Karen Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2775-8159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order
Journal Article White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order Get access White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order. By Maribel Morey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. x, 317 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $34.95.) Karen Ferguson Karen Ferguson Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Search for other works by this au…
A Monastery for Laypeople: Birken Forest Monastery and the Monasticization of Convert Theravada in Cascadia
Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold in the convert West, thanks to the efforts of convert monastics trained in Thailand. This article analyzes the missionary project to “monasticize” Western lay converts through the history of Birken Forest Monastery in British Columbia, Canada, founded in …
Loss of Health Promoting Bacteria in the Gastrointestinal Microbiome of Picu Infants with Bronchiolitis: A Single-Center Feasibility Study
The feasibility of gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome work in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to determine the GI microbiota composition of infants as compared to control infants from the same hospital was investigated. In a single-site observational study at an urban quaternary care children's hospital in Western Michigan, subjects less than 6 months of age, admitted to the PICU with severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis, w…
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
This book is premised on the question of how and why the Black Lives Matter movement, arguably the most broad and successful black activism since the civil rights and black power eras, emerged during the tenure of the first black president, and what that can reveal about the prospects of building another sustained freedom movement in the United States. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor asks these questions to frame the book's larger purpose: to advocate fo…
Saving the Nation in the Age of Black Insurgency
In the months since I was invited to participate in this roundtable, Donald Trump’s election has sharpened the parallels between today’s racial politics and those of the late 1960s. During the 2016 campaign, Trump capitalized on being the “law-and-order candidate,” repeating the pledge of white conservatives like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan who called for an iron-fisted police and legal response to deal with the black insurgency of the late 1…
Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism
Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of the counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the elite liberal Ford Foundation and black power activists, arguing that codeveloped initiatives in education, community development, and the arts contributed to the recreation of racial liberalism in the neo-conservative era and beyond
Introduction—Special Issue on the Urban Legacies of the Winter Olympics
Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
David M. P. Freund, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (2007), 496 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $35.00). As an American urban historian working a
Seeking urban sustainability on the world stage
Wuf3: The Dog That Didn't Bark
Supporting Global Sustainability by Rethinking the City
Organizing the Ghetto: The Ford Foundation, Core, and White Power in the Black Power Era, 1967–1969
This article traces the relationship between the Ford Foundation and the black-power incarnation of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1967-1969, through two grants to CORE for voter registration and leadership training in Cleveland's black community. It uses this case to analyze what has often been seen as a key turning point in the history of American racial liberalism in the mid-1960s, when American society wrestled with the meaning o…
Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City
Journal Article Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City Get access Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City. By Gillette HowardJr.. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xvi, 323 pp. $39.95, isbn0-8122-3897-4.) Karen Ferguson Karen Ferguson Simon Fraser UniversityBurnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as…
Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900-1950
In 1996, Thomas Sugrue's pathbreaking The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit wrested the story of innercity devastation from present-minded social scientists and journalists to reveal the complex historical roots of the crisis. Now Henry Louis Taylor Jr. and Walter Hill's edited collection, Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis, has pushed the story back even further, to the origins of African American communities …
Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920
Journal Article Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nations Capital 1880–1920. By Jacqueline M. Moore. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. x, 257 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1903-7.) Get access Karen Ferguson Karen Ferguson Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1507…
Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anti-Colonialism, 1937-1957
Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City
Journal Article Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City Get access Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City. By Gillette HowardJr.. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xvi, 323 pp. $39.95, isbn0-8122-3897-4.) Karen Ferguson Karen Ferguson Simon Fraser UniversityBurnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
Seeking urban sustainability on the world stage
Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
Organizing the Ghetto: The Ford Foundation, Core, and White Power in the Black Power Era, 1967–1969
This article traces the relationship between the Ford Foundation and the black-power incarnation of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1967-1969, through two grants to CORE for voter registration and leadership training in Cleveland's black community. It uses this case to analyze what has often been seen as a key turning point in the history of American racial liberalism in the mid-1960s, when American society wrestled with the meaning o…
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
This book is premised on the question of how and why the Black Lives Matter movement, arguably the most broad and successful black activism since the civil rights and black power eras, emerged during the tenure of the first black president, and what that can reveal about the prospects of building another sustained freedom movement in the United States. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor asks these questions to frame the book's larger purpose: to advocate fo…
Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anti-Colonialism, 1937-1957
Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920
Journal Article Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nations Capital 1880–1920. By Jacqueline M. Moore. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. x, 257 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1903-7.) Get access Karen Ferguson Karen Ferguson Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1507…
Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as…
Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900-1950
In 1996, Thomas Sugrue's pathbreaking The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit wrested the story of innercity devastation from present-minded social scientists and journalists to reveal the complex historical roots of the crisis. Now Henry Louis Taylor Jr. and Walter Hill's edited collection, Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis, has pushed the story back even further, to the origins of African American communities …
Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City
Journal Article Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City Get access Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City. By Gillette HowardJr.. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xvi, 323 pp. $39.95, isbn0-8122-3897-4.) Karen Ferguson Karen Ferguson Simon Fraser UniversityBurnaby, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
Wuf3: The Dog That Didn't Bark
Supporting Global Sustainability by Rethinking the City
Organizing the Ghetto: The Ford Foundation, Core, and White Power in the Black Power Era, 1967–1969
This article traces the relationship between the Ford Foundation and the black-power incarnation of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1967-1969, through two grants to CORE for voter registration and leadership training in Cleveland's black community. It uses this case to analyze what has often been seen as a key turning point in the history of American racial liberalism in the mid-1960s, when American society wrestled with the meaning o…
Seeking urban sustainability on the world stage
Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
David M. P. Freund, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (2007), 496 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $35.00). As an American urban historian working a
Introduction—Special Issue on the Urban Legacies of the Winter Olympics
Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism
Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of the counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the elite liberal Ford Foundation and black power activists, arguing that codeveloped initiatives in education, community development, and the arts contributed to the recreation of racial liberalism in the neo-conservative era and beyond
Saving the Nation in the Age of Black Insurgency
In the months since I was invited to participate in this roundtable, Donald Trump’s election has sharpened the parallels between today’s racial politics and those of the late 1960s. During the 2016 campaign, Trump capitalized on being the “law-and-order candidate,” repeating the pledge of white conservatives like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan who called for an iron-fisted police and legal response to deal with the black insurgency of the late 1…
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
This book is premised on the question of how and why the Black Lives Matter movement, arguably the most broad and successful black activism since the civil rights and black power eras, emerged during the tenure of the first black president, and what that can reveal about the prospects of building another sustained freedom movement in the United States. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor asks these questions to frame the book's larger purpose: to advocate fo…
A Monastery for Laypeople: Birken Forest Monastery and the Monasticization of Convert Theravada in Cascadia
Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold in the convert West, thanks to the efforts of convert monastics trained in Thailand. This article analyzes the missionary project to “monasticize” Western lay converts through the history of Birken Forest Monastery in British Columbia, Canada, founded in …
Loss of Health Promoting Bacteria in the Gastrointestinal Microbiome of Picu Infants with Bronchiolitis: A Single-Center Feasibility Study
The feasibility of gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome work in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to determine the GI microbiota composition of infants as compared to control infants from the same hospital was investigated. In a single-site observational study at an urban quaternary care children's hospital in Western Michigan, subjects less than 6 months of age, admitted to the PICU with severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis, w…
White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order
Journal Article White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order Get access White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order. By Maribel Morey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. x, 317 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $34.95.) Karen Ferguson Karen Ferguson Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Search for other works by this au…
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