Education
- Ph.D. from University of Arkansas (1989)
Research Interests
African-American History and American Car Culture.
Recent Research Activities
Fon L. Gordon is working on the intersection of race and the automobile in Florida and the New South.
Publications
Books
- Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Articles/Essays
- "Early Motoring in Florida: Making Car Culture and Race in the New South, 1903-1943," The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 95, No. 4 (Spring 2017), 517-537.
- Fon Louise Gordon, "The Emergence of Black Women's History," Journal of Women's History 1995 7(3): 127-136