Kellie Carter Jackson

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Kellie Carter Jackson
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Kellie Carter Jackson is an American historian. She is the Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on race, slavery, the abolitionists, political violence, film, and Black women's history. She is also a podcaster. She is co-host of "This Day in Esoteric History" with co-hosts Jody Avirgan and Nicole Hemmer. She is also the Executive Producer and host of "Oprahdemics: The Study of the Queen of Talk" with co-host and historian Leah Wright Rigueur. She serves as the Historian-in-Residence for the Museum of African American History in Boston along with Kerri Greenidge. She also serve as a commissioner for the for the Massachusetts Historical Commission, representing the Museum of African American History in Boston.

Education

Carter Jackson was born May 12, 1982, in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Illinois. She graduated High School in College Station, Texas from A&M Consolidated High School in 2000. She earned her BA from Howard University with a major in print journalism in 2004. She then earned She then earned an MA in 2005, an MPhil in 2006, and a PhD in 2010, all in U.S. history from the Department of History at Columbia University working under the historian Eric Foner. Her dissertation was titled, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence from 1850–1861. From 2010–2012 she was a visiting lecturer at Gonzaga University in the department of history. In 2012, she became a Harvard College Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. In 2014, she joined the faculty of Hunter College, CUNY as an assistant professor of history in the history department. She left in 2017 to join the faculty at Wellesley College in the department of Africana Studies where she earned tenure in 2021.

Research

Carter Jackson's first book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence won the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize awarded by The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. It was also a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a finalist for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Prize in 2019, and was listed by The Washington Post as "One of 13 Books to Read on the History of Black America."

Force and Freedom provides the a historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum Black activists. Drawing on the precedent and pathos of the American Revolution and Haitian Revolution, African American abolitionists used violence as a political language and a means of provoking social change. Through tactical violence, she argues Black abolitionist leaders accomplished what white nonviolent abolitionists could not: they created the conditions that necessitated the American Civil War. Force and Freedom takes readers beyond the honorable politics of moral suasion and the romanticism of the Underground Railroad and into an exploration of the agonizing decisions, strategies, and actions of the black abolitionists who, though lacking an official political voice, were nevertheless responsible for instigating monumental social and political change. In addition to the publication of Force and Freedom in 2019, Carter Jackson co-edited Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, & Memory with Erica Ball, published in 2017. With a foreword written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reconsidering Roots is the a scholarly collection of essays devoted entirely to understanding the remarkable tenacity of Alex Haley's visual, cultural, and political influence on American history in his seminal work, Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Erica Ball and Kellie have also edited a Special Issue on the 40th Anniversary of Roots for Transition Magazine. Together, Ball and Kellie have curated a collection of essays dedicated to the history and impact of Haley's Roots. Kellie was also featured in the History Channel's documentary, Roots: A History Revealed, which was nominated for a NAACP Image Award in 2016. She was featured in documentaries such as Apple TV's Lincoln's Dilemma, Civil War (or Who Do We Think We Are), PBS's Celebrating PBS's Newshour, Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America. She has also been interviewed on CBS Mornings, Good Morning America, and MSNBC.

Podcasting

Carter Jackson began podcasting in 2021 as the new co-host for Radiotopia's This Day in Esoteric History with Jody Avirgan and Nicole Hemmer. She is the Executive producer and host of Oprahdemics: The Study of the Queen of Talk also a part of Radiotopia. In each episode, the two academics and long time friends dive deep into the cultural significance and contributions of The Oprah Winfrey Show. On April 24, 2022, Oprahdemics was featured in the Oprah Daily as one of the "14 of the most powerful and promising podcasts of 2022." It was selected by NPR's Code Switch as one of the playlists of the summer and featured on Good Morning America taping at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022 with New York Times critic Wesley Morris discussing Oprah as an Actress. Harpo Inc. filed suit against Carter Jackson, Roulette Productions and Rigueur for copyright infringement.

Books

• Jackson, Kellie Carter; Ball, Erica L. (April 15, 2017). Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-5084-4. OCLC 1117445606. Search this book on
• Jackson, Kellie Carter (March 22, 2019). Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9587-0. OCLC 1085493163. Search this book on

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