Christopher James Bonner

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Christopher James Bonner is an American academic who specializes in the African diaspora and race studies, and the author of Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship (2020). He teaches at the University of Maryland, in the history department.

Biography

Bonner, from Chesapeake, Virginia, got a B.A. from Howard University and a PhD from Yale University. He teaches at the University of Maryland, in the history department. [1]

Bonner is the author of the monograph Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship, published in 2020 by the U of Pennsylvania P. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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References

  1. "Christopher James Bonner". University of Maryland . Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  2. Diemer, Andrew (2022). "Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship by Christopher James Bonner (review)". Journal of the Early Republic . 42 (2): 291–294. doi:10.1353/jer.2022.0033.
  3. Montalvo, Maria R. (2021). "Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship by Christopher James Bonner (review)". The Journal of the Civil War Era . 11 (2): 278–280. doi:10.1353/cwe.2021.0037.
  4. Moreno, Paul (2021). "Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship by Christopher James Bonner". Journal of American History . 108 (3): 596–597. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaab265.
  5. Cools, Amy. "Remaking the republic: black politics and the creation of American citizenship by Christopher James Bonner". Intellectual History Review . doi:10.1080/17496977.2022.2047328.