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Richard Breaux
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Associate Professor
Race/Gender/Sexuality Studies
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Richard Breaux Pronouns: He/ His/They
Associate Professor
Race/Gender/Sexuality Studies
Specialty area(s)
African American History; African American Studies; Black Students at PWIs; Black Feminist/Womanist Histories; African American Film, Literature and Music; Queer Black Studies; African American Sport History; Race and Mental Health in Media; Arab American History to 1965; Race and Public History; Race, Ethnicity, and Digital Humanities.
Brief biography
I grew up in Oakland, California, and expressed an early interest in the African American history and culture. I collect 78 rpm Jazz, Blues, R&B, Gospel, and Arab American records and enjoy traveling domestically or internationally with my family.
Current courses at UWL
Race, Gender, Sexuality, & Class; Race, Gender, & Sport, Introduction to Ethnic and Racial Studies; 20th Century Civil Rights Movement; Race, Ethnicity, & Sports; Introduction to ERS in the Media; History of Black Music; Racial Conflict in the Urban US; Introduction to African American Studies; Introduction to African American Studies; African Americans in the Jim Crow Era; FYE
Education
PhD - University of Iowa
MA - University of Iowa
AB - Dartmouth College
Career
Teaching history
Introduction to Black Studies; African American History to 1865; African American History 1865-1954; African American Political Situations, 1968-Present; African American Periods & Personalities; History of Black Education; W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar.
Research and publishing
"African American Collegians in Film and Television" in progress.
"Self-Determination on Wax: African American and Arab American Record Labels in the 1920s United States" in progress.
“ 'Thriving Syrian Community…Equal Partners in Democracy and Liberty' in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1894-1954" - developing into a book project
“‘Daughter[s] of the Race in Competition with the Best Stock in the Land:’ African American Women Athletes at PWIs in the Jim Crow Era, 1900-1940,” – in progress.
"Mahjari Musicians: The Recorded Sounds of Arab Americans in the Early Twentieth Century, 1912-1936," in Mariam F. Alkazemi and Claudia E. Youakim, Arab Worlds Beyond the Middle East and North Africa (Lexington, 2021), pp. 151-170.
“Songs of Nostalgia in New York City’s Long-Lost ‘Little Syria,” Syria Untold (March 5, 2021): https://syriauntold.com/writer/richard-m-breaux/
"The Greater Syrian Diaspora at 78 RPM" series, Arab America, Column (June 2020-July 2021): https://www.arabamerica.com/?s=Breaux
“Tireless Partners and Skilled Competitors: Seeing UI’s Black Male Athletes, 1934-1960,” Hill, M., Hill, L. (eds.) Invisible Hawkeyes: Iowa, Integration & the Long Civil Rights Movement. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2016, pp. 141-168.
"Bessie, Queer Black Cinema, in the 20th and 21st Centuries and Mining the Harlem Renaissance", The Apollonian 2,2 (2015): 29-48.
"On, Behind, and Ahead of the Curve: The African American Presence at UD and in Iowa" in Ahead of the Curve: The First Century of African American Experiences at the University of Dubuque (pp. 9). Dubuque, Iowa, 2015.
“Fairytales, None of them Came True: Analyzing selected Black Animated Fairytales from Coal Black to Happily Ever After, 1943-2000” in Fairytale Adaptations from Black Cultural Perspectives, eds. Laretta Henderson, Ruth McKoy Lowery, (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2013): 173-185.
“Nooses, Sheets, and Blackface: White Racial Anxiety and Black Student Presence as Power in the Midwest Flagship University, 1882-1936,” Perspectives in the History of Higher Education, 29, (September 2012), 23-43.
“The New Negro Arts & Letters Movement in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska,” in Cary D.
Wintz and Bruce R. Glasrud, eds. The Harlem Renaissance in the West (Routledge, 2012): 121-139.
“After 75 years of Magic…Disney Seeks to Silence Critics, Rewrite African American History and Cash in on its Racist Past,” Journal of African American Studies 14,4 (December 2010): 398-416.
“I’m a Cartoon! The Jackson 5ive Cartoon as Commodified Civil Rights and Black Power Ideologies,” Journal of Pan-African Studies 3, 7 (March 2010): 79-99.
“To the Uplift and Protection of Young Womanhood”: African American Women at Iowa Private Colleges and the University of Iowa, 1878-1928,” History of Education Quarterly 50, 2 (May 2010): 159-181.
“Using the Press to Fight Jim Crow at Two White Midwestern Universities, 1900-1940,” in Eileen H. Tamura, ed. The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2008), 141-164.
"We Were All Mixed Together: Race, Schooling, and the Legacy of Black Teachers in Buxton, 1900-1920," Annals of Iowa 65, 4 (Fall 2006): 301-328.
"The New Negro Arts and Letters Movement Among Black University Students in the Midwest, 1914-1940,"Great Plains Quarterly (Summer 2004): 147-162.
“‘Maintaining a Home for Girls’: The Iowa Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs at the University of Iowa, 1919-1950,” Journal of African American History 87 (Spring 2002): 236-255.
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