{"id":915,"date":"2020-06-23T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=915"},"modified":"2020-11-05T11:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:28:19","slug":"peniel-joseph","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/speaker\/peniel-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"Peniel Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peniel&nbsp;Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the LBJ School\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/csrd.lbj.utexas.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for the Study of Race and Democracy<\/a>. His career focus has been on \u201cBlack Power Studies,\u201d which encompasses interdisciplinary fields such as&nbsp;Africana&nbsp;studies, law and society, women\u2019s and ethnic studies, and political science. Prior to joining the UT faculty, Joseph was a professor at Tufts University, where he founded the school\u2019s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy to promote engaged research and scholarship focused on the ways issues of race and democracy affect people\u2019s lives. In addition to being a frequent commentator on issues of race, democracy and civil rights, Joseph wrote the award-winning books&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780805083354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Waiting \u2018Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780465013661\/Dark-Days-Bright-Nights-Black-046501366X\/plp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;His most recent book,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/14894638-stokely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Stokely: A Life<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;has been called the definitive biography of&nbsp;Stokely&nbsp;Carmichael, the man who popularized the phrase \u201cblack power.\u201d Included among Joseph\u2019s other book credits is the editing of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Black-Power-Movement-Rethinking-the-Civil-Rights-Black-Power-Era\/Joseph\/p\/book\/9780415945967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9780230620766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level<\/em><\/a>.Recent Publications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":916,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-915","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Founding Director of the LBJ School\u2019s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Joseph","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/915\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}