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Jacqueline Jones

Biography

Jacqueline Jones

Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and the past president of the American Historical Association. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for LABOR OF LOVE, LABOR OF SORROW and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Jacqueline Jones

Books by Jacqueline Jones

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
by Jacqueline Jones - History, Nonfiction

Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In NO RIGHT TO AN HONEST LIVING, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans refused to secure equal employment opportunity for Black Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds, some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and forged their own career paths.

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
by Jacqueline Jones - History, Nonfiction

In A DREADFUL DECEIT, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of six African Americans to illustrate the strange history of “race” in America. In truth, Jones shows, race does not exist, and the very factors that we think of as determining it --- a person’s heritage or skin color --- are mere pretexts for the brutalization of powerless people by the powerful. These stories expose the fluid, contingent and contradictory idea of race, and the disastrous effects it has had, both in the past and in our own supposedly post-racial society.