Participant Info
- First Name
- Christina
- Last Name
- Proenza-Coles
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- cproenza@aol.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Scholar
- Website URL
- https://americanfoundersbook.com
- Keywords
- African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Constructions of Whiteness, Abolition, Revolutionary Atlantic
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Christina Proenza-Coles examines questions surrounding race and ethnicity with an interdisciplinary, comparative, transnational, and transhistorical framework. She has taught courses whose topics range from the historical, with particular focus on the colonial Atlantic world, to the contemporary, including the sociology of culture and immigration. Her work endeavors to shed light on current dynamics of race and ethnicity in the United States within a larger world-historical context. She recently published her first book, American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom the New World (NewSouth Books 2019) which reframes the American narrative in a hemispheric scope. She is currently working on a second book, Imagining Communities in Black and White.
- Recent Publications
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World, NewSouth Books, 2019.
“Freedom Seekers: On Black Colonialists in Seventeenth-Century America,” Lapham’s Quarterly, March 19, 2019.
“Why Are We Still Segregating Black History in February?” The Daily Beast, February 18, 2019.
- Media Coverage
- https://americanfoundersbook.com/events-media/
- Social Media
- @proenzacoles
- Country Focus
- US, Latin America, Caribbean
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic
- Expertise by Chronology
- Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Race, Slavery
