Prof. Brenda Gayle Plummer
Brenda Gayle Plummer is a historian whose research includes race and gender,
international relations, and civil rights. Her work ranges from essays on Haitian-American
relations to studies of Afro-Americans, race, and foreign affairs. Plummer has
taught Afro-American history throughout her twenty years experience in higher
education. Plummer has taught at historically black Fisk University, the
University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Minnesota, and the
University of Wisconsin.
Plummer's publications include articles and reviews that have appeared in such
journals as Phylon, International History Review, TransAfrica Forum, Latin
American Research Review, and Diplomatic History, American Historical Review,
and the Journal of American History. She has contributed
to a number of collections and reference works. Plummer is also the author
of three books of original scholarship and the recipient of book prizes in Afro-American
history and diplomatic history respectively from the American Historical
Association, and the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Education
B.A., Antioch College, 1969
M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1973
Ph.D., Cornell University
Books
Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915, 1988
Haiti: The Psychological Moment [Haiti and the United States],
1992
Rising Wind: Black Americans and U. S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960, 1996
Publications
"Firmin and Marté at the Intersection of Pan-Americanism and Pan-Africanism,"
in Jeffrey Belnap and Raul Fernandez, eds., José Marté's
"Our America": From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies (Duke
University Press, 1998), pp. 210-227.
"Castro in Harlem: A Cold War Watershed," in Allen Hunter, ed.,
Rethinking the Cold War: Essays on Its Dynamics, Meaning, and Morality (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1997).
"'Below the Level of Men': African-Americans, Race, and the History of
U. S. Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 20 (Fall 1996):
639-650.
"The Afro-American Response to the Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934,"
Phylon 43 (June l982):125-143. Forthcoming Work: America's
Dilemma: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs (University of North
Carolina Press).
Interests
Civil rights and modern Afro-American history
Race and international affairs
African diaspora history
Courses Taught
Afro-American History Since 1900
History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
America's Impact Abroad
African and Afro-American Historical Linkages
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