Dr. Robert Greene II

Biography

Robert Greene II is an Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University. He is co-editor, along with Tyler D. Parry, of Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Greene II is also the President of the African American Intellectual History Society, and Publications Chair for the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians. He also serves as the Lead Instructor for the Modjeska Simkins School of Human Rights for the South Carolina Progressive Network. Dr. Greene II also co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Our New South, which is currently in its second season. He has also written for various publications, including The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, and Oxford American. Currently, Dr. Greene II is working on his book, The Newest South: African Americans and the Democratic Party, 1964-1994, which details how the Southern leaders of the Democratic Party in the post-Civil Rights era crafted strategies to attract, and hold onto, the Black vote across the nation.

Education

B.A. in Creative Writing, Georgia Southern University

M.A. in History, Georgia Southern University 

Ph.D. in History, University of South Carolina

Research Interests

African American and Southern Intellectual History Since 1945; Historical Memory of the Black Past; Sport History; American Political History Since 1865.

Recent Publications

Select Publications

• Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina. Edited with Tyler D. Parry. University of South Carolina Press, 2021.
• “Glenda Gilmore and the Search for a New Southern History,” North Carolina Historical Review XCIX.3 (July 2022): 284-289.
• “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Legacy of W.E.B Du Bois.” Pages 191-206 in Forging American Freedom in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Twilight Years: No Deed But Memory. Edited by Philip Luke Sintiere. University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
• “The Mississippi Plan.” Pages 115-132 in Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and Black Struggle for a New America. Edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
• “Keeping Juneteenth Radical.” The Nation (June 20, 2022): https://www.thenation.com/article/society/juneteenth-history-holiday/. 
• “Set the Country to Stamping.” Oxford American (Winter 2019): 87-91.

Recent Presentations

 “African Americans and the Newest South,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, September 2015 

“Towards A Newest South: Media and the Making of the South in the 1970s,” Presentation at the Media and Civil Rights Symposium, University of South Carolina, April 2015. 

 “Crisis of Negro and Jewish Intellectuals: Harold Cruse and Responses to Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,” Biennial Scholars’ Conference on American Jewish History, Emory University, June 2014. 

“Before 1963: African Americans, USC, and the Battle to Desegregate Southern Universities,” African American Experiences At USC, 1865-1980 Symposium, April 2014. 

 “Black Power and the National Press: Representation of Black Power in the National Media, 1966-68”, Presentation at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Jacksonville, FL, October 2013

 “Left, Right, and Civil Rights: Memory, Race, and the Age of Reagan in Partisan Magazines,” Presentation at the New England Historical Association Conference, October 2013

 “Black Power and the Press: Newspapers and the Black Power Movement”,

Media and Civil Rights Symposium, University of South Carolina, March 2013,