Victoria Wolcott
PhD
Interests
U.S., African American history; gender/sexuality; social/cultural history; urban history; the emergence of experimental interracial communities in mid-20th century America
I research and write about gender and race in twentieth century American cities.
Education
- PhD, University of Michigan, 1995
Books
- "Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement" The University of Chicago Press, 2022
- "Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America" – University of of Pennsylvania Press, 2012
- "Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit" – University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Selected Publications
- “Recreation and Race in the Postwar City: Buffalo’s 1956 Crystal Beach Riot” – Journal of American History
- “The Culture of the Informal Economy: Numbers Runners in Inter-War Black Detroit” – Radical History Review