Dr. Russell John Rickford is an American scholar and author. An associate professor in the History Department at Cornell University, he has written the only in-depth biography of Betty Shabazz. Russell Rickford specializes in African American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements. His previous monograph, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination , received the 2016 Hooks Institute National Book Award and the 2017 OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award. Rickford is an expert on the black radical tradition and on black liberal culture after World War II, and lectures on American social and political history, among other subjects.
Theme: The Ultimate Weakness of Violence
