Donald Yacovone
{{short description|American researcher, writer and academic (born 1952)}}
Donald Yacovone (born February 25, 1952) is an American researcher, writer and academic who primarily specializes in African American History.[http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/yacovone--donald-contributor-212031.php "Donald Yacovone"] at Chicago Review Press. In 2013, he co-authored with Henry Louis Gates Jr the book based on the PBS television series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.
Education
Born on February 25, 1952, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone,{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/yacovone-donald-1952|title=Yacovone, Donald 1952– |encyclopedia= Encyclopedia.com}} Donald Yacovone earned his Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 1974. He went on to earn a Master of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1977 and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1984.
Career
In 2013, Yacovone co-authored The African Americans: Many Rivers to CrossHenry Louis Gates (Jr.), Donald Yacovone, [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_African_Americans.html?id=qL93tgAACAAJ The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross], SmileyBooks, 2013. with Henry Louis Gates Jr, a book of the television series hosted by Gates Jr.[http://www.pbs.org/show/african-americans-many-rivers-cross/ "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross"], PBS. The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times.[https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168591 "Text chosen for Connecticut school’s African American History course stirs controversy"], History news Network, March 25, 2018 .Linda Conner Lambeck, [https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Text-chosen-for-Bridgeport-s-African-American-12776754.php "Text chosen for Bridgeport’s African American History course stirs controversy"], ctpost, March 25, 2018.Robert J. Benz, [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teaching-white-supremacy-how-textbooks-have-shaped_us_5a0e4f65e4b023121e0e9142 "Teaching White upremacy: How Textbooks Have Shaped Our Attitudes On Race"], Huffington Post,November 20, 2017.
He is the research manager at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at {{cite web|url=https://www.hayhouse.com/authorbio/donald-yacovone|title=Donald Yacovone - Author Biography|website=www.hayhouse.com}} and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, both at Harvard University.[https://lsupress.org/authors/detail/donald-yacovone/ "Donald Yacovone"], LSU Press. Yacovone has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education on the topic of racism through history in textbooks and in academia.{{cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Scholars-Sustained-White/243053|title=Textbook Racism: How Scholars Sustained White Supremacy|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date= April 8, 2018|publisher=}}
In 2022, Yacovone's book, Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.{{Cite web |last= |last2= |last3= |date=2023-04-22 |title=Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners announced |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-04-21/los-angeles-times-book-prizes-winners-announced |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
Bibliography
- Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War (The Library of Black America series) – February 2004
- Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871{{Cite web |url=http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/787_reg.html |title=Donald Yacovone: Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871 |access-date=2018-04-11 |archive-date=2016-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104000009/http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/787_reg.html |url-status=dead }}
As Editor
- Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past - November, 2016[https://lsupress.org/books/detail/wendell-phillips-social-justice-and-the-power-of-the-past/ "Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past"].LSU Press.
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Category:Claremont Graduate University alumni
Category:Southern Connecticut State University alumni
Category:Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Historians of race relations
Category:Writers from Hartford, Connecticut
Category:Historians from California