Reynolds Hall 204
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Modern Africa, British imperialism, world history, race and ethnicity.
His most recent work, A Rope of Many Fibers: The Making of Transnational Co-operative Citizenship in Ghana, is a social history of the co-operative movement in Ghana from the 1920s to the 1960s. This research provides a window into the tangible practices and ideological visions of hundreds-of-thousands of Ghanaians, from rural cocoa farmers to urban executives, as they worked to align themselves with the utopian values of the larger, transnational co-operative movement taking place across the British empire at the time. Overall, Dr. Minor argues that studying this topic offers valuable insight on the roles played by transnational social movements, consumer politics, commodity exchange, propaganda, group identity, and competing ideas of citizenship, in Ghana's transition from a British colony to an independent nation over the first half of the twentieth century.
Dr. Minor also teaches writing composition and the occasional African Literature course here at Westmont.
Dr. Minor grew up in Southern California and received his PhD in history from UCSB. He specializes in twentieth-century African history with an emphasis on the Ghanaian cocoa industry and its transnational networks of exchange. As a social and cultural historian, his teaching and research highlights the experiences and expectations of ordinary people in the past as they navigated the successes, challenges, and failures of their everyday lives.