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Ben
Keppel
Assistant Professor
email:
bkeppel@ou.edu
Personal
Webpage
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Area
of Specialty
African-American History; the Mass Media and Social
Change in 20th-Century America; and 20th-Century Cultural,
Intellectual, and Political United States History.
Education
1984 B.A. University of California, Davis
1986 M.A. UCLA
1992 Ph.D. UCLA
Major
Publications
Jonothan Holloway and
Ben Keppel, "Black Scholars on the Line: American
Social Science and American Social Thought, 1900-1975",
(South Bend: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming).
Ben Keppel "Thinking Through a Life: Reconsidering
the Origins of Ralph J. Bunche, Journal of Negro Educatuion,
Vol 73, No. 2 (Spring 2004), 116-124.
Ben Keppel, "Kenneth B. Clark in the Patterns of
American Culture", American Psychologist, Vol 57,
No. 1 (January 2002), 29-37
The Work of Democracy: Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B.
Clark, Lorraine Hansberry and the Cultural Politics
of Race (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995)
"A Historian Reads
‘Toward a People’s Art’", in Eva
Cockcroft, John Weber and James Cockcroft, Toward A
People’s Art: Contemporary Mural Movement (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1998), pp. xxvii-xliv
/ Revised Reissue of 1977 E. P. Dutton edition
"Race, Poverty and
the Child", Research Reports from the Rockefeller
Archive Center, Spring 1998:1-3
"Ralph Bunche:
From Intellectual to Icon", The UCLA Center for
Afro- American Studies Report, 1990-1992, 14: 24-27
Current
Research Project
My second book, Race, Poverty, and the Symbolism
of the Child, will examine the symbolic place of
children in debates about race and poverty in post-World
War II America.
Current
Classes
History 2033:African-American History
to 1865
History 2043: African-American History since 1865
History 3433: Cold War America
History 3653: Media and Social Change in the Twentieth
Century US
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