The Future of African & African American Studies in Iowa

James H. Randall taught for more than thirty years in English and African American Studies at Coe College. His courses have included African American, African, and Caribbean literature and African American history. He has also taught African American literature courses at the University of Iowa and worked with the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. Randall grew up in rural North Carolina, where he worked in the tobacco fields and did other farm work and attended segregated schools from the first grade through college. He earned his bachelor's degree at North Carolina A&T State University and a master's in English at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is the Stead Family Professor of English Emeritus at Coe College.