Michael Flamm Manuscript Review: “In the Heat of the Summer”

Event Details

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Michael Flamm
Chair, Department of History, Ohio Wesleyan University

Garnette Cadogan
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and Visiting Scholar, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University

Michael Fortner
Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies, City University of New York

Claudrena Harold
Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia

Moderator: Andrew Kahrl, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia

Participant bios:

Michael Flamm (Featured Author):
Michael Flamm is a professor and scholar of modern American political history at Ohio Wesleyan University. He teaches a broad range of courses on U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Flamm is the author or co-author of numerous articles and six books, including; In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime (2016), Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (2005), Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives (2007), Debating the Reagan Presidency (2009), and The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (2011)

Garnette Cadogan:
GARNETTE CADOGAN is editor-at-large of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (coedited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro). He is also co-editor (with Shirley E. Thompson) of the Oxford Handbook of the Harlem Renaissance (forthcoming). He is currently a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.

Michael Fortner:
MICHAEL FORTNER is assistant professor and academic director of urban studies at the Murphy Institute at City University of New York, School of Professional Studies.  He is an associate editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP), an official section journal of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and he chairs APSA’s Ethics Committee.  His work studies the intersection of American political development and political philosophy—particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and class.  He is the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (Harvard University Press, 2015).  He also edited a volume, along with Amy Bridges, on city politics, Urban Citizenship and American Democracy (SUNY Press, 2016). 

Claudrena Harold:
CLAUDRENA HAROLD is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia.  Claudrena specializes in African American history, black cultural politics, and labor history. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South (2007), which chronicles the history of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association from the perspective of black women and men living below the Mason-Dixon Line. Her forthcoming “No Ordinary Sacrifice: New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South” details how the development of New Negro politics and thought was shaped by people, ideas, organizations, and movements rooted in the South. She is currently coediting “The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality, and Justice” and continues her exploration into the history and politics of African American music.