Background
Graham Russell Gao Hodges was born on November 29, 1946, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is a son of Reverend Graham Rushing Hodges, a minister, and Elsie Russell Hodges, a teacher.
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, United States
In 1973, Graham received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. The following year, in 1974, he attained a Master of Arts degree from the same educational establishment.
New York University, New York City, NY 10003, United States
In 1982, Hodges graduated from New York University with a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
(This unique social history, focusing on a single communit...)
This unique social history, focusing on a single community in eastern New Jersey, addresses many long-held assumptions about slavery and emancipation outside the plantation South.
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Freedom-Rural-North-Americans/dp/0945612516
1997
(Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth centur...)
Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics, as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement and interracial marriage before the Civil War. This book provides fascinating reading for students of American history, labor history, urban history and black history.
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Freedom-Among-American-Workers/dp/0765601125
1998
(In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a compreh...)
In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African-Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African, a sailor, marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613, to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863.
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Branch-African-Americans-1613-1863/dp/080784778X
1999
(Anna May Wong was one of Hollywood's most well-known Chin...)
Anna May Wong was one of Hollywood's most well-known Chinese American actresses. Between 1919 and 1960, she starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Marlene Dietrich and Werner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant's difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. In a narrative, that recalls both the pathos of life in Los Angeles's Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood's pleasure palaces, Graham Hodges recounts the life of a Hollywood legend.
https://www.amazon.com/Anna-May-Wong-Laundrymans-Hollywood/dp/0312293194/?tag=2022091-20
2004
("Taxi!" is the first book-length history of New York City...)
"Taxi!" is the first book-length history of New York City cabdrivers and the community they compose. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, this deftly woven narrative captures the people — lower-class immigrants for the most part — and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. Hodges tells the tale through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, social science research and the words of the cabbies themselves.
https://www.amazon.com/Taxi-Social-History-York-Cabdriver-dp-080188554X/dp/080188554X/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic and ...)
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic and one of the most often overlooked figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher and hydrotherapist, who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass.
https://www.amazon.com/David-Ruggles-Abolitionist-Underground-Railroad-ebook/dp/B003AU4HCO
2010
("Black New Jersey" tells the rich and complex story of th...)
"Black New Jersey" tells the rich and complex story of the African-American community's remarkable accomplishments and the colossal obstacles they faced along the way.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-New-Jersey-1664-Present/dp/0813595185
2018
Graham Russell Gao Hodges was born on November 29, 1946, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is a son of Reverend Graham Rushing Hodges, a minister, and Elsie Russell Hodges, a teacher.
In 1973, Graham received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. The following year, in 1974, he attained a Master of Arts degree from the same educational establishment. Some time later, in 1982, Hodges graduated from New York University with a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
In 1986, Graham was appointed a Professor of History at Colgate University in Hamilton. In 1998, he acted as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in China. Between 2006 and 2007, he held a post of a Distinguished Fulbright Professor of History at Peking University. In 2008, 2010 and 2011, Hodges held a post of director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Teachers Institute.
Speaking about Hodges' writing career, he has penned many books, which include "Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865" (1997), "Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863" (1999), "Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend" (2004), "Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver" (2007), "Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day" (2018), among others. Moreover, Graham has published more than 100 short reviews and 13 review essays in various journals, including Reviews in American History, Journal of Urban History, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Slavery and Abolition, etc.
During his career, Graham also served as a cab driver in New York City.
Currently, Graham holds a post of the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University.
(Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth centur...)
1998(In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a compreh...)
1999(This unique social history, focusing on a single communit...)
1997("Black New Jersey" tells the rich and complex story of th...)
2018(David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic and ...)
2010("Taxi!" is the first book-length history of New York City...)
2007(Anna May Wong was one of Hollywood's most well-known Chin...)
2004Quotations: "I write because I love to recreate the lives of forgotten, but important people. I also wish to cover the meaning of working people in New York City from the beginnings of the city to the present. Writing, for me, enlarges my knowledge and understanding of the world, in ways I often do not suspect, when I begin a project."
Graham is a member of the Organization of American Historians and American Historical Association.
Graham married Margaret (Washington) Hodges, a professor, in 1988.