Angela D. Dillard is an American scholar and author. She wrote ''Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit religion and political radicalism in Detroit from the 1930s to the 1960s''. She also wrote ''Guess who's coming to dinner now?'', a critical study of conservative political thought among

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, Latinos, women and homosexuals. She is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts and was an associate professor of history and politics at

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's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She was writing a political biography of

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. According to her profile at the

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she is writing ''Civil Rights Conservatism'' about connections and cooperation between the post-WWII

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and the rise of the " New Right". She has published work in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Dissent'', and the '' Chronicle of Higher Education'' and has appeared as a guest on television and radio programs. Dillard has a PhD in American Culture from the

, an MA from the University of Michigan in American Culture, an MA from the

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in Political Theory, and a BA she earned from James Madison College and

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in Justice, Morality, Constitutional Democracy. As well as being an Associate Dean, she is the Earl Lewis Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies. Her work specializes in American and African-American

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including issues of race, religion, and politics.

Guess who's coming to dinner

Scott L. Malcomson reviewed ''Guess who's coming to dinner?'' for ''

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'' and described it as timely after the election of

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as U.S. president and his efforts to maintain a diverse cabinet and staff of Conservatives.

Bibliography

*''Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit'', U of Michigan Press, 2007 *''Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America'' (NYU, 2001) *"Adventures in conservative feminism", ''

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'', March 2005, Volume 42, Issue 3, pp 25–27,

References

External links

List of her publications
with descriptions and a couple reviews on the University of Michigan website {{DEFAULTSORT:Dillard, Angela American non-fiction writers University of Michigan alumni New York University faculty Michigan State University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)