Hooks Institute Publications
2016
Elena Delavega, PhD
Associate Director, Hooks Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, the University of Memphis
2014 Comparative Demographics by Race: Tennessee, Shelby County, and Memphis
2014 Educational Attainment by Race: Shelby County
2014
Daphene McFerren, Steven Soifer, Gregory Washington, Elena Delavega, John Gnuschke
University of Memphis Faculty Fellows
A Call for Collective Action: Tackling Social Challenges in Memphis
2013
Chunrong Jia
University of Memphis
Uneven Magnitude of Disparities in Cancer Risks from Air Toxics
2010
D'Ann Penner
University of Memphis
Overcoming: The Hidden Fury of Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath and Implications for
the Future of New Orleans
2009
Conference Overview
The Obama Phenomenon: Race and Political Discourse in the United States Today, Friday
and Saturday, April 3-4, 2009
Wilfredo Gomez
Bucknell University
Change Gonna Come: Obama's Rhetorical Genius and its Impact on Hip Hop
Usame Tunagur
Ohio University
Killing Two Birds with One Stone: A Muslim Obama
Stephanie Li
University of Rochester
Barack Obama: In Search of His Father, in Search of Himself
Vernellia R. Randall
University of Dayton School of Law
Racism, Stress and Health: Why Obama's Class Based Approach Won't Eliminate Racial
and Health Gaps
Jonathan Sciarcon
University of California at Santa Barbara
Anti-Zionist by Association: Conservative American-Jewish Perceptions of Candidate
Obama
Bill E. Lawson
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Memphis
Towards a More Perfect Union: Obama and Colorblind Public
Celia Anderson, University of Memphis
Adrienne Dixson, Ohio State University
"What Are You?" A "Post-Race" Obama America Meets Critical Race Theory
Thandeka Chapman
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Is a Post-Obama Period the Same as Post-Colonialism
2005
Antonia Darder
Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Uncertainty: Forging a New Movement
Barbara Ellen Smith
Across Races and Nations: Social Justice Organizing in the Transnational South
Doug Imig
American Standards for American Children: Mobilizing for Child Care during the 20th
Century
2004
Kenneth Andrews
Local Civil Rights Struggles and School Desegregation
Rosalee Clawson, Katherine Tate, and Eric N. Waltenberg
'For Better and For Worse?': Black Opinion on the US Supreme Court Since Brown
Kenneth Holland
Compliance with Brown v. Board of Education: The Role of Elementary Secondary Education
Act of 1965
David Meyer
Signals and Spillover: Brown v. Board of Education and Other Social Movements
Charles Payne
The Whole United States is Southern!!: Brown v. Board and the Mystification of Race
Lauren Edelman
Legal Endogeneity and the Limits of Equal Opportunity
Kim Williams
Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multicultural Movement
Barbara Ellen Smith
Racial Formations in the 'Nuevo' South
Doug Imig
Building a Social Movement for America's Children
Steven Gardiner
The More Things Change: Immigration, Demographics and the Rise of White Identity Politics
in America
2003
Kristopher Bryan Burrell
Would Brown Make It in New York City? The First Phase of the Battle for Public School
Integration, 1954-1957
Brian James Daugherity
From Desegregation to Integration: The History of the United States Supreme Court's
Historic Green v. New Kent County School Board, Virginia, Decision (1968)
2002
Kristopher Bryan Burrell
Emancipation, Elevation, and Education: Black Education in New York City during the
1830's
Kenneth Stuart Jolly
It Happened Here Too: The Black Liberation Movement of St. Louis, Missouri