Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His first book, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. His second book, All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s (Hill and Wang, 2012), is about gender, sexuality, and political culture in the U.S. from 1964 to 2004. He teaches courses on the postwar United States; the history of political movements; the history of gender, sex, and the family; and urban history.