Media
Interview regarding police brutality, protests, and US activist histories on "Africa 54"
Voice of America, June 9, 2020Television
Voice of America International, June 8, 2020Radio/Podcast
URL: https://www.voanews.com/episode/cities-begin-reimagining-policing-4300676
Interview begins at 9:25.
The unofficial celebration of Juneteenth in Canada
Kitchener Today, June 19, 2021Online
URL: https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/the-unofficial-celebration-of-juneteenth-in-canada-3890372
"Bogus science in racist flyers a 'classic' white supremacist tactic, profs say."
CBC Kitchener-Waterloo, June 25, 2020Online
Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830–1870
by Dana Elizabeth Weiner
Northern Illinois University Press
January 15, 2013
9780875807133
In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to eradicate southern slavery and its local influence in the contentious milieu of four new states carved out of the Northwest Territory: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. While the Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the region in 1787, in reality both it and racism continued to exert strong influence in the Old Northwest, as seen in the race-based limitations of civil liberties there. Indeed, these states comprised the central battleground over race and rights in antebellum America, in a time when race's social meaning was deeply infused into all aspects of Americans' lives, and when people struggled to establish political consensus.
Antislavery and anti-prejudice activists from a range of institutional bases crossed racial lines as they battled to expand African American rights in this region. Whether they were antislavery lecturers, journalists, or African American leaders of the Black Convention Movement, women or men, they formed associations, wrote publicly to denounce their local racial climate, and gave controversial lectures. In the process, they discovered that they had to fight for their own right to advocate for others. This bracing new history by Dana Elizabeth Weiner is thus not only a history of activism, but also a history of how Old Northwest reformers understood the law and shaped new conceptions of justice and civil liberties. The newest addition to the Mellon-sponsored Early American Places Series, Race and Rights will be a much-welcomed contribution to the study of race and social activism in nineteenth-century America.
Biography
Dr. Dana Elizabeth Weiner's research explores race, activism, grassroots politics, and the historical connections among race, rights and citizenship. Weiner consults about Americans' long history of debates over rights and inclusion. Weiner has published about antislavery and antiracist activism in the present day Midwest. She examines limited rights on the basis of race in early 19th century California and the California "Black Laws." Weiner focuses on identity, race, and property among California African Americans from 1821-1870. She has written about citizenship claims and rights activism, and analyzed and re-evaluated 19th century debates between the state and California African Americans over citizenship’s meanings.