Mary L. Dudziak

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Exporting American Dreams
Cold War Civil Rights
September 11 in History
Legal Borderlands
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Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law School.  Her research focuses on international approaches to American legal history. She has written extensively about the impact of foreign affairs on civil rights policy during the Cold War and other topics in 20th-century American legal history. Her forthcoming book is a transnational history about Thurgood Marshall’s work with Kenya nationalists in the 1960s, Exporting American Dreams:  Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (Oxford University Press, 2008)  Her next book project will look broadly at the impact of war on American law and politics during the 20th century.  This year Professor Dudziak is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 
 

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Forthcoming July 2008:

Exporting American Dreams:  Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

An intimate and dramatic new portrait of one of the most important figures in American history

 

In Exporting American Dreams, Mary L. Dudziak recounts with poignancy and power the untold story of Thurgood Marshall's work in Africa, and his friendship with Kenya independence leaders, including Tom Mboya and Jomo Kenyatta

 

Book Blog:  Exporting American Dreams

 

Cold War Civil Rights:  Race and the Image of American Democracy           

 

"Impressively researched and vividly written. . . . Convincingly demonstrates how Cold War pressures both empowered and constrained the civil rights movement's quest to build a more just America."  Rogers M. Smith author of Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History

 

"Groundbreaking."--American Lawyer

 

"Dudziak's book will inspire a reconsideration of postwar civil rights history."--Alex Lubin, American Quarterly   

 

September 11 in History                                    

 

"I am exhilarated by the collective wisdom, creativity, and insight of this unusual yet riveting distillation of perspectives on September 11."—Bruce Lawrence, author of Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence

 

Legal Borderlands:  Law and the Construction of American Borders

 

"By weaving together colorful and contentious strands of culture, history and law, these essays make a compelling argument that "it is in its bleeding borders that law itself, and with it American identity, is constructed, contested, and made meaningful." Harvard Law Review 

 

Work-in-Progress:  
How War Made America:  A Twentieth Century History (under contract with Oxford University Press)