Danielle Wiggins

Danielle Wiggins, assistant professor of history at Georgetown and author of Black Excellence, explores how Atlanta shaped modern Black liberalism. She traces the rise of disciplinary strategies like community policing, corporate-funded family programs, and public-private development. The conversation focuses on Atlanta’s role, intraracial inequality, and how Black uplift efforts intersected with neoliberal politics.

Danielle Wiggins, assistant history professor at Georgetown and author of Black Excellence, explores Atlanta’s role in shaping modern Black liberalism. She traces 'Black excellence' as a disciplinary ethic, examines policing, corporate family programs, and Black entrepreneurship, and considers grassroots pushback and how city politics fed national New Democrat ideas.