Graham Russell Gao Hodges was born to Reverend Graham Rushing Hodges (1915–2004) and Elsie Russell (1916–2000). His siblings include Janet, Mary and Judy.[1][2][3] Hodges is the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University and in 2006–07 was a Distinguished Fulbright Professor of History at Beijing University.[4] He received a BA in 1973 and an MA in 1974 from City College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. in early American history from New York University in 1982. Hodges, who once worked as a cab driver in New York City, has published works such as TAXI! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver.[5][6][7]
Selected publications
edit- Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004)[8][9][10][11]
- Ed., Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
- Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)[12]
- Slavery, Freedom, and Culture (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
- Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey (Madison House, 1997)
- The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996)
- "Pretends to be Free": Fugitive Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (Garland Publishing Company, 1994)
- Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White (Madison House Publishers, 1993)
- The New York City Cartmen, 1650-1860 (New York University Press, 1986)
- Series ed., Studies in African American History and Culture, 106 vols. to date (Garland Publishing Company)
- Ed., Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
- David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture; 2010)[13][14][15]
More than 100 short reviews and 13 review essays in Reviews in American History, Journal of Urban History, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Slavery and Abolition.
References
edit- ^ Hodges, Graham Russell Gao (2005-10-12). Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-7601-5.
- ^ "Hodges (Rev. Graham R.) Papers, ca. 1920.; 1952-2003". lib.usm.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- ^ Hodges, Graham Russell (September 2012). New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-2461-3.
- ^ "Faculty profile". Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
- ^ "Curb Job (Published 2007)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-05-31.
- ^ "Hailing the History of New York's Yellow Cabs". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- ^ Hood, Clifton (2008). "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88554–9". Business History Review. 82 (2): 401–403. doi:10.1017/S0007680500062978. JSTOR 40539010.
- ^ Corliss, Richard (29 January 2005). "Anna May Wong Did It Right". Time.
- ^ Gottlieb, Robert (13 January 2005). "Orientally Yours". New York Review of Books.
- ^ Camhi, Leslie (11 January 2004). "FILM; A Dragon Lady and a Quiet Cultural Warrior". The New York Times.
- ^ Wang, Yiman (Fall 2007). "Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend". Labour. No. 60. pp. 311–313. ProQuest 218790959.
- ^ Riordan, Liam (May 2000), Review of Hodges, Graham Russell, Root & Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863, H-SHEAR, H-Review, retrieved 2019-07-15
- ^ "Book Excerpt of 'David Ruggles' by Graham Hodges". Wall Street Journal. 25 March 2010.
- ^ "Winch on Hodges, 'David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City' | H-SHEAR | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- ^ Alyssa (2010-10-27). "Interview: Graham Russell Gao Hodges". UNC Press Blog. Retrieved 2019-07-15.