Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Sociology
Howard University
1992

Master of Science (M.S.)

Engineering Management
George Washington University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Interdisciplinary Physics and Electrical Engineering
Florida State University

Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Children’s Health Protection 2017-2020

Black Toledo

Black Toledo: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Toledo, Ohio

The African American experience since the 19th century has included the resettlement of people from slavery to freedom, agriculture to industry, South to North, and rural to urban centers. This book is a documentary history of this process over more than 200 years in Toledo, Ohio. There are four sections: the origin of the Black community, 1787 to 1900; the formation of community life, 1900 to 1950; community development and struggle, 1950 to 2000; and survival during deindustrialization, 2000 to 2016. The volume includes articles from the Toledo Blade and local Black press, excerpts of doctoral and masters theses, and other specialist and popular writings from and about Toledo itself.

Greening Africana Studies

Greening Africana Studies: Linking Environmental Studies with Transforming Black Experiences

Insufficient attention has been given to the environment in Africana studies within the academy. In Greening Africana Studies, Rubin Patterson initiates an important conversation explaining why and how the gap between these two disciplines can and should be bridged. His comprehensive book calls for a green African transnationalism and focuses on the mission and major paradigms that identify the respective curriculum, research interests, and practices.

African Brain Circulation

African Brain Circulation: Beyond the Drain-Gain Debate

In this book, discussions on African brain circulation and transnational society provide new insights and point to fertile research and policy agendas.

Transnational Capitalist Class

Transnational Capitalist Class: What’s Race Got To Do With It?—Everything!

This article examines the use of race by the transnational capitalist class (TCC) to get globalizing politicians in office to execute the powers of the state to help shift from national obligations to labor to global obligations to capital. When it comes to controlling the White House and the Senate, there is no region of the country more important to the TCC than the US South, and this region, more than others, turns on the fulcrum of race. This article also examines the political impact of the South moving beyond a narrow black-white binary to a broad diversely racialized society for the TCC.

A Great Dilemma Generates Another Great Transformation

A Great Dilemma Generates Another Great Transformation: Capitalism and Sustainable Environments

This article makes a couple of explorations in the relationship between the environment and capitalism. The first exploration culminates into yet another set of conclusions that reinforce a body of evidence showing that a livable environment and capitalism as we know it cannot coexist in the future. The second exploration investigates a different set of questions regarding the heretofore hostility between such progressives as radical labor and deep ecologists. The article concludes with movement towards a rapprochement between the two in terms of not only a blue-green alliance (i.e., blue collar labor and environmentalists), but also a red-green alliance.