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Clarence E Lang

Assistant Professor of History

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Areas of Specialization

20th century African American social movements, black communities and class, and urban history

Publications

Books

  • Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Book Contributions

  • "Black Power on the Ground: Continuity and Rupture in St. Louis." Peniel E. Joseph, ed., Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 67-89.
  • "Between Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Mason-Dixon Line: A Case Study of Black Freedom Militancy in the Gateway City." Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, and Helen A. Neville, eds., Race Struggles. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 231-259.
  • Hamer, Jennifer, and Clarence Lang. "Black Radicalism, Reinvented: The Promise of the Black Radical Congress." Herb Boyd, ed., Race and Resistance: African Americans in the 21st Century. Boston: South End Press, 2002. 109-136.

Edited Books

  • Lieberman, Robbie, and Clarence Lang. Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: Another Side of the Story. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Journal Articles

  • "Civil Rights Versus "Civic Progress": The St. Louis NAACP and the City Charter Fight, 1956-1957." Journal of Urban History 34.4 (2008): 609-638.
  • Cha-Jua, Sundiata K., and Clarence Lang. "The 'Long Movement' as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies." Journal of African American History 92.2 (2007): 265-288.
  • "Between Civil Rights and Black Power in the Gateway City: The Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes (ACTION), 1964-75." Journal of Social History 37.3 (2004): 725-754.
  • "The New Global and Urban Order: Legacies for the 'Hip-Hop Generation'." Race & Society 3 (2000): 111-142.
  • Cha-Jua, Sundiata K., and Clarence Lang. "Strategies of Black Liberation in the Era of Globalization: Retronouveau Civil Rights, Militant Black Conservatism, and Radicalism." The Black Scholar 29.4 (1999): 25-47.
  • "Political/Economic Restructuring and the Tasks of Radical Black Youth." The Black Scholar 28.3-4 (1998): 30-38.
  • Cha-Jua, Sundiata K., and Clarence Lang. "Providence, Patriarchy, Pathology: Louis Farrakhan's Rise & Decline." New Politics 6.2 (1997): 47-71.

Newspaper Articles

  • Benson, Christopher, and Clarence Lang. "Black Power Talked Revolution (But Achieved Reform)." Chicago Sun-Times. 26 Mar. 2006: 5B.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • "Underclass." The Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. New York: Routledge, 2007.
  • "Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz), Harriet Tubman." Making It in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic Americans. Wesport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001.
  • "National Afro-American League, Father Divine, Noble Drew Ali, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Micheaux." The Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.