David Ponton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ponton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ponton |
| SIGNATURE | PONTÓN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida , Tampa, Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond. Through the 1950s and beyond, the Supreme Court issued decisions that appeared to provide immediate civil rights protections to racial minorities as it relegated Jim Crow to the past. For black Houstonians who had been hoping and actively fighting for what they called a “raceless democracy,” these postwar decades were often seen as decades of promise. In Houston and the …
The Third Reconstruction
Journal Article The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century Get access The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. By Peniel E Joseph. (New York: Basic Books, 2022. 277 pp. $27.00.) David Ponton, III David Ponton, III University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
An Afropessimist, Antidisciplinary Rejoinder to History, Its Human, and Its Anti-Blackness
Scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds have been critical of history’s vision of itself as grounded in empiricism, its function as a secularist theodicy, and its commitment to humanism. Meanwhile, Black studies has exposed the Human as a sociopolitical construction masquerading as mere ontological fact. Yet historians remain committed to the fiction as if it were fact, occluding the ways that narrating the Human requires evading full r…
The Broken Heart of America
Journal Article The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States Get access The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. By Walter Johnson. (New York: Basic Books, 2020. x, 517 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Paper, $19.99.) David Ponton, III David Ponton, III University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
An Afropessimist Account of History
This article addresses four questions: What is Afropessimism? What is history? What can history (not) do in service of black people given the insights of Afropessimism? If history fails to service black people, what should be done with history? It argues that an unavoidable conclusion of Afropessimism is that history, a disciplinary mode of knowledge production, is tethered to the historical construct of the Human and thus is exploitative of the …
The Third Reconstruction
Journal Article The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century Get access The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. By Peniel E Joseph. (New York: Basic Books, 2022. 277 pp. $27.00.) David Ponton, III David Ponton, III University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
An Afropessimist Account of History
This article addresses four questions: What is Afropessimism? What is history? What can history (not) do in service of black people given the insights of Afropessimism? If history fails to service black people, what should be done with history? It argues that an unavoidable conclusion of Afropessimism is that history, a disciplinary mode of knowledge production, is tethered to the historical construct of the Human and thus is exploitative of the …
An Afropessimist, Antidisciplinary Rejoinder to History, Its Human, and Its Anti-Blackness
Scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds have been critical of history’s vision of itself as grounded in empiricism, its function as a secularist theodicy, and its commitment to humanism. Meanwhile, Black studies has exposed the Human as a sociopolitical construction masquerading as mere ontological fact. Yet historians remain committed to the fiction as if it were fact, occluding the ways that narrating the Human requires evading full r…
The Broken Heart of America
Journal Article The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States Get access The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. By Walter Johnson. (New York: Basic Books, 2020. x, 517 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Paper, $19.99.) David Ponton, III David Ponton, III University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
An Afropessimist Account of History
This article addresses four questions: What is Afropessimism? What is history? What can history (not) do in service of black people given the insights of Afropessimism? If history fails to service black people, what should be done with history? It argues that an unavoidable conclusion of Afropessimism is that history, a disciplinary mode of knowledge production, is tethered to the historical construct of the Human and thus is exploitative of the …
The Third Reconstruction
Journal Article The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century Get access The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. By Peniel E Joseph. (New York: Basic Books, 2022. 277 pp. $27.00.) David Ponton, III David Ponton, III University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond. Through the 1950s and beyond, the Supreme Court issued decisions that appeared to provide immediate civil rights protections to racial minorities as it relegated Jim Crow to the past. For black Houstonians who had been hoping and actively fighting for what they called a “raceless democracy,” these postwar decades were often seen as decades of promise. In Houston and the …
There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas
History (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Discipline (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works)