Participant Info
- First Name
- Say
- Last Name
- Burgin
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA
- burgins@dickinson.edu
- Affiliation
- Dickinson College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Black Power, solidarity, women's liberation movement, criminal legal system
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of the 20th century US focusing on social movement and African American history. I’m an assistant professor in the Department of History and contributing faculty to Africana Studies at Dickinson College. My first book, Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit, was published by New York University Press in April 2024. It provides a new way of understanding the Black Power movement’s relationship to white America. I have published in the Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Women’s History Review, the Journal of American Studies, The Nation, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. I have appeared on BBC Radio Leeds and WDET. In addition, I’ve co-developed numerous lesson plans and open-platform materials that allow educators to teach the fuller, more radical history of Rosa Parks and the Black freedom movement.
- Recent Publications
New Book
Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit (NYU Press)
Latest Scholarly Article
“‘The Trickbag [of] the Press’: SNCC, Print Media, and the Myth of an Antiwhite Black Power Movement,” Journal of Civil and Human Rights 8(1): pp. 1-27
Most Recent Non-Scholarly Article
“Targeting Bail Funds and Stop Cop City Activists Is an Old Tactic,” with Jeanne Theoharis, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @sayburgin
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Politics, Race, Women
