Kevin Yuill

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Name:

Kevin Yuill

Email address:

kevin.yuill@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries (7MHU)

Organisation:

University of Sunderland

Address:

321a Reg Vardy Centre St Peter's Way SR7 0DD

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Homepage URL:

http://kevinyuill.wordpress.com

Biography

Expertise:

Assisted Suicide: A Liberal Humanist Case Against Legalization (Palgrave, 2013), “Another Take on the Nixon Presidency: Richard Nixon, Drugs, Affirmative Action and the Silent Majority,” Journal of Policy History (Spring 2009), "'Better Die fighting Against Injustice than to Die like a Dog': African-Americans and Guns, 1866-1941, in Kare Jones, Giacomo Macola and David Welck, eds., A Cultural History of firearms in the Age of Empire (Ashgate, 2013) pp211-232, “Creating an American Music: A Critical View of the Origins of Country: Part 1,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (Vol. 8, No. 4, 2008) http://reconstruction.eserver.org/084/yuill.shtml, “Creating an American Music: Fakery and ‘Strictly American’ Music,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2008), "In the Shadow of the 1924 Immigration Act: FDR, Immigration and Race", Special issue: Immigration and the Federal Government, Kevin Yuill, ed., Immigrants and Minorities, Vol.32, Issue 3, 2014, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution (Routledge, 2017)

Job title:

Associate Professor of American History

Biography:

Kevin Yuill researches and teaches American history and contemporary issues in American society. His interests include the 1970s, the Roosevelt, Johnston and Nixon presidencies, American liberalism, the intellectual history of race, the civil rights movement, gun controls, the United States in the 1970s, and the history of affirmative action. He has published three books, including two monographs, as well as numerous journal articles. He has published articles in the Telegraph, Independent, New York Times, the Spectator, amongst other places. To get away from all that, he sings second tenor in the Durham Choral Society and maintains an interest in classical music. http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/research/researchstaff/facultyofeducationsociety/culture/drkevinyuill/

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) in American History by Independent Study (UEL), MPhil in American History (Cambridge), PhD in American Studies (Nottingham)

My Latest

Yuill, Kevin and Boer, Theo (2021) Een liberate, humanistische kritiek op een 'voltooid leven'-wet (A liberal, humanist critique of a 'completed life' law). Filosofie & Praktijk, 42 (4). pp. 7-16. ISSN 0167-2444
Yuill, Kevin and Boer, Theo (2021) Assisted dying and Covid-19. In: Death, Grief and Loss in the Context of COVID-19. Routledge. ISBN 9780367647322
Yuill, Kevin (2021) “America must remain American”: The Liberal Contribution to Race Restrictions in the 1924 Immigration Act. Federal History.
Yuill, Kevin and Street, Joe (2017) The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution. Controversies in American Constitutional Law . Routledge, Abingdon, OX. ISBN 9781138706286
Yuill, Kevin (2017) From Virtuous Armed Citizen to "Cramped Little Risk-Fearing Man": The Meaning of Firearms in an Insecure Era. In: The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. ISBN 9780367887476

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Assisted Suicide: the Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization	374	0
2	The Unfreedom of Assisted Suicide: How the right to die undermines autonomy	343	7
3	Controlling guns, controlling blacks: Those demanding gun control post-Charleston need a history lesson. [Online article]	320	199
4	The narcissism of assisted suicide: A shocking case shows that assisted suicide is about more than alleviating suffering. [Online article]	297	130
5	Book Review: David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín . Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014.	295	97
6	The case of Tom Mortier shows how euthanasia advocates will never stop at the terminally ill [Press article]	290	177
7	From his warm, tear-stained hands...Obama’s plan to Do Something about guns threatens ordinary Americans. [Online article]	271	112
8	The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution	270	102
9	From Virtuous Armed Citizen to "Cramped Little Risk-Fearing Man": The Meaning of Firearms in an Insecure Era	263	202
10	The spectre of Japan: the influence of foreign relations on race relations theory, 1905–24	246	189

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