Donald Yacovone

Donald Yacovone (born February 25, 1952) is an American researcher, writer and academic who primarily specializes in African American History.[1] In 2013, he co-authored with Henry Louis Gates Jr the book based on the PBS television series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

Education

Born on February 25, 1952, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone,[2] Donald Yacovone earned his Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 1974. He went on to earn a Master of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1977 and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1984.[2]

Career

In 2013, Yacovone co-authored The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross[3] with Henry Louis Gates Jr, a book of the television series hosted by Gates Jr.[4] The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times.[5][6][7]

He is the research manager at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at [8] and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, both at Harvard University.[9] Yacovone has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education on the topic of racism through history in textbooks and in academia.[10]

Bibliography

• Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War (The Library of Black America series) – February 2004[1]
• Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871[11]

As Editor

• Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past - November, 2016[12]

References

1. "Donald Yacovone" at Chicago Review Press.
2. "Yacovone, Donald 1952–". Encyclopedia.com.
3. Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Donald Yacovone, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, SmileyBooks, 2013.
4. "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross", PBS.
5. "Text chosen for Connecticut school’s African American History course stirs controversy", History news Network, March 25, 2018 .
6. Linda Conner Lambeck, "Text chosen for Bridgeport’s African American History course stirs controversy", ctpost, March 25, 2018.
7. Robert J. Benz, "Teaching White upremacy: How Textbooks Have Shaped Our Attitudes On Race", Huffington Post,November 20, 2017.
8. "Donald Yacovone - Author Biography". www.hayhouse.com.
9. "Donald Yacovone", LSU Press.
10. "Textbook Racism: How Scholars Sustained White Supremacy". The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 8, 2018.
11. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/787_reg.html
12. "Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past".LSU Press.