Participant Info

First Name
Ramona
Last Name
Houston
Country
United States
State
GA Georgia
Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Website URL
www.ramonahouston.com
Keywords
American race relations, African American history, Mexican American history, African American/Latino relations, black/brown relations, Texas history
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

An American historian, Ramona specializes in 20th century American history, civil rights and race relations, specifically its African American and Mexican American dimensions. Her research focuses on how the African American and Mexican American communities worked to desegregate the state of Texas.

Through her presentations and writings, Ramona explores and critically analyzes current affairs from a historical and bicultural perspective, informing readers how contemporary issues and events relate to and/or affect the African American and Latino American communities. Ramona also hosts a blog that highlights, celebrates and promotes the history, people, culture, organizations, and events of these two communities.

Ramona is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Brownwood, Texas, she currently resides in Atlanta with her husband Terreon Gully and their princess Chase, an eleven-year-old Pomeranian. To contact or learn or more about Ramona Houston, please visit www.ramonahouston.com.

Recent Publications

Print Publications – Professional
“Casting a Wider Net: History PhDs, Change Your Perspective!” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Assocation, April 2016

Refereed Articles
“The NAACP State Conference in Texas: Intermediary and Catalyst for Change, 1937-1957,” in Journal of African American History (Vol. 94, No. 4, Fall 2009).

“The Value of African American and Latino Coalitions to the American South,” in Kennesaw State University Institute for Global Initiatives Hispanic Immigration, Education and Empowerment in the US South (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007).

Encyclopedia Entries
Biographical sketches, Handbook of Texas on African Americans, 2013.

Ramona Houston, “HARDIN, RUFUS FORLEY ,” Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhaco). Uploaded on May 15, 2013. Modified on May 24, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Ramona Houston and R. Matt Abigail, “HURDLE, ISAIAH QUIT ,” Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhuac), Uploaded on July 22, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Book Reviews
Mantler, Gordon K. Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974. Justice, Power, and Politics Series. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013) New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 89, No. 4, Fall 2014.

Behnken, Brian D. Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011) Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. CXV, No. 4., April 2012.

Other Print Publications 
“Teaching the Value of Internships: Professionals Talk About the Dos and Don’ts to Landing and Keeping the Gig,” Atlanta Association of Black Journalists newsletter The Byline, December 2011/January 2012

“At the Vanguard of NABJ Leadership: AABJ Has Been Launching Pad for NABJ Leaders; and Continues the Trend,” Atlanta Association of Black Journalists newsletter The Byline, December 2011/January 2012

Online Publications
Publishes articles and blogs online that explore and analyze current issues/events as well as highlights history, people, culture, and organizations/institutions of African American and Latino communities. (Website: www.ramonahouston.com)

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Race