Nick Bromell

Nick Bromell (born 1950) is an American author and educator in the field of intellectual history.[1] He is the professor of American studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. In his writing and research, he specializes in media and public opinion, race and ethnicity, and democracy and governance.[2] He was the founding editor of the political and literary magazine Boston Review.

Bromell's work has been published in numerous academic and literary journals, and he has also written articles for mainstream publications such as The Boston Globe, Harper's, and Salon. He is the author of the books By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum American Culture (1992), Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s (2000), and The Time is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy (2013). His book The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass is due for publication in 2021.

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