Daryl Michael Scott

Hello,

I'm busy nowadays working on a study of white nationalism in the American South.  After years of administration, I feel like a graduate student all over again--minus the infantilization and plus a decent salary!

If anyone who stumbles onto this site has an opinion about when blacks in America became citizens, please feel free to share your considered opinion via email.  (Please, do not mention that the American constitution considered blacks as three-fifths of a person; that clause only dealt with the question of determining a state's representation in Congress, not citizenship.)  Many of my fellow academics hold that free blacks were always citizens.  On the other hand, some others are of the view that it was not until the Civil Rights era that blacks became citizens.  At this moment, I'm not so certain, so I'm all ears.

About Daryl Michael Scott

As a historian, I specialize in America since the Civil War.  In particular, I study African Americans, Southerners (whites in the American South), race relations, and intellectual history. 

I work at Howard University, where I am Professor of History.

Since 2003, I have devoted a good deal of my time to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the oldest society in the world dedicated to the study of people of African descent.  I am the Vice President for Programs for ASALH - www.asalh.org.