Join us for a discussion of interracial experiments and activism that influenced New Deal programs. Victoria Wolcott, winner of the 2022 New Deal Book Award will be joined in conversation by Kimberley Johnson, NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis. They will discuss Wolcott's deeply researched book, Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, and the little-known histories of American utopian activism that inspired the Civil Rights Movement and the activists who dreamed of a better world and fought to build it. REGISTER for the free Zoom event.
Victoria Wolcott is professor of History at the University of Buffalo, and director of the university’s Gender Institute. Her fields of specialty include 20th century United States History; African American History; Gender and Sexuality; Social and Cultural History; and Urban History. She is the newest member of the New Deal Book award review committee.
Kimberley Johnson is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Johnson’s research focuses on American and urban political development, urban and local politics, and race and ethnic politics. Johnson chairs the New Deal Book Award review committee and is a member of the Living New Deal Research Advisory Board.
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Victoria Wolcott is professor of History at the University of Buffalo, and director of the university’s Gender Institute. Her fields of specialty include 20th century United States History; African American History; Gender and Sexuality; Social and Cultural History; and Urban History. She is the newest member of the New Deal Book award review committee.
Kimberley Johnson is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Johnson’s research focuses on American and urban political development, urban and local politics, and race and ethnic politics. Johnson chairs the New Deal Book Award review committee and is a member of the Living New Deal Research Advisory Board.