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Robert Korstad

Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708-0245
112 Sanford Inst Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Curing my historical schizophrenia

Chapter · January 1, 2016 Cite

To right these wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the battle to end poverty and inequality in 1960s America

Book · January 1, 2010 When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt." Illustrated with evocative photographs ... Cite

Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty

Journal Article JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY · 2010 Cite

Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle

Journal Article American Communist History · December 2008 Cite

NORTH CAROLINA FUND

Chapter · January 1, 2004 Cite

Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

Book · 2003 Recovering an important moment in early civil rights activism, Korstad chronicles the rise and fall of the union that represented thousands of African American tobacco factory workers in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the first half of the 20th ... ... Cite

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South

Book · January 1, 2001 The sequel to the award-winning Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking book-and-CD set of interviews about the segregation-era South. Remembering Jim Crow, the groundbreaking sequel to Remembering Slavery, is an extraordinary opportunity to read and hear t ... Cite

Child Labor

Journal Article Tar Heel Junior Historian · October 1999 Cite

Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1999 Cite

Historical inference and event-structure analysis

Journal Article International Review of Social History · January 1, 1998 Full text Cite

Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South

Journal Article Social Science History · December 1995 Cite

Response: The Possibilities for Racial Egalitarianism: Context Matters

Journal Article International Labor and Working-Class History · January 1, 1993 Full text Cite

THE POSSIBILITIES FOR RACIAL EGALITARIANISM, CONTEXT MATTERS

Journal Article INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY · 1993 Cite

Documentary projects for refugee and displaced children in Southern Africa

Journal Article Journal of Social Development in Africa · January 1, 1993 This article emphasises that the uprooting and dislocation experienced by Mozambicans has effectively separated children from their own history and cultural traditions. This is a serious problem, as the psychosocial development of children is intimately co ... Cite

Women health workers: past and present.

Journal Article American journal of public health · February 1992 Full text Cite

A medical investigation.

Other Science (New York, N.Y.) · March 1991 Full text Cite

Curing my historical schizophrenia

Chapter · January 1, 2016 Cite

To right these wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the battle to end poverty and inequality in 1960s America

Book · January 1, 2010 When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt." Illustrated with evocative photographs ... Cite

Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty

Journal Article JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY · 2010 Cite

Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle

Journal Article American Communist History · December 2008 Cite

NORTH CAROLINA FUND

Chapter · January 1, 2004 Cite

Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

Book · 2003 Recovering an important moment in early civil rights activism, Korstad chronicles the rise and fall of the union that represented thousands of African American tobacco factory workers in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the first half of the 20th ... ... Cite

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South

Book · January 1, 2001 The sequel to the award-winning Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking book-and-CD set of interviews about the segregation-era South. Remembering Jim Crow, the groundbreaking sequel to Remembering Slavery, is an extraordinary opportunity to read and hear t ... Cite

Child Labor

Journal Article Tar Heel Junior Historian · October 1999 Cite

Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1999 Cite

Historical inference and event-structure analysis

Journal Article International Review of Social History · January 1, 1998 Full text Cite

Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South

Journal Article Social Science History · December 1995 Cite

Response: The Possibilities for Racial Egalitarianism: Context Matters

Journal Article International Labor and Working-Class History · January 1, 1993 Full text Cite

THE POSSIBILITIES FOR RACIAL EGALITARIANISM, CONTEXT MATTERS

Journal Article INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY · 1993 Cite

Documentary projects for refugee and displaced children in Southern Africa

Journal Article Journal of Social Development in Africa · January 1, 1993 This article emphasises that the uprooting and dislocation experienced by Mozambicans has effectively separated children from their own history and cultural traditions. This is a serious problem, as the psychosocial development of children is intimately co ... Cite

Women health workers: past and present.

Journal Article American journal of public health · February 1992 Full text Cite

A medical investigation.

Other Science (New York, N.Y.) · March 1991 Full text Cite

Understanding history to shape the future - The new editors' vision

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · January 1, 1991 Full text Cite

Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement

Journal Article The Journal of American History · December 1988 Full text Cite

The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Other Technology and Culture · July 1986 Full text Cite

Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940

Journal Article The American Historical Review · April 1986 Full text Cite