Donald Yacovone

Donald Yacovone (born February 25, 1952) is an American researcher, writer and academic who primarily specializes in African American History.[1] In 2013, he co-authored with Henry Louis Gates Jr the book based on the PBS television series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

Education

Born on February 25, 1952, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone,[2] Donald Yacovone earned his Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 1974. He went on to earn a Master of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1977 and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1984.[2]

Career

In 2013, Yacovone co-authored The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross[3] with Henry Louis Gates Jr, a book of the television series hosted by Gates Jr.[4] The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times.[5][6][7]

He is the research manager at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at [8] and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, both at Harvard University.[9] Yacovone has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education on the topic of racism through history in textbooks and in academia.[10]

In 2022, Yacovone's book, Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.[11]

Bibliography

  • Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War (The Library of Black America series) – February 2004[1]
  • Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871[12]

As Editor

  • Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past - November, 2016[13]

References

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