Roderick D. Bush

Roderick Douglas Bush [1] was an American philosopher, social activist, author, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–95). Born on November 12, 1945.[2] Bush grew up in the "Jim Crow" South before moving to Rochester New York as a child.[3] As a teen, he attended Howard University and became involved in the Black Power Movement.[3] He attended Kansas University where he began his doctoral work.[3] He left to become a full time political activist only to return to academia in 1998.[3] He earned his PH.D from Binghamton University in 1992.[4] He served as a faculty member at St. John's University as a Sociology Professor.[5] He died on December 5, 2013.[2]

Academic Specialization

At a collegiate level he taught and specialized in race and ethnicity, the black experience, social movements, world-systems studies, globalization, social inequality, social change, urban sociology, community organizing, political sociology.. [6]

Awards

In the book, 2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1, Bush won the best overall faculty member, best researcher/scholar, and most helpful to students.[7]
American Sociological Association Marxist Section Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
Professor-Service to Students Seton Hall University 9/97-5/98
University Research Fellow Seton Hall University 6/97-8/97
Ford Foundation PostDoctoral
Fellow Seton Hall University 9/93-8/94
University Fellow SUNY Binghamton 1/88-6/88
U.S. Public Health Fellow University of Kansas 9/67-6/70
National Competitive Scholar Howard University 9/63-6/67
Ralph Bunche Scholarship Howard University 9/63

Books

Bush was part of a working group of authors in the book, Race in the Age of Obama.[8] Bush was a contributer in the book, Transnational Africa and Globalization.[5]
He was the author of the books We are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century, The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities,[4]
The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line.[9]
He also co authored with Melanie E.L. Bush Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality?

References

  1. ↑ https://rodbush.org/
  2. 1 2 "Roderick Douglas Bush".
  3. 1 2 3 4 Furuhashi, Yoshie. "Ron Jacobs, "It's Not Race or Class -- It's Race and Class: An Interview with Roderick Bush"".
  4. 1 2 https://roderickbush.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/cv-rod-bush-12-14.pdf
  5. 1 2 Smith, Keri E. Iyall; Leavy, Patricia (1 January 2008). "Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations". BRILL – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/roderick-d-bush
  7. ↑ Awards, Faculty (30 November 2015). "2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1: Fine Arts, Humanities, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences". River Publishers – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Cunnigen, Donald; Bruce, Marino A. (4 June 2015). "Race in the Age of Obama". Emerald Group Publishing – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Bush, Roderick (28 July 2009). "The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line". Temple University Press – via Google Books.


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