Roderick D. Bush
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Roderick Douglas Bush [1] was an American philosopher, social activist, author, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–95). Born on November 12, 1945.[2] Bush grew up in the "Jim Crow" South before moving to Rochester New York as a child.[3] As a teen, he attended Howard University and became involved in the Black Power Movement.[3] He attended Kansas University where he began his doctoral work.[3] He left to become a full time political activist only to return to academia in 1998.[3] He earned his PH.D from Binghamton University in 1992.[4] He served as a faculty member at St. John's University as a Sociology Professor.[5] He died on December 5, 2013.[2]
Academic Specialization
At a collegiate level he taught and specialized in race and ethnicity, the black experience, social movements, world-systems studies, globalization, social inequality, social change, urban sociology, community organizing, political sociology.. [6]
Awards
In the book, 2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1, Bush won the best overall faculty member, best researcher/scholar, and most helpful to students.[7]
American Sociological Association Marxist Section Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
Professor-Service to Students Seton Hall University 9/97-5/98
University Research Fellow Seton Hall University 6/97-8/97
Ford Foundation PostDoctoral
Fellow Seton Hall University 9/93-8/94
University Fellow SUNY Binghamton 1/88-6/88
U.S. Public Health Fellow University of Kansas 9/67-6/70
National Competitive Scholar Howard University 9/63-6/67
Ralph Bunche Scholarship Howard University 9/63
Books
Bush was part of a working group of authors in the book, Race in the Age of Obama.[8] Bush was a contributer in the book, Transnational Africa and Globalization.[5]
He was the author of the books We are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the
American Century, The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities,[4]
The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line.[9]
He also co authored with Melanie E.L. Bush Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality?
References
- ^ https://rodbush.org/
- ^ a b "Roderick Douglas Bush".
- ^ a b c d Furuhashi, Yoshie. "Ron Jacobs, "It's Not Race or Class -- It's Race and Class: An Interview with Roderick Bush"".
- ^ a b https://roderickbush.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/cv-rod-bush-12-14.pdf
- ^ a b Smith, Keri E. Iyall; Leavy, Patricia (1 January 2008). "Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations". BRILL – via Google Books.
- ^ http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/roderick-d-bush
- ^ Awards, Faculty (30 November 2015). "2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1: Fine Arts, Humanities, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences". River Publishers – via Google Books.
- ^ Cunnigen, Donald; Bruce, Marino A. (4 June 2015). "Race in the Age of Obama". Emerald Group Publishing – via Google Books.
- ^ Bush, Roderick (28 July 2009). "The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line". Temple University Press – via Google Books.
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Black Power
- Activists for African-American civil rights
- Socialism in the United States
- Anti-poverty advocates
- Anti-racism activists
- American political writers
- American male writers
- American social commentators
- 2013 deaths
- 1945 births
- 20th-century philosophers
- 21st-century philosophers
- African-American academics
- African-American Christians
- African-American philosophers
- African-American studies scholars
- Binghamton University alumni
- Faculty by university or college in New York
- St. John's University (New York City) people