Claude Clegg
Claude Clegg is a historian who specializes in the history of the African diaspora in the Americas. He is currently the Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor at the University of [North Carolina at Chapel Hill], with a joint appointment in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.
Education
Clegg holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD from the University of Michigan.Works
Clegg has written several books, including The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South, and The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia.Selected bibliography
- The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021,
- An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. Reprinted by the University of North Carolina Press, 2014,.
- The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004,.
- Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010,.