American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle
Born in Canada, Jeremy Adelman received university degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he completed his DPhil in 1989. A recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, Adelman has authored or edited fifteen books.
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