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Barbara Jeanne Fields (born 1947) is an American historian. She is a professor of American history at Columbia University . [1] Her focus is on the history of the American South, 19th century social history, and the transition to capitalism in the United States.
Jan 25, 2024 · Barbara Fields is a professor of history at Columbia University, specializing in southern history and 19th-century social history. She has written several books on slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War, such as Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground and Free at Last.
Barbara J. Fields, professor, specializes in southern history and 19th-century social history. She received her B.A. from Harvard (1968) and her Ph.D. from Yale (1978).
Mar 13, 2023 · Barbara J. Fields, celebrated historian, co-author of Racecraft, and the only historian with a doctorate to appear in Ken Burns’ The Civil War, has only made a few public comments about...
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Mar 15, 2016 · Barbara J. Fields, a historian of the South and co-author of Racecraft, argues that racism and inequality are intertwined and that democracy has failed in America. She criticizes the media for using 'racecraft' to explain social problems and praises Bernie Sanders for addressing class grievances.
Barbara Jeanne Fields, a historian and professor, critiques the belief in biological race and its role in American history and culture. She argues that race is a social construct, not a natural category, and that it has been used to justify slavery, discrimination and oppression.
FIELDS: They are the ones who placed emancipation on the nation's agenda. I don't think there's any question about that.
