Department Faculty
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Carl Nightingale Associate Professor of American Studies Co-Convener, Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice, a working group of UB's Baldy Center on Law and Social Policy Office: 1003 Clemens Hall Email: cn6@buffalo.edu |
Education
BA, Haverford College, 1981
MA in History, Princeton University, 1986
PhD in History, Princeton University, 1992
Areas of Specialization
Race, race theory and racial justice; Urban history; World history; Urban racial segregation in global perspective; Youth culture and activism; youth culture as a global phenomenon; Community organizing; African American history
Recent Publications and Work in Progress
"Segregation is Everywhere: A World History of Urban Color Lines." Book project in-progress (University of Chicago Press)
"Historical Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York.” American Historical Review 113 (2008): 48-71.
"The Transnational Contexts of Early-Twentieth-Century American Urban Segregationism." Journal of Social History 39 (Spring 2006): 668-702.
"A Tale of Three Global Ghettos: How Arnold Hirsch Helps Us Internationalize U.S. Urban History." Journal of Urban History 29 (March 2003): 257-71.
"The Global Inner City: Towards a Historical Investigation," in W.E.B. DuBois, Race and the City, eds. Michael B. Katz and Thomas J. Sugrue. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams. New York: Basic Books, 1993. Harry Chapin Prize, runner up for best book on poverty in 1993.
Current Research
Work on "Segregation is Everywhere: A World History of Urban Color Lines." This book will offer a history of urban racial inequality and segregation as phenomena that have taken shape not only the local and national level, but that have transnational dynamics as well. It will focus on the early twentieth century when efforts to segregate cities by race took place on all inhabited continents, driven by international traffic in ideas about racial conflict and race mixing, urban reformism, and the internationalization of urban real estate markets. The book will also look backward and forward from this moment of convergence, situating it within the context of other large-scale changes in urban structure, and reflecting on its meaning to contemporary concerns that American-style ghettos have appeared in Western Europe and elsewhere. The larger goal is to excavate how cities contribute to institutions of racial inequality that operate on a global scale. Primary research on cities as diverse as Madras and Calcutta, India; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Baltimore and Chicago in the U.S. will be set amidst a synthetic reading of urban histories from across the world.
In addition, Prof. Nightingale is co-convener of the Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice. A Working Group of UB’s Baldy Center on Law and Social Policy, the Seminar is a forum for racial justice issues at UB, in Buffalo, and in the greater Western-New-York/Niagara region. Every year, it sponsors an eclectic mix of programs on subjects of academic and activist interest that address institutionalized racial inequalities in all their many forms. Works-in-progress sessions, conferences, community forums, community action learning classes, student research projects, and the ongoing exhibit “Buffalo Divided and Unequal: The Racial Segregation of a City--How it Happened and What People are Doing About It.”
Recent and Frequently Taught Courses
UGC 112 World Civilizations
AMS 387 Race in the City
AMS 500 Race in the US and in Transnational Perspective
AMS 504 Topics in Cultural History (introductory graduate seminar)
AMS 560 Racial Justice in Western New York and the World, a seminar in action research
Professional Activities
American Studies Association
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Urban History Association
Association for the Study of African American Life and Culture
World History Association
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
Annual Research Grant, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, SUNY Buffalo, for research
pertaining to "Segregation is Everywhere," renewed in 2007-08 and 2008-09
Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1997-98
Lilly Fellowship, Provost's Office and the Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, 1995-96
Harry
Chapin Media Award, 1994. Runner-up for best book on Poverty in 1993
for On the Edge