Race and Nation in America, from Obama to Trump
Gary Gerstle’s paper on the major struggles over race and nation in an era defined by the war on terror, the presidency of Barack Obama and the election of Donald Trump opens our new seminar series ‘The Long History of Ethnicity & Nationhood Reconsidered’. The paper will be accompanied by the presentation of the second edition of Gary Gerstle’s book ‘American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century’, to be released by Princeton University Press in February 2017. In this sweeping history of twentieth-century America Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both profoundly shaped American society.
‘The Long History of Ethnicity & Nationhood Reconsidered’ Seminar aims at systematically rethinking the history and theory of ethnicity, nationhood and nationalism. The full programme of the seminar is available at torch.ox.ac.uk/identity.
Date:
18 January 2017, 17:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2017)
Venue:
The Garden Room, Standford House, 65 High Street, Oxford
Speaker:
Gary Gerstle (Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge)
Organisers:
Nicholas Matheou (University of Oxford),
Ilya Afanasyev (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
