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   Dr. Richard Iton
Interim Chair

Associate Professor of
African American Studies

Address:
African American Studies
Department
3-134 Crowe
1880 S. Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208-2209

Phone: 847-467-3467
Fax: 847-491-4803

Email:
r-iton@northwestern.edu
Dr. Richard Iton

Courses:

245-0 The Black Diaspora and Transnationality
319-0 Race, Ethnicity and the American Constitution
327-0 The Politics of African American Popular Culture
403-0 Diaspora Tropes and Diasporic Theory
460-0 Race, Politics, Society, and Culture

Degree:

Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.

Current Research:

A project examining the connections among culture, the state, and public policy

Recent Awards:

2001
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

2000
Best Book Award of 2000 on the Social, Cultural, and Ideological Construction of Race from the American Political Science Association

Recent Publications:

In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Oxford University Press, March 2008)
Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture and the American Left Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture and the American Left (University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
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