Inform USA Webinar - The Legacy of Racism in American Memory

Robert Greene II is an Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina in 2019. Dr. Greene’s dissertation, The Newest South: African Americans, the Democratic Party, and Southern Politics, 1964-1994 covers the intersection of race and politics in the post-Civil Rights era. His areas of research are Southern history since 1945, African American history, and American intellectual history since Reconstruction. Dr. Greene also serves as the president of the Friends of African American Art and Culture, an affinity group at the Columbia Museum of Art, and is book reviews editor and bloggers for the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians. He also serves as Lead Instructor for the South Carolina Progressive Network’s Modjeska Simkins School of Human Rights. Finally, Dr. Greene has published several book chapters and scholarly articles, and has also written for popular publications including The Nation, Oxford American, Dissent, Scalawag, Jacobin, and In These Times.