Arthur Banton
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2016
M.A., The City College of New York (CUNY), 2008
M.F.A., The City College of New York (CUNY), 2004
B.A., Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY)
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(409) 880-1731
abanton@lamar.edu
Arthur Banton is a twentieth-century interdisciplinary historian whose interests and specializations reside in African-American history, sports history, American cinema, and popular culture. His publications include "When Clinton Was King," for the Gotham Center for New York City History and "Basketball, Books, and Brotherhood: DeWitt Clinton High School as a Scholastic Model of Postwar Racial Progression and African American Leadership" in the Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation. His essay, "When Doves Cry: A Soundtrack to the Complexity of Black Urban Post-Industrial and the Minneapolis Sound," appears in the anthology Erotic City and Beyond: Prince, Place, and the Making of an Icon (University Press of Mississippi, 2026). His current monograph, The City College of New York (CCNY) and the Promise of Interracial Cooperation Through Championship Basketball, is under contract with SUNY Press. Dr. Banton held a short-term fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City in 2021. With a background in filmmaking, he served as a research assistant for the PBS documentary Citizen King (2004), which examined the last five years of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, life after his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. Dr. Banton teaches U.S. history surveys and upper-level courses in African-American history and popular culture. His personal website may be found at .