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Butler, Kim

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Photo Credit: Nick Romanenko
Front row: (L-R) Nancy Sinkoff, Paul Hanebrink, James Delbourgo, Rudy Bell, Paul Israel, Paul G. E. Clemens
2nd: Judith Surkis, Matt Matsuda, Carolyn Brown, Johanna Schoen, Walter Rucker, Marisa Fuentes, Bayo Holsey, Samantha Kelly, Toby C. Jones
3rd: Jackson Lears, Seth Koven, Gail Triner, Ann Fabian, Barbara M. Cooper, Temma Kaplan, Melissa Feinberg
Last: Louis Masur, Jamie Pietruska, Mark Wasserman, David Greenberg, Alastair Bellany, Steven Reinert, Deborah Gray White, Norman Markowitz, John W. Chambers, Virginia Yans, Leah DeVun, Camilla Townsend, Sarolta Takacs, Don Roden

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Kim Butler

Associate Professor, History and Chair of Africana Studies

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

848-445-3311
112 Beck Hall
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

African diaspora history; Brazil; race and politics of identity

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Jinga Baiana: The Politics of Race, Class, and Power in Salvador, Bahia,” in Hendrik Kraay, ed., Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s, (forthcoming, M.E. Sharpe Press, 1998)
“Abolition and the Politics of Identity in the Afro-Atlantic Diaspora: Towards a Comparative Approach,” in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora, (forthcoming)
Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Post-Abolition Brazil (Rutgers UP), 1998.