About
I have become impatient with the process of publication in the United States. Since my retirement, I have been reading and thinking about a number of topics, and I don't want to wait for the lengthly process of peer review to get them out to the public. Besides, my work has always been too academic for trade publication and too popular for academic publication. The restrictions on access created by college libraries and academic journals in the United States has placed much of academic thinking outside the public discourse. That is why I was so happy to see that one can post papers on academia.edu in a more or less rough-draft form. I plan to post draft chapters from three possible books with the following tentative titles: "Dubious Descent: The Ramapoughs, Lumbees, and Other Non-Recognized Indian Tribes"; "Ethnicity, Self-Determination, and the American Empire"; and "Embracing Our Own Diversity: Ethnicity, Race, Class, Gender,and Region in American History." This will make my ideas public, and if some day a publisher wishes to put them into book form, I certainly am willing to spend the time and effort to polish these papers.
