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Laurence Glasco

Associate Professor
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (1969)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3534 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7486
lag1@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s) Race and Ethnicity
Urban History

Teaching

History of Black Pittsburgh
Race and Caste in World Perspective
Selected Publications

Legacy in Bricks and Mortar: African-American Landmarks in Allegheny County (with Frank Bolden and Eliza Smith) (Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1995)

“Race, Caste and Untouchability: Lessons from India” (Sanskriti 1993)

“National Versus Racial Identity: Juan Gualberto Gomez of Cuba and W.E.B. Du Bois of the United States,” in Wolfgang Reinhard and Peter Waldmann, Nord und Süd in Amerika (Rombach,1992)

“The Life Cycles and Household Structures of American Ethnic Groups,” Journal of Urban History (1975)

Project(s)

A History of Black Pittsburgh