Danielle Wiggins

Wiggins is the author of Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism. In it, she reinterprets post-1960s black politics by situating black liberals' seemingly conservative, often punitive policies within a longer black liberal tradition. Emerging in response to the violence of white supremacy, black liberalism contained an enduring disciplinary impulse in which liberal leaders aimed to excise black pathology and cultivate instead black excellence.