Jeb Middlebrook is a PhD candidate in American studies & ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and director of the Solidarity Institute. His dissertation is titled, Challenging the White Supremacist System: Antiracist Organizing and Multiracial Alliance in the United States. Jeb lectures nationally through the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture on topics of race, social movements, and popular culture, and will be on the job market for a tenure-track position as a university professor in 2010-2011.
Jeb Middlebrook publishes chapter, “Rhyme and Reason: The Making of a White Antiracist Rap Group” in the upcoming book Accountability and White-Antiracist Organizing published by Crandall, Dostie & Douglass books. The chapter is an auto-ethnographic and sociological study of Jeb’s involvement in an antiracist rap group from 2003-2010.
The book project was an organizational partnership with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond in New Orleans with all profits from the book going to support antiracist and racial justice organizing programs by the Institute. Order copies of the book at http://www.cddbooks.com/ on November 1, 2010.
American Quarterly: The Journal of the American Studies Association published the article “The Ballot Box and Beyond: The (Im)Possibilities of White Antiracist Organizing” by Jeb Middlebrook in the June Issue, Volume 62, Number 2.
The PDF of the article is available for download here: http://www.jebmiddlebrook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/62.2.middlebrook.pdf
Jeb Middlebrook received recognition as managing editor of the March issue of American Quarterly, Volume 62 Number 1.
More info and table of contents below:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/toc/aq.62.1.html
Jeb Middlebrook received recognition as managing editor of the December issue of American Quarterly, Volume 61 Number 4.
More info and table of contents: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/toc/aq.61.4.html
This is the Power Point presentation from which Jeb Middlebrook spoke on “Challenging White Supremacy: Multiracial Alliance and Antiracist Organizing in the U.S.” to American Studies & Ethnicity 101 (AMST 101) at the University of Southern California on December 1st, 2009.
Mon, Sept 28, 2009 @ 7PM
22nd Annual Peace Studies Conference
Jeb Middlebrook, Keynote:
“Solidarity Spirit: Living Racial Justice in the Age of Obama”
St. John’s University
Collegeville, Minnesota
More info: http://www.csbsju.edu/peacestudies/conferences/.htm
Audio of the talk
Q&A, Part 1
Q&A, Part 2
Jeb Middlebrook was recognized by American Quarterly editor, Curtis Marez, in the Special Issue, Volume 61 Number 3, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions, as an “excellent managing editor” who was “indispensable to the issue.”
More info and table of contents: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/toc/aq.61.3.html
Jeb Middlebrook received recognition as managing editor of the June issue of American Quarterly, Volume 61 Number 3.
More info and table of contents: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/toc/aq.61.2.html
Photo by Eric Johnson
Character counts for Austin’s Middlebrook
“Ellis Middle School tied up its Character Counts kick-off week with an all-school assembly Friday. The presentation was led by Austin’s own Jeb Middlebrook, national lecturer, poet, veteran reality-show-rapper and current Ph.D. candidate…”
Read more: http://www.austindailyherald.com/news/2009/oct/24/character-counts-austins-middlebrook/
Mon, Sept 28, 2009 @ 7PM
22nd Annual Peace Studies Conference
Jeb Middlebrook, Keynote:
“Solidarity Spirit: Living Racial Justice in the Age of Obama”
St. John’s University
P.O. Box 2000
Collegeville, Minnesota 56321
Ph: 320-363-2011
Free and open to the public
More info: http://www.csbsju.edu/peacestudies/conferences/.htm
