School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS)

Associate Professor of African American Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 2002

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7798
• E-mail: kjohnson@ramapo.edu
• Office: E-219
• Office Hours: WR 1:00-2:00

Education:

• B.A., Rutgers College
• M.A., Rutgers University-Newark
• Ph.D., Temple University

Convening Group:

• Africana Studies
• History
• American Studies

Courses Offered:

• Introduction to African Studies
• African Americans in Film
• African American Social and Political Thought
• Social Issues; African American History I & II
• Age of Segregation; Black Power Years
• Contemporary Africa
• U.S. Relations toward Africa and its Diaspora
• U.S. History I & II

Teaching Interest:

• The African Diaspora
• Black Urban Culture and History
• Social History
• U.S. Foreign Relations toward Africa

Research Interest:

• The African Diaspora
• Black Urban Culture and History
• Traveling to Africa
• U.S. Foreign Relations toward Africa

Recent Publications:

• Karl Johnson, "Trouble Won't Last: Black Church Resurrection and Activism in Postwar Philadelphia," in African American Urban History Since World War II, eds. Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe William Trotter, Jr. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008/09)
• Karl Johnson, "Police-Black Community Relations in Postwar Philadelphia: Race and Criminalization in Urban Social Spaces, 1945-1960," The Journal of African American History (Spring 2004): 118-134. (Refereed)

Other:

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