Waldo E. MARTIN

Professor
Office Hours: 
TuTh 11-12
2308 Dwinelle
(510) 642-2559
wmartin@berkeley.edu
Education: 

B.A., Duke University
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Profile: 

Courses

History 84: Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences (Fall 2004)

History 101D: Difference, Identity, and Power (Spring 2005)

History 125A: African American History to 1861 (Fall 2004)

History 125B: African Americans and Race Relations: 1861-1980 (Spring 2005)

History 275D: Problems in United States History, 1865-1990 (Spring 2002)

History 280D: Soul Deep (Fall 2004)

Representative Publications: 

The Mind of Frederick Douglass (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).

"The Making of Black America," in Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States, edited by Luther S. Luedtke (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 341-361.

"Nation Time!": Black Nationalism, The Third World, and the Jews," in Jack Salzman and Cornel West, Struggles In The Promised Land: Toward A History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States (NY: Oxford, 1997), 341-355.

Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History With Documents(NY: Bedford, 1998).

Co-Editor with Patricia A. Sullivan, Civil Rights in the United States: An Encyclopedia (NY: Macmillan, 2000).

No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America(Harvard Univ. Press, 2005).

"'Be Real Black for Me': Representation, Authenticity, and the Cultural Politics of Black Power" in James W. Cook, et.als., eds, The Cultural Turn in US History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).

"Precious African American Memories, Post-Racial Dreams & the American Nation," Daedalus, Spring 2011.

Co-Editor (with Patricia A. Sullivan) of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture at the University of North Carolina Press.