Halsell initially believed the conceits of U.S. “internal colonies” (she chemically darkened her skin and lived as a black woman in Harlem and Mississippi, resulting in her book, Soul Sister she published Bessie Yellowhair about living as a Navajo and working as a housekeeper in a California suburb and The Illegals, a book about passing as an undocumented worker from Mexico). Johnson, and engaged in investigations into U.S. My talk focuses on the life and writing of Texas-born journalist Grace Halsell, who spent part of the Cold War as a foreign correspondent in Europe, Latin America, Asia (including a stint in Vietnam), working as a staff writer under President Lyndon B. His most recent book is Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012). He is a coauthor of Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (2001) and a coeditor of Black, Brown, and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (2009), recipient of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (2005). His books include the prizewinning Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009) Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (1990) Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (1994) Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997), which was selected one of the top ten books of the year by the Village Voice and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002). Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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