Lynn M. Hudson is a specialist in African American history and has been active in women's studies and ethnic studies programs. Her publications examine the lives of free black men and women during the age of slavery, and the possibilities for freedom in the U.S. West. Her recent research investigates the legal, cultural, and social manifestations of Jim Crow discrimination in California in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hudson has been teaching at Macalester since 2005. EDUCATION:B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ph.D., Indiana University
Journal Articles
'This Is Our Fair and Our State': African Americans and the Panama Pacific International Exposition, California History (2010)
Lies, Secrets, and Silences: Writing African American Women's Biography, Journal of Women's History (2009)
Entertaining Citizenship: Masculinity and Minstrelsy in Jim Crow San Francisco, The Journal of African American History (2008)
"Strong Animal Passions" in the Gilded Age: Race, Sex, and a Senator on Trial, Journal of the History of Sexuality (2000)
Books
Contributions to Books
Mary Ellen Pleasant’s Nantucket, Nantucket’s People of Color: Essays on History, Politics and Community (2006)
Mining A Mythic Past: The History of Mary Ellen Pleasant, African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (2003)
Book Reviews
Book Review of Barbara Berglund, Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906, American Historical Review (2009)
Book Review of Psyche A. Williams-Forson, Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power, The American Historical Review (2007)