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Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History. Welcome to my academic website. If you're interested in my public-facing work, please check out my personal website: robinbernsteinphd.com. I am a cultural historian who specializes in U.S. racial formation from the nineteenth century to the present. A graduate of Yale's doctoral program in ...
Robin Bernstein is a cultural historian who specializes in race and racism from the nineteenth century to the present. She teaches at Harvard, where she is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She also chairs Harvard’s doctoral program in ...
I am a cultural historian who specializes in U.S. racial formation from the nineteenth century to the present. A graduate of Yale's doctoral program American Studies and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, I am the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.
Robin Bernstein’s heavily researched and deftly written story of the progression of racism—of William Freeman’s audacious resistance to this new unfreedom—is a triumph.”— Ibram X. Kendi , author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , winner of the National Book Award
Apr 29, 2010 · When Robin Bernstein was a little girl, she perused textbooks belonging to her mother, who was pursuing a degree in early childhood education. “Of course I didn’t understand them,” said Bernstein, assistant professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality, and of history and literature.
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Robin Bernstein is the Dillon Professor of American History and a professor of African and African American studies and studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. She studies theater/performance and childhood—sometimes together, sometimes separately—with the goal of producing new knowledge about US cultural history, particularly American formations of race, from the ...
In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of “childhood innocence” has been central to U.S. racial formation since the mid-nineteenth century. Children—some imbued with innocence, others excluded from it—figured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement.
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