Traci Parker

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Traci Parker is an associate professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). She is currently writing Beyond Loving: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Black Freedom Movement and co-editing The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice (University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming 2022). Her work has been featured in Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line, the Journal of Women’s History, and The American Historian, as well as on C-SPAN and the History Channel. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Stanford University, Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural Studies
• Economic Inequality
• History
• Race and Ethnicity
• Gender, Marriage, and Family

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Interviews