Brief
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Laurence Glasco
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15260
412/648-7486(w);
412/687-6943(h)
LAG1@pitt.edu (email)
Born 1940, Xenia,
Ohio. B.A., 1962 from Antioch College; Ph.D.
in 1973 from the State University of N.Y. at Buffalo. Taught at the University of Pittsburgh since 1969, where I am
Associate Professor of History and Director, Program for the Study of Race and
Ethnicity in World Perspective.
My principal research
interests are race and ethnicity. My MA thesis was a study of the racial
philosophy of José Vasconcelos, a Mexican philosopher of the twentieth century
who wrote optimistically of racial mixture and the creation of a "Cosmic
Race." My dissertation was a study
of ethnic social structure and ethnic relations among Irish, Germans and
native-born whites in Buffalo, New York in the mid-19th century. More recently I have been writing a history
of African Americans in Pittsburgh, and comparative studies of race relations
and the history of blacks in Cuba and the United States.
Principal publications
on blacks in Pittsburgh include:
"Double Burden:
History of Blacks in Pittsburgh, PA.," in S.P. Hays, ed., City at the
Point (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1989)
Legacy in Bricks and
Mortar: African-American Landmarks in Allegheny County (with Frank Bolden and
Eliza Smith), Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1995.
"Rise of Blacks as
a Political Power"; "Educational, Social, and Cultural Institutions
and Achievements"; "The Church"; in African American Historic
Sites Survey of Allegheny County, with Eliza Brown, et al., (Harrisburg:
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1994)
“Taking Care of
Business: The Black Entrepreneurial Elite in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh
History (Winter 1995/96): 177-182.
“Optimism, Dilemmas, and Progress: The Pittsburgh Survey and Black
Americans,” in M. Greenwald and M. Anderson, eds., Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early
Twentieth Century, (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), pp.
205-220
"Carlos F.
Peterson's Once Upon a Hill", Heart Quarterly (Fall 1997), pp. 14-17.
“High Culture in Black
Pittsburgh: Historical Perspectives,” submitted for publication.
Edited version of 1940
WPA typescript, "The Negro in Pittsburgh," to be published by the
University of Pittsburgh Press
Investigations of race
relations in Cuba include:
"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 (Freiburg, Germany: Rombach, 1992), vol. 1, pp. 470-484.
"From Assimilation
to Integration: The Narrow Spectrum of Afro-Cuban Ideology: Juan Gualberto
Gómez, Evaristo Estenoz and Juan René Betancourt," in Diaspora vol.
V (1996): 97-117
(with Alejandro de la
Fuente) "Are Blacks 'Getting Out of Control'? Racial Attitudes, Revolution and Transition in Cuba," in
Miguel Centeno and Mauricio Font (eds.), Toward
a New Cuba? Legacies of a Revolution (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1997), pp.
53-71
“Race in Three Cuban
cities: Havana, Sanata Clara and Santiago de Cuba,” America Negra (December, 1998), p. 67-71.
Other studies on race
and ethnicity include:
“Urban Slavery in World
Perspective,” for A Historical Guide to
World Slavery, ed. Seymour Drescher
and Stanley Engerman, (NY: Oxford University Press, 1998)
“Brazil and Race:
Lessons from Bahia,” Journal of Afro-Latin American Studies and Literatures
II (Spring 1994): 11-22.
“Race, Caste and
Untouchability: Lessons from India,” Sanskriti
(August 25, 1993)
"The Life Cycles
and Household Structures of American Ethnic Groups," Journal of Urban
History, 1 (May, 1975). Reprinted
in T. Hareven, ed., Family and Kin in Urban Communities (1976), and N.
Cott and E. Pleck, eds., A Heritage of Her Own. (1979).
"Ethnicity and
Occupation in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," in R. Ehrlich, ed., Immigrants
in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (University of Virginia Press, 1977).