J J BoskinJ. J. Boskin is an emeritus professor of American Social & Ethnic History at Boston University. Overall, his focus has been on the origins of slavery, racial stigmatizing, urban revolts, people's humor and tipping points in history.
His works inclde Seasons of Rebellion: Protest and Radicalism in Recent America (Co-author & Editor, 1972); Urban Racial Violence in the Twentieth Century (Author & Editor, 1969, 1976); Into Slavery: Racial Decisions in the Virginia Colony (1977); Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester (1986); Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture (1997); The Humor Prism in Twentieth Century America (Author & Editor, 1997). His most recent book is Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical Journey (2011), a narrative of his U.S. Army role as the Historian of a top secret, scientific expeditionary outfit posted in northern Greenland during the Korean War.

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