Dr. Russell L. Adams,  Professor and Chair

Education | Experience | Publications 

Education:

Ph.D. Political Science                  
University of Chicago

M.A. Ph.D. Political Science
University of Chicago

B.A. Political Science, Minor History/Sociology
Morehouse College, Atlanta

Experience:

1971 - Present   
Chair, Department of Afro American Studies
Howard University, Washington, D.C.

1969 - 1971       
Associate Professor and Acting Chairman, Division of Humanities 
Federal City College (now  the University of the District of Columbia) 

1965 - 1969       
Assistant Professor and Chair 
Department of Political Science, 
North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina   
 

Selected Publications by Dr. Russell L. Adams

Adams, Russell L. Black History Month:  An Intellectual and Moral Necessity. The Capstone, February 4, 2002.

_____________. Aphorisms for Music and the Visual Arts. HUArchivesNet, January 2001.

_____________. The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Three Decades Later:  How Fares the Dream. The Black Collegian Magazine. (Super Issue 2001):  88-89.

_____________. "African Americans in America's Wars."  HUArchivesNet, November 2000. 

_____________. "Slave Revolts:  A New World Calendar".  HUArchivesNet, August 2000. 

_____________. The Black Press II:  African American Firsts in Print. HUArchivesNet, May 2000.

_____________. "Epistemological Considerations in Afro-American Studies,"  Delores Aldridge and Carlene Young, editors.  Out of the Revolution:  The Development of Africana Studies.  (Lanham, MD:  Lexington Books).  pp. 39-57. 

_____________. Douglass, Washington and DuBoise:  An Essay on the Similarities and  Differences Among Them."  HUArchivesNet.  pp. 18.  

_____________. Mario Azevedo, ed.  "African American Studies and the State of the Art,"  Africana Studies, 2nd edition. (Durham, North Carolina:  Carolina Academic Press, 1998).  pp.31-49.

_____________. "African Americans."  in Russell R. Adams et al. (eds.), The New World Book of Knowledge, 79-80.  (Danbury, CT:  Grolier, 1996).  pp. 79-80.

_____________. As the Twig Is Bent. CommonQuest 1, (1996):  7-11.

_____________. "Can't We All Get Along?  The Ethics of Tolerance."  in Segun Gbadegesin et al. (eds.). Ethics, Higher Education and Social Responsibility.   (Washington, DC:  Howard University Press, 1996).  pp. 107-12.  

_____________. "The World of the Henrietta Marie"  in Madeleine Burnside (ed.) Henrietta Marie:  An Exhibit. ( Key West, FL: The Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, 1996).

_____________. "The Structural Realignment of Black Leadership,"  Government and Politics. pp. 64-71.

_____________. "Malcolm and Martin:  The Meeting,"  in Performance Guide.  Winter.  (Washington, D.C.:  The Kennedy Center).  pp. 2-12.

_____________. "Jesse Jackson" in David DeLeon, ed.  Leaders From the Sixties:  A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1994).  pp. 525-542.

_____________. "Civil Rights, "  The New World Book of Knowledge, vol. 3, "Social Change and Cultural Politics."  in Michael Frazier ed.  U.S. Government and Politics.  (Washington, D.C.:  Howard University, Political Science Department).  (1993).  pp. 24-28.

_____________. "Robert Martin:  Political Scientist,"  in Michael Baer et al, editors,  Political Science in America.  (Lexington:  University of Kentucky Press, 1991).  pp. 155-165.

_____________. Great Negroes Past and Present.  3rd ed. (Chicago:  Afro-Am Publishing Co., 1991).

_____________. "Race Relations:  The Crossover Phenomenon and the Media."  New Directions.  Howard University Magazine 14, no. 2.  (1987):  pp. 24-31.

_____________. "Intellectual Questions and Imperatives in the Development of Afro-American Studies,"  Journal of Negro Education,  53, no. 3.  (1984).  pp. 201-225.

_____________. "Analysis of the 'Roots' Phenomenon,"  Presence Africaine.  no. 116, (1980).  pp. 125-140.

_____________."Evaluating Professionalism in the Context of Afro-American Studies,"  The Western Journal of Black Studies.  4, no. 2.  (1980).  pp. 140-148.

_____________."Racial Violence and Values in 19th Century America," in Charles Frye ed.  Values in Conflict:  Blacks and the American Ambivalence Toward Violence.  (Washington, D.C.:  University Press of America, Inc. 1980).  pp. 54-112.

_____________."Douglass, Washington, and DuBois:  An Essay on the Similarities and the Differences Among Them"  HUArchivesNet. (1999)  pp. 18.

_____________."Black Studies Perspectives."  Journal of Negro Education. 46, no. 2 (1977): pp. 99-117.

_____________."Perceptual Difficulties in the Development of Political Science as a Scientific Discipline."  Varia,  2, no. 1.  (1977):  pp. 1-18.

_____________."African Americans" in The New World Book of Knowledge.  1.  (Danbury, CT: Grolier Publishers, 1970)                                          

 
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