Graham Russell Gao Hodges Explained

Graham Russell Gao Hodges was born to Reverend Graham Rushing Hodges (1915–2004) and Elsie Russell (1916–2000). His siblings include Janet, Mary and Judy.^{[1] [2] [3]} Hodges is the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University and in 2006–07 was a Distinguished Fulbright Professor of History at Beijing University.^[4] He received a BA in 1973 and an MA in 1974 from City College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. in early American history from New York University in 1982. Hodges, who once worked as a cab driver in New York City, has published works such as TAXI! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Selected publications

• Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004)^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}
• Ed., Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
• Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
• Slavery, Freedom, and Culture (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
• Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey (Madison House, 1997)
• The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996)
• "Pretends to be Free": Fugitive Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (Garland Publishing Company, 1994)
• Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White (Madison House Publishers, 1993)
• The New York City Cartmen, 1650-1860 (New York University Press, 1986)
• Series ed., Studies in African American History and Culture, 106 vols. to date (Garland Publishing Company)
• Ed., Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
• David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture; 2010)^{[12] [13] [14]}

More than 100 short reviews and 13 review essays in Reviews in American History, Journal of Urban History, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Slavery and Abolition.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hodges, Graham Russell Gao. Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863. 2005-10-12. Univ of North Carolina Press. 978-0-8078-7601-5. en.
2. Web site: Hodges (Rev. Graham R.) Papers, ca. 1920.; 1952-2003. lib.usm.edu. 2019-07-15.
3. Book: Hodges, Graham Russell. New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850. September 2012. NYU Press. 978-0-8147-2461-3. en.
4. Web site: Faculty profile . 2011-08-27 . https://archive.today/20120728171310/http://www.colgate.edu/academics/FacultyDirectory/Ghodges.html . 2012-07-28 . dead .
5. Web site: Curb Job (Published 2007) . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230531052513/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Hamill-t.html . 2023-05-31 . live .
6. Web site: Hailing the History of New York's Yellow Cabs. NPR.org. en. 2019-07-15.
7. Hood . Clifton . Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. : 978–0–801–88554–9. . Business History Review . 2008 . 82 . 2 . 401–403 . 10.1017/S0007680500062978 . 40539010 .
8. Corliss . Richard . Anna May Wong Did It Right . Time . 29 January 2005 .
9. News: Gottlieb . Robert . Orientally Yours . New York Review of Books . 13 January 2005 .
10. News: Camhi . Leslie . FILM; A Dragon Lady and a Quiet Cultural Warrior . The New York Times . 11 January 2004 .
11. . Wang . Yiman . Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend . Labour . 60 . Fall 2007 . 311–313 .
12. News: Book Excerpt of 'David Ruggles' by Graham Hodges . Wall Street Journal . 25 March 2010 .
13. Web site: Winch on Hodges, 'David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City' H-SHEAR H-Net. networks.h-net.org. 2019-07-15.
14. Web site: Interview: Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Alyssa. 2010-10-27. UNC Press Blog. en-US. 2019-07-15.