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Brian Purnell

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Chair of Africana Studies Department

Bowdoin College

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Africana Studies

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

History

Urban Studies

Brian Purnell is currently serving as an Africana Studies Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Chair of Africana Studies Department at Bowdoin College.

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Brian Purnell

Bowdoin College

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Chair of Africana Studies Department

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BROOKLYNITES: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough. American Nineteenth Century History (2025)

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Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York, by Douglas J. Flowe. The English Historical Review (2023)

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V. P. Franklin. the Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.. The American Historical Review (2023)

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Black New Yorkers. Journal of American History (2021)

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Biden Wins – Experts on What It Means for Race Relations, Us Foreign Policy and the Supreme Court. (2020)

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Traci Parker, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights From the 1930S to the 1980S. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 328. $90.00 (Cloth); $27.95 (Paper).. The Journal of African American History (2020)

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Charlottesville Belies Racism’s Deep Roots in the North. (2018)

deep rootsamerican studiesanti-racismblack politicscontemporary racismsociologywhite supremacyraceethnic studiesafrican identitycritical race theoryafrican american studiesracial discrimination

Freedom North Studies, the Long Civil Rights Movement, and Twentieth-Century Liberalism in American Cities. Journal of Urban History (2016)

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Black Leaders Matter. (2015)

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Stephen Tuck, We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle From Emancipation to Obama. Cambridge, Ma: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 528. Cloth $29.95.. The Journal of African American History (2014)

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Brian Purnell

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Chair of Africana Studies Department

Bowdoin College

Affiliations

Africana Studies

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

History

Urban Studies

Brian Purnell is currently serving as an Africana Studies Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Chair of Africana Studies Department at Bowdoin College.

Honors

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Education

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Brian Purnell

Bowdoin College

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Chair of Africana Studies Department

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

BROOKLYNITES: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough. American Nineteenth Century History (2025)

Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York, by Douglas J. Flowe. The English Historical Review (2023)

V. P. Franklin. the Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.. The American Historical Review (2023)

Black New Yorkers. Journal of American History (2021)

Biden Wins – Experts on What It Means for Race Relations, Us Foreign Policy and the Supreme Court. (2020)

Charlottesville Belies Racism’s Deep Roots in the North. (2018)

deep rootsamerican studiesanti-racismblack politicscontemporary racismsociologywhite supremacyraceethnic studiesafrican identitycritical race theoryafrican american studiesracial discrimination

Freedom North Studies, the Long Civil Rights Movement, and Twentieth-Century Liberalism in American Cities. Journal of Urban History (2016)

Black Leaders Matter. (2015)

american studiessocial forcesanti-racismblack politicsblack experienceblack leaders matterraceethnic studiesafrican identitycritical race theoryafrican american studiesracial discrimination

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