Thomas C. Holt

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Thomas C. Holt, Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. Has produced a number of works on the people and descendents of the African Diaspora.

Notably, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1992; which won the Elsa Goveia Prize awarded by the Association of Caribbean Historians.Holt was awarded the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize for his first book, Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction, published by the University of Illinois Press. Holt's Nathan I. Huggins Lectures, were published by Harvard University Press in 2000 as The Problem of Race in the 21st Century.Among his other works he co-wrote Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies, with Rebecca J. Scott and Frederick Cooper, A past president of the the American Historical Association Holt became a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow in 1990, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.