Join us on Monday, April 18 at 5:00pm as Joshua Clark Davis (University of Baltimore) presents a talk from his upcoming book, From Head Shops to Whole Foods: Small Businesses and Social Movements in the 1960s and ’70s (Columbia University Press, 2017). The talk is in conference room 529 at 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City. This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on Historical Studies and the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies.
Joshua Clark Davis teaches and researches broadly in twentieth-century United States history, with a particular interest in the intersection of capitalism, social movements, counterculture and media. His forthcoming book, From Head Shops to Whole Foods: Small Businesses and Social Movements in the 1960s and ‘70s (2016, Columbia University Press, History of US Capitalism series) examines how entrepreneurs like black booksellers, natural foods retailers and feminist businesses emerged out of social movements and sought to remake American capitalism and consumer culture. Joshua is a former Fulbright scholar and has also held fellowships at the German Historical Institute and Duke University’s Thompson Writing Program. His writing has appeared in Southern Cultures, Carolina Soul and The Huffington Post.
Joshua is also a devoted public and digital historian with a deep interest in working with communities beyond universities. He has served on the board of the Museum of Durham History and on the advocacy committee of Preservation Durham in North Carolina. Joshua also co-directs “Media and the Movement,” a digital oral history initiative funded by the NEH and housed at http://MediaAndTheMovement.unc.edu. This project is interviewing fifty activists of the Civil Rights and Black Power era who worked in media and is also making dozens of hours of previously unavailable activist radio recordings from the 1970s and ‘80s available online. (Biography from University of Baltimore.)
