Roderick Douglas Bush (November 12, 1945 – December 5, 2013) was an U.S. born sociologist, social activist, author,
public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the
Civil rights movement (1865–1896).
Biography
Born on November 12, 1945,
Bush grew up in the "
Jim Crow
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the Sout ...
" South before moving to
Rochester, New York, as a child.
As a teen, he attended
Howard University and became involved in the
Black Power Movement.
He attended the
University of Kansas, where he began his doctoral work.
He left to become a full-time political activist only to return to academia in 1998.
He earned his Ph.D. from
Binghamton University
The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university with campuses in Binghamton, New York, Binghamton, Vestal, New York, Vestal, and Johnson City, New Yor ...
in 1992. He served as a faculty member at
St. John's University St John's University may refer to:
*St. John's University (New York City)
**St. John's University School of Law
**St. John's University (Italy) - Overseas Campus
*College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, St. Joseph, Minnesota and Col ...
as a Sociology Professor.
Bush died on December 5, 2013.
Academic specialization
At a collegiate level he taught and specialized in race and ethnicity, the black experience, social movements, world-systems studies, globalization, social inequality, social change, urban sociology, community organizing, political sociology.
Awards
* 2015: U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1, best overall faculty member, best researcher/scholar, and most helpful to students.
* 2014:
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fif ...
Marxist Section Lifetime Achievement Award
* Professor-Service to Students Seton Hall University 9/97-5/98
* University Research Fellow Seton Hall University 6/97-8/97
* Ford Foundation PostDoctoral
* Fellow Seton Hall University 9/93-8/94
* University Fellow SUNY Binghamton 1/88-6/88
*
U.S. Public Health Fellow University of Kansas 9/67-6/70
* National Competitive Scholar Howard University 9/63-6/67
* Ralph Bunche Scholarship Howard University 9/63
Books
Bush was part of a working group of authors in the book ''Race in the Age of Obama'', and a contributor to the book ''Transnational Africa and Globalization''.
He was the author of the books ''We are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century'', ''The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities'',
''The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line''.
He also co-authored with Melanie E. L. Bush ''Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality?''
In 2019 a collection of scholars, friends and students published: Rod Bush: Lessons from a Radical Black Scholar on Liberation, Love, and Justice https://www.okcir.com/product/rod-bush-lessons-from-a-radical-black-scholar-on-liberation-love-and-justice/> with essays on the lessons that can be learned from Rod's writings, teaching, mentorship and friendship.
References
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Black Power
Activists for African-American civil rights
American anti-poverty advocates
American anti-racism activists
American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
2013 deaths
1945 births
20th-century American philosophers
21st-century American philosophers
African-American Christians
African-American philosophers
Black studies scholars
Binghamton University alumni
St. John's University (New York City) faculty