KCC Professor Awarded $60,000 NEH Grant
Kingsborough Community College history professor Elke Sabella
KCC Professor Awarded $60,000 NEH Grant for Book on Children of the KKK
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Kingsborough Community College history professor Elke Sabella $60,000 to write "Children of the Klan: Growing Up in the Southern Far Right 1950-1990," a book based on oral histories she gathered over a two-year period. It is one of 240 humanities projects across the country receiving a total of $37.5 million in grants, as well as one of the 25 projects in the 2024 Public Scholars category, which totals $1.4 million.
The NEH Public Scholars program offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public.
“Children of the Klan: Growing Up in the Southern Far Right 1950-1990” examines the segregationist movement's values and ideology through the eyes of the children who came up, in different ways, through the movement.
The book is an outgrowth of an oral history project about white supremacist families in the Southern United States, conducted between 2021 and 2023 under the auspices of a Mellon/ACLS fellowship that documented the experiences of 22 men and women born between 1939 and 1977 whose parents were members of or sympathizers with the Ku Klux Klan and/or the Citizens' Council during and after Jim Crow. Aimed at general audiences, not just those who identify as anti-racist, the book will offer readers unique access to stories that are rarely heard outside of closed circles.
“My goal is to spark new and needed conversations about the historical and cultural roots, transmission, and present complexion of racist ideologies and cultures in the United States,” offered Sabella, who also serves as the director of the KCC Holocaust Center. “It is meant to assist people in their journeys away from racism while also fostering understanding for those who aren’t there yet.”
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