Joseph O. Jewell, PhD
Department Head
Professor
Black Studies
Pronouns: He/Him/His
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About
Joseph O. Jewell uses comparative and historical approaches to the study of inequality that stress the inseparability of race, class, and gender. He is particularly interested in class formations in the African diaspora.
His work has been concerned with cultural and legal responses to social mobility among racial minorities, producing books and articles including Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class: The American Missionary Association in Black Atlanta, 1870-1900 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), “Mixing Bodies and Minds: Race, Class and Mixed Schooling Controversies in Atlanta and New Orleans, 1874-1887” (Patterns of Prejudice, 2014), and “Other(ing) People’s Children: Social Mothering, Schooling, and Race in Late Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and San Francisco” (Race, Gender and Class, 2014).
He is currently working on a book project that examines how racial narratives about middle-class mobility were used to sustain or alter regional racial hierarchies in the US during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
He currently serves on the editorial board of Social Science History.
Selected Publications
Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class: The American Missionary Association in Black Atlanta, 1870-1900 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
“Mixing Bodies and Minds: Race, Class and Educational Access in Two Southern Cities, 1874-1889” (Patterns of Prejudice, 2014).
“Other(ing) People’s Children: Social Mothering and Racialized Class Boundaries in Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco” (Race, Gender, and Class, 2015).
“‘We Have in this City Many Good Mexican Citizens’: The Race-class Intersection and Racial Boundary Shifting in Late Nineteenth Century San Antonio” (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2016).
“An Injurious Effect on the Neighbourhood: Narratives of Neighbourhood Decline and Racialised Class Identities in Late Nineteenth Century San Francisco” (Immigrants and Minorities, 2018).
Education
PhD, University of California – Los Angeles (1998)
MA, University of California – Los Angeles (1994)
BA, University of California at Berkeley (1991)