Matthew Frye Jacobson is an American historian whose research concerns politics and race in all eras of American history. He is the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of African American Studies at Yale University.[1][2] From 2012 to 2013 he was president of the American Studies Association.[3]
Matthew Frye Jacobson | |
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| Title | William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies & History |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Notable works | Roots Too |
Education
editJacobson earned a BA from Evergreen State College and an MA from Boston College.[4] He received his doctorate in American Civilization in 1992 from Brown University.[5]
Works
edit- Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (1995)[6]
- Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)[7][8][9][10]
- Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)[11][12]
- Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2005)[13][14]
- What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (with Gaspar González, 2006)[15][16][17]
- The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present (2018)[18]
- Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era (2023)[18]
Film
editJacobsen served as the creator, writing, and lead researcher on the documentary film, A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation (Hammer & Nail Productions, 2019).[19] The film won a Golden Telly Award for General Television Documentary.[20]
References
edit- ^ "Matthew Jacobson named the William Robertson Coe Professor", YaleNews, November 13, 2012, retrieved April 5, 2017
- ^ "Jacobson appointed Sterling Professor of American Studies and History". YaleNews. 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
- ^ The Role of President, American Studies Association, retrieved April 5, 2017
- ^ "Cutting Through the Noise | The Evergreen State College". www.evergreen.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
- ^ Matthew Jacobson, Yale University Department of History, retrieved April 5, 2017
- ^ Kirsch, Jonathan (March 29, 1995), "In America, but Longing for Home: Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson", Book Review / Nonfiction, Los Angeles Times
- ^ Anthes, Louis C. (April 1999), "Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and All-Around:Race, Immigration, and the Politics of Color in American History", H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
- ^ Spickard, Paul (January 2001), "Review: Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson", Social History, 26 (1): 114–117, JSTOR 4286741
- ^ White, John (November 26, 1999), "Are Caucasians made or born? Whiteness of a Different Color", Times Higher Education
- ^ Tunc, Tanfer Emin (June 2008), "Recapitulating the historiographical contributions of Matthew Frye Jacobson's Whiteness of a Different Color and Gail Bederman's Manliness and Civilization", Rethinking History, 12 (2): 281–288, doi:10.1080/13642520802002372, S2CID 145218233
- ^ "Review of Barbarian Virtues", Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2000
- ^ "Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917", Nonfiction Book Review, Publishers Weekly, April 3, 2000
- ^ Hirschman, Charles (July 2007), "Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America By Matthew Frye Jacobson" (PDF), Book Review, American Journal of Sociology, 113 (1): 274–276, doi:10.1086/520896, JSTOR 10.1086/520896
- ^ Strub, Whitney (March 24, 2006), "Review of Roots Too", PopMatters
- ^ Brown, Joseph F. (December 2007), "What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America", The Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (6): 1074–1076, doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00486_1.x
- ^ Carruthers, Susan (September 2007), "What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez", Journal of American History, 94 (2): 643, doi:10.2307/25095098, JSTOR 25095098
- ^ Faucette, Brian (November 2009), "What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America", Journal of Popular Film and Television, 37 (3): 147, doi:10.1080/01956050903218166, S2CID 191468089
- ^ a b "Matthew Jacobson | Department of African American Studies". afamstudies.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation Garners Prestigious GOLD Telly Award for General Documentary | Ethnicity, Race, and Migration". erm.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "A Long Way From Home - The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation". A Long Way From Home. Retrieved 2024-03-01.