Hugh Davis Graham

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Hugh Davis Graham (born September 2, 1937 in Little Rock , ( Arkansas ), † March 26, 2002 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was an American historian and sociologist.

Graham was one of three sons of a Presbyterian pastor. He studied history at Yale and graduated from Stanford University with a Ph. D. in 1964 . From 1967-71 he taught at Johns Hopkins University and was director of the Institute of Southern History . In 1968/69 he was a member of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence and co-published its report Violence in America . He taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for 20 years before receiving the McTyeire Chair of History at Vanderbilt University in 1991 and heading the department. He died of esophageal cancer at 65 .

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Graham taught and researched civil rights, post-World War II southern politics, and US social policy.

Of his three main studies, the first dealt with the positive effects of government funding for public education in the Kennedy and Johnson eras (1984), the second with the three civil rights laws and policies 1960–72 (1990), and the last with the consequences of US minority policy (2002).

In Collision Course in 2002, he concluded that correcting injustices against African Americans has led to protectionism and preferential treatment and a new flood of immigrants from Asia and Latin America to the US. He noted that many immigrants who qualified under the minority clauses of federal law are now among the highest-income Americans, and called these the "often unpredictable, unwanted effects of social legislation."

Works (selection)

  • Huey Long (Great Lives Observed) . Prentice Hall. 1970
  • with Numan V. Bartley: Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction . Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976
  • with Ted Robert Gurr: Violence In America: Historical And Comparative Perspectives . Washington: US Government Printing Office. 1969
  • The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years . University of North Carolina Press. 1984
  • The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 . Oxford University Press. 1990
  • Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America . Oxford University Press. 2003
  • with Nancy Diamond: The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era . Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ American Historical Association, In Memoriam HDG, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Graham, Hugh Davis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little Rock, Arkansas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2002
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)