Fall 2017
"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).
“Title VII: The Rise of Workplace Fairness and the Decline of Economic Justice, 1964-2013,” LABOR: Studies in Working Class History in the Americas. Vol 11, No. 3 (Fall 2014): 31-36.
“Oscar Handlin and the Problem of Ethnic Pluralism and African American Civil Rights.” Journal of American Ethnic History (Spring 2013): 37-45.
Magazine/Trade Publication
"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
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
Panel: “Advocates of Racial Reform,” The Policy History Conference, 6/8/12 Presentation: “Lester Granger’s ‘Challenge to the Youth:’ Racial Uplift and New Deal Social Democracy.”
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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