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Clement Price is a professor of history; an affiliate member, and a former chair, of the African American Studies Department; and the director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. He is a specialist on African American history and culture from the colonial period to the near present; New Jersey African American history and race relations, and the presentation in public venues of historical narratives informed by the black experience. In addition to his undergraduate and graduate courses that explore these areas, Professor Price is also deeply involved in public scholarship that explores historical memory in black communities, promotes the reinterpretation of American historical sites through multi-cultural and African American narratives, and engages public discourse on matters historical and cultural.
He is the author of two books, Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey and Many Voices, Many Opportunities: Cultural Pluralism and American Arts Policy. He has also written several articles that examine African American life and race relations in 20th century Newark; African American cultural identity and artistic production during the Negro Era; black choral singing and musicianship in 20th century New Jersey. Additionally, he has two edited volumes on the first generation of free blacks in New Jersey.
Currently, Professor Price is writing the introduction to a forthcoming encyclopedia on the Harlem Renaissance and continuing work on a book on 20th century African American community life and culture in Newark, New Jersey. He is also the historical consultant to a forthcoming documentary film on the Bordentown School of Colored Youth and the Civil Rights Garden, which will open in the fall of 2001 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He is also involved in the community on several fronts, most notably as the president of the Fund for New Jersey, member of the Board of Trustees of the Newark Library, and member of the Save Ellis Island, Inc. Board of Trustees.
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