Dr. Shirley Thompson is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and Associate Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. She is the author of Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans. Her new book project has the working title: “No More Auction Block for Me: African Americans and the Problem of Property.” She is the author of an influential recent article about social and political changes in Atlanta, “Georgia On My Mind,” New York Review of Books (19 November 2020.)
Shirley Thompson
