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- Presentation
- In the Words of Black Westerners: Memories and Memoirs of African Americans in the American West.
- About James Leiker
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A native of Hays, Kansas, James Leiker, Ph.D (History), taught at the University of Kansas.
He now teaches courses on race and ethnicity at St. Cloud State
University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He has also taught western civilization
study abroad programs in Europe. He has a book coming out titled, "Racial
Borders: Black Soldiers, Race and Nationalism along the Rio Grande" from Texas
A & M University Press. His research interests have focused mostly on African
Americans and race in the American West, with special emphasis on Blacks in
Kansas. He have also published in Kansas History, Great Plains Quarterly, and
the Western Historical Quarterly. His research on Micheaux and other black
western writers is part of a larger work in progress concerning African Americans'
autobiographies in western settlement.
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