Donald Yacovone
Donald Yacovone (born February 25, 1952) is an American researcher, writer and academic who primarily specializes in African American History.[1] In 2013, he co-authored with Henry Louis Gates Jr the book based on the PBS television series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.
Education[edit]
Born on February 25, 1952, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone,[2] Donald Yacovone earned his Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 1974. He went on to earn a Master of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1977 and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1984.[2]
Career[edit]
In 2013, Yacovone co-authored The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross[3] with Henry Louis Gates Jr, a book of the television series hosted by Gates Jr.[4] The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times.[5][6][7]
He is the research manager at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at [8] and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, both at Harvard University.[9] Yacovone has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education on the topic of racism through history in textbooks and in academia.[10]
In 2022, Yacovone's book, Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.[11]
Bibliography[edit]
- Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War (The Library of Black America series) – February 2004[1]
- Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871[12]
As Editor
- Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past - November, 2016[13]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Donald Yacovone" at Chicago Review Press.
- ^ a b "Yacovone, Donald 1952–". Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Donald Yacovone, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, SmileyBooks, 2013.
- ^ "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross", PBS.
- ^ "Text chosen for Connecticut school’s African American History course stirs controversy", History news Network, March 25, 2018 .
- ^ Linda Conner Lambeck, "Text chosen for Bridgeport’s African American History course stirs controversy", ctpost, March 25, 2018.
- ^ Robert J. Benz, "Teaching White upremacy: How Textbooks Have Shaped Our Attitudes On Race", Huffington Post,November 20, 2017.
- ^ "Donald Yacovone - Author Biography". www.hayhouse.com.
- ^ "Donald Yacovone", LSU Press.
- ^ "Textbook Racism: How Scholars Sustained White Supremacy". The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 8, 2018.
- ^ "Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners announced". Los Angeles Times. 2023-04-22. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ "Donald Yacovone: Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past".LSU Press.
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- Claremont Graduate University alumni
- Southern Connecticut State University alumni
- Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- Historians of race relations
- Writers from Hartford, Connecticut
- Historians from California
- Historians from Connecticut
- American male non-fiction writers