Tag: Frederick Douglass Opie

January 30, 2015

The Fate of Black and Latino Politicians in New York City — Frederick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie on the history and future of Black and Latino politicians in New York City.

January 29, 2015

The Role of Black and Latino Students in the 1968 Takeover of Columbia University — Frederick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie on how Black and Latino students and student organizations worked with the Harlem community during the 1968 protests at Columbia.

January 28, 2015

Interview with Frederick Douglass Opie, author of "Upsetting the Apple Cart"

Read an interview with Frederick Douglass Opie about the history of Black-Latino relations in New York City.

January 27, 2015

Food, Unions, and Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City — Frederick Douglass Opie

One of the earliest coalitions among Blacks and Latinos in New York City was among hospital workers at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx. In the following excerpt from Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest...

November 19, 2012

A Soul Food Thanksgiving

As the recent and wildly successful university press week reminded us, university presses provide readers with a wide range of new ideas and intellectual perspectives. However, as a university press with a list in food studies, Columbia University Press also...

July 23, 2012

Frederick Douglass Opie on Sylvia Woods and Sylvia's in a Changing Harlem

On the occasion of Sylvia Woods’s death last week, Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, looked back on her life and the important role her restaurant Sylvia’s played in the life of...