Kevin K Gaines
Biographic Data
| ID | 318924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin K Gaines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin K |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaines |
| SIGNATURE | GAINES K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seduced and Abandoned
Afterword by special section coeditor Kevin K. Gaines
Global Black Lives Matter
Global Black Lives Matter Kevin K. Gaines (bio) The global Black Lives Matter uprisings against police violence prompted by George Floyd's murder were connected to a longer history of transnational Black struggles. Decades of antiracist, anticolonial struggle provided the foundation for the massive, prolonged uprisings of 2020, involving more than two thousand demonstrations worldwide and some twenty-six million people, arguably the largest prote…
Reflections on 2020
In his 1953 novel of ideas, The Outsider, Richard Wright ominously predicted that industrial capitalist society would inexorably result in “the total and absolute in modern life.” Wright did not mean that Soviet communism would prevail, capturing the hearts and minds of Americans. His point was that the West's capitalist democracy was just as capable of slouching toward a dystopian, totalitarian future as the Soviet Union. How might Wright’s pres…
Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
Journal Article Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe. Get access Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 250. $28.95. Kevin K. Gaines Kevin K. Gaines Cornell University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 15…
African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RADICAL TRADITION, particularly in the post—World War II era, is a subject shrouded in historical amnesia and misunderstanding. One of the most striking misunderstandings surrounding black radicalism—and the left more generally—concerns their interaction and, at critical times, convergence with mainstream politics. It has become reflexive for many commentators to dismiss the black left, asserting its marginality or claiming t…
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black, Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Kevin K. Gaines. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxx, 312 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2239-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4543-4.) Get access James Ralph James Ralph Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, …
Global Black Lives Matter
Global Black Lives Matter Kevin K. Gaines (bio) The global Black Lives Matter uprisings against police violence prompted by George Floyd's murder were connected to a longer history of transnational Black struggles. Decades of antiracist, anticolonial struggle provided the foundation for the massive, prolonged uprisings of 2020, involving more than two thousand demonstrations worldwide and some twenty-six million people, arguably the largest prote…
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Kevin K. Gaines. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxx, 312 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2239-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4543-4.) Get access James Ralph James Ralph Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, …
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black, Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RADICAL TRADITION, particularly in the post—World War II era, is a subject shrouded in historical amnesia and misunderstanding. One of the most striking misunderstandings surrounding black radicalism—and the left more generally—concerns their interaction and, at critical times, convergence with mainstream politics. It has become reflexive for many commentators to dismiss the black left, asserting its marginality or claiming t…
Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
Journal Article Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe. Get access Matthew Pratt Guterl. Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 250. $28.95. Kevin K. Gaines Kevin K. Gaines Cornell University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 15…
Reflections on 2020
In his 1953 novel of ideas, The Outsider, Richard Wright ominously predicted that industrial capitalist society would inexorably result in “the total and absolute in modern life.” Wright did not mean that Soviet communism would prevail, capturing the hearts and minds of Americans. His point was that the West's capitalist democracy was just as capable of slouching toward a dystopian, totalitarian future as the Soviet Union. How might Wright’s pres…
Global Black Lives Matter
Global Black Lives Matter Kevin K. Gaines (bio) The global Black Lives Matter uprisings against police violence prompted by George Floyd's murder were connected to a longer history of transnational Black struggles. Decades of antiracist, anticolonial struggle provided the foundation for the massive, prolonged uprisings of 2020, involving more than two thousand demonstrations worldwide and some twenty-six million people, arguably the largest prote…
Seduced and Abandoned
Afterword by special section coeditor Kevin K. Gaines
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