Faculty

Zebulon Miletsky, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Office: ASH 184K Phone: 402.554.2018 zmiletsky@mail.unomaha.edu Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst B.A. Boston College

Bio

Zebulon Miletsky received his Ph.D. in African American Studies with a concentration in African American History from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Miletsky recently completed his dissertation entitled “City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930”. Documenting the high number of blacks and whites who married in Boston during these years in the face of virulent anti-miscegenation forces and the context of the intense political fight to keep interracial marriage legal, the dissertation explores the black response to this assault on the dignity and lives of African Americans. At the same time it documents the dilemma that the issue of intermarriage represented for black Bostonians and their leaders. A scholar-activist specializing in Urban History, History of Boston, Mixed Race and Biracial Identity, and History of Miscegenation/Interracial Marriage, he has published book reviews in The Journal of African American History and The New England Quarterly.

Research Interests

Urban History
History of Boston
Mixed Race and Biracial Identity
History of Miscegenation/Interracial Marriage

Publications

Miletsky, Zebulon V. Review of Black-Brown: Relations and Stereotypes by Tatcho Mindiola, Jr. Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Nestor Rodriquez (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002) for The Journal of African American History (JAAH). Fall 2004.

Miletsky, Zebulon V. Review of Race Men by Hazel Carby (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) for The New England Quarterly. March 1999. 158-159.

Teaching

Introduction to Black Studies
African American History to 1865
African American History Since 1865
African American History Since 1954