Adriane D. Lentz-Smith

Associate Professor of History

adriane.lentz-smith@duke.edu

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2. Previous Appointments & Affiliations

Expertise
1. Global Scholarship

Research
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2. External Relationships

Publications
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Selected Publications

On the experiences of black historians

Journal Article Modern American History · March 1, 2021 Full text Cite

The unbearable whiteness of grand strategy

Chapter · January 1, 2021 This chapter explores grand strategy as an intellectual and cultural project by considering its willful unseeing of race as a political project. To ignore race is to misapprehend how power works in the United States and how domestic formulations of subject ... Full text Cite

The laws have hurt me violence, violation, and black women's struggles for civil rights

Journal Article Southern Cultures · September 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Indispensable histories

Journal Article Oregon Historical Quarterly · June 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Passports to adventure: African Americans and the US security project

Journal Article American Quarterly · September 1, 2016 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age. By Christopher Nichols.

Other Diplomatic History · 2014 Cite

Book Review of Kimberley L. Phillips. War! What Is It Good For? Black Freedom Struggles and the Military from World War II to Iraq

Other Pacific Historical Review · August 2013 Cite

Book Review of Chad Williams. Torchbearerers of Democracy: African American Soldiers and the World War I Era

Other North Carolina Historical Review · October 2011 Cite

Website Review of Politics of a Massacre: Discovering Wilmington 1898. Created and maintained by Eastern Carolina University

Other Journal of American History · June 2011 Cite

Book Review of Elizabeth Smith-Pryor. Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of White Supremacy

Other Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 2011 Cite

Book Review of David Levering Lews, Michael Nash, and Daniel Leab, eds. Red Activists and Black Freedom: James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Other Journal of American Studies · November 2010 Cite

Book Review of Janet Hudson. Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-Era South Carolina

Other Journal of Southern History · August 2010 Cite

Reid’s Obama Blunder and What it Means

Other History News Network · January 2010 Link to item Cite

Freedom Struggles: African Americans & World War I

Book · 2009 Featured Publication Cite

Book Review of Kate Dossett, Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935

Other North Carolina Historical Review · January 2009 Cite

"Charles Young," "Brownsville Riot," "W. E. B. Du Bois"

Chapter · 2005 Cite