Violet M. Johnson
Professor of history
Contact Information:
E-mail: vjohnson@agnesscott.edu
Phone: 404 471-6191
Academic Degrees:
B.A. (Hons), Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone
M.A., University of New Brunswick
Ph.D., Boston College
Teaching and Scholarly Interests:
Professor Johnson's interests include the history of race, ethnicity and immigration in the United States, African-American history, African history, and the African Diaspora.
Professional Activities:
Recent Publications:
Book:
The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950, Blacks in the Diaspora Series (Indiana University Press, 2006).
Articles:
“Racial Frontiers in Jamaica’s Non-racial Nationhood: Understanding Race and Identity Through the Eyes of Jamaicans in the Diaspora,” in Paul Spickard, ed., Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (Routledge, 2005), 155-170.
“Family Homes and Historical Sites: Forums for Intercultural Teaching and Learning,” Johanna Lasonen and Leena Lestinen, eds., Conference Proceedings of UNESCO Conference on Intercultural Education (Institute for Educational Research, 2003) (On CD-ROM).
“Relentless Ex-colonials and Militant Immigrants: Protest Strategies of Boston’s West Indian Immigrants, 1910-1950,” in Patrick B Miller, Therese Frey Steffen and Elisabeth Schafer-Wunsche, The Civil Rights Revisited: Critical Perspectives on the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States (LIT VERLAG, 2001), 9-20.
“Black Immigrants in the United States,” in Paul Spickard and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, We Are A People: Narrative and Multiplicity in constructing Ethnic Identity (Temple University Press, 2000), 57-69.
Web Links:
History Undergraduate Program