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Douglas Henry Daniels

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Douglas Henry Daniels is an American historian of African American social and cultural history, Black communities in the American West, and the early history of jazz and blues. He is professor emeritus of Black Studies and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His first book, Pioneer Urbanites (1980), argued that Black San Franciscans formed a dispersed and cosmopolitan community long before the ghettos of the mid-twentieth century.

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