{"id":3098,"date":"2022-09-06T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=3098"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:47:59","slug":"dr-peniel-joseph","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/dr-peniel-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Peniel Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peniel 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 Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. His career focus has been on \u201cBlack Power Studies,\u201d which encompasses interdisciplinary fields such as Africana 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 \u201cWaiting \u2018Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, \u201cDark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama,&#8221; and \u201cStokely: A Life&#8221; as well as \u201cThe Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era\u201d and \u201cNeighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level.\u201d&#8221; His most recent book is &#8220;Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America&#8217;s Civil Rights Revolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3100,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-3098","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Director of the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy","speaker_last_name":"Joseph","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3098\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}