Clarence E. Walker

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 613 citations indexed

About

Clarence E. Walker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Clarence E. Walker has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 613 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Clarence E. Walker's work include Race, History, and American Society (20 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (7 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 papers). Clarence E. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (20 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (7 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 papers). Clarence E. Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Africa. Clarence E. Walker's co-authors include Stanley L. Engerman, Frank B. Tipton, Robert W. Fogel, David L. Lewis, Paul Harvey, Walter L. Williams, Herbert Shapiro, Amy Gutmann, Mechal Sobel and Victor B. Howard and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Journal of American History and The Journal of Southern History.

In The Last Decade

Clarence E. Walker

24 papers receiving 416 citations

Hit Papers

Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery. 1975 2026 1992 2009 1975 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery.
    1975 426 citations Frank B. Tipton, Clarence E. Walker et al. History and Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Clarence E. Walker United States 9 289 182 142 96 70 34 613
Carole Shammas United States 16 210 0.7× 361 2.0× 133 0.9× 129 1.3× 82 1.2× 48 743
Farley Grubb United States 13 172 0.6× 404 2.2× 154 1.1× 96 1.0× 58 0.8× 62 625
Thomas Dublin United States 13 381 1.3× 149 0.8× 57 0.4× 105 1.1× 37 0.5× 51 773
Gloria L. Main United States 14 129 0.4× 136 0.7× 173 1.2× 93 1.0× 30 0.4× 46 494
T. H. Breen United States 16 240 0.8× 149 0.8× 213 1.5× 206 2.1× 21 0.3× 45 700
Peter G. Earle United States 14 233 0.8× 353 1.9× 169 1.2× 153 1.6× 43 0.6× 74 902
Lawrence J. McCaffrey United States 13 501 1.7× 93 0.5× 95 0.7× 106 1.1× 59 0.8× 57 732
Peter d'A. Jones United States 8 200 0.7× 121 0.7× 36 0.3× 50 0.5× 73 1.0× 25 520
Rowland Berthoff United States 13 401 1.4× 101 0.6× 39 0.3× 128 1.3× 94 1.3× 48 649
Stanley Elkins United States 13 355 1.2× 79 0.4× 141 1.0× 250 2.6× 28 0.4× 29 770

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clarence E. Walker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Walker, Clarence E.. (2011). “We're losing our country”: Barack Obama, Race & the Tea Party. Daedalus. 140(1). 125–130. 8 indexed citations
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Phelan, Craig, Warren C. Whatley, Robert H. Zieger, et al.. (2007). LABOR HISTORY SYMPOSIUM. Labor History. 48(2). 209–247. 2 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E.. (2004). The Effects of Brown: Personal and Historical Reflections on American Racial Atavism. The Journal of Southern History. 70(2). 295–295.
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Walker, Clarence E.. (2001). We Can’t Go Home Again. 12 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E. & Herbert Shapiro. (2000). African American History and Radical Historiography: Essays in Honor of Herbert Aptheker.. The Journal of Southern History. 66(2). 412–412. 5 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E. & Paul Harvey. (1998). Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925.. Journal of American History. 84(4). 1518–1518. 19 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E., et al.. (1998). Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race.. The Journal of Southern History. 64(2). 401–401. 9 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E. & David L. Lewis. (1995). W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race.. The Journal of Southern History. 61(3). 619–619. 35 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E.. (1993). JFK in Blackface: Spike Lee's "Malcolm X.".. Multicultural education. 1(1). 16. 1 indexed citations
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Moses, Wilson Jeremiah & Clarence E. Walker. (1993). Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals.. Journal of American History. 79(4). 1569–1569. 1 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E.. (1993). You Can't Go Home Again: The Problem with Afrocentrism. Prospects. 18. 535–543.
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Walker, Clarence E. & Victor B. Howard. (1992). Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870.. The Journal of Southern History. 58(1). 144–144. 1 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E.. (1988). Lane, Roger. Roots of Violence In Black Philadelphia 1860-1900.. Urban History Review. 17(2). 132–132.
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Walker, Clarence E.. (1986). The American Negro as Historical Outsider, 1836-1935. Canadian Review of American Studies. 17(2). 137–154. 4 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E. & Walter L. Williams. (1983). Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa, 1877-1900.. The Journal of Southern History. 49(2). 313–313. 14 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E.. (1983). A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Theology Today. 40(2). 212–212. 2 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E., et al.. (1983). A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church During the Civil War and Reconstruction.. The Journal of Southern History. 49(1). 132–132. 12 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E.. (1982). Review: James City: A Black Community in North Carolina, 1863-1900, by Joe A. Mobley. The Public Historian. 4(3). 99–100. 1 indexed citations
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Walker, Clarence E., et al.. (1979). The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor after Slavery. Journal of American History. 65(4). 1130–1130. 2 indexed citations
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Tipton, Frank B., Clarence E. Walker, Robert W. Fogel, & Stanley L. Engerman. (1975). Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery.. History and Theory. 14(1). 91–91. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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