Recent Scholarship
African American
Aamidor, Abraham, “‘Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are’: The Parallel Views of Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald on the Road to Equality,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Spring–Summer 2006), 46–61.
Aiello, Thomas, “The Fading of the Greys: Black Baseball and Historical Memory in Little Rock,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 360–84.
Ali, Omar H., “Standing Guard at the Door of Liberty: Black Populism in South Carolina, 1886–1895,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (July 2006), 190–203.
Bagby, George F., “Hollis F. Price: Apprenticeship at Tuskegee Institute, 1933–1940,” Alabama Review, 60 (Jan. 2007), 29–52.
Brill, Andrew, “Brown in Fayetteville: Peaceful Southern School Desegregation in 1954,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 337–59.
Butchart, Ronald E., “Remapping Racial Boundaries: Teachers as Border Police and Boundary Transgressors in Post-Emancipation Black Education, usa, 1861–1876,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (Feb. 2007), 61–78.
Daniel, Pete, “African American Farmers and Civil Rights,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 3–38.
Edwards, Laura F., “Status without Rights: African Americans and the Tangled History of Law and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South,” American Historical Review, 112 (April 2007), 365–93.
Fikes, Robert, Jr., “African American Popular and Scholarly Interest in Central and South America, 1960 to 2005,” Western Journal of Black Studies, 29 (Summer 2005), 580–91.
Fikes, Robert, Jr., “U.S. Blacks’ Perceptions, Experiences, and Scholarship Regarding Central and South America—1822 to 1959,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 171–87.
Gomez, Michael A., “A Harvest for the People : P. Sterling Stuckey, Activist and Scholar,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 374–84.
Harris, Jennifer, “Black Like? The Strange Case of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 401–19.
Hill, Robert A., ed., “P. Sterling Stuckey: In Praise of an Intellectual Legacy,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 367–443. Special issue.
Hostetter, David, “‘An International Alliance of People of All Nations against Racism’: Nonviolence and Solidarity in the Antiapartheid Activism of the American Committee on Africa, 1952–1965,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 134–52.
Jeter, Marvin D., and Mark Cervenka, “H. J. Lewis, Free Man and Freeman Artist: The First African American Political Cartoonist,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Jones-Branch, Cherisse, “‘To Speak When and Where I Can’: African American Women’s Political Activism in South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (July 2006), 204–24.
Leahy, Stephen M., “Polish American Reaction to Civil Rights in Milwaukee, 1963–1965,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Spring 2006), 35–56.
Lindfors, Bernth, “Ira Aldridge’s Relatives in New York City,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 81–89.
Lorensen, Jutta, “Between Image and Word, Color and Time: Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 571–86.
Melamed, Jodi, “W. E. B. Du Bois’s UnAmerican End,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 533–50.
Messmer, David, “‘If Not in the Word, In the Sound’: Frederick Douglass’s Mediation of Literacy through Song,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 21 (March 2007), 5–21.
Ntloedibe, France, “A Question of Origins: The Social and Cultural Roots of African American Cultures,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 401–12.
Rocksborough-Smith, Ian, “‘Filling the Gap’: Intergenerational Black Radicalism and the Popular Front Ideals of Freedomways Magazine’s Early Years, 1961–1965,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 7–42.
Sassi, Jonathan D., “Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery,” in Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences, ed. Peter Mancall, 95–130. (Leiden: Brill, 2006. 168 pp. $98.00, isbn 978-90-04-15403-2.)
Shelton, Robert S., “On Empire’s Shore: Free and Unfree Workers in Galveston, Texas, 1840–1860,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Spring 2007), 717–30.
Spencer, Suzette, “Historical Memory, Romantic Narrative, and Sally Hemmings,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 507–31.
Strub, Whitney, “Black and White and Banned All Over: Race, Censorship, and Obscenity in Postwar Memphis,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Spring 2007), 685–715.
Stuckey, P. Sterling, “Reflections on the Scholarship of African Orgins and Influence in American Slavery,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 425–43.
Taketani, Etsuko, “The Cartography of the Black Pacific: James Weldon Johnson’s Along This Way,” American Quarterly, 59 (March 2007), 79–106.
Valone, Stephen J., “William Henry Seward, the Virginia Controversy, and the Anti-slavery Movement, 1839–1841,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 65–80.
Warren, Wendy Anne, “‘The Cause of Her Grief’: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England,” Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1031–49.
Williams-Myers, A. J., “Out of the Shadows: African Descendants-Revolutionary Combatants in the Hudson River Valley; A Preliminary Historical Sketch,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 91–111.
Wilson, Jamie J., “Individual and Organizational Responses to Health Conditions in Harlem, New York, during the Interwar Period,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 43–63.
Winter, Kari, “Bordering Freedom but Unable to Cross into the Promised Land: Africans in Early Vermont,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 32 (Fall 2006), 473–92.
Wintory, Blake J., “African-American Legislators in the Arkansas General Assembly, 1868–1893,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 385–434.
Woodrum, Robert H., “The Rebirth of the umwa and Racial Anxiety in Alabama, 1933–1942,” Alabama Review, 58 (Oct. 2005), 243–81.
Wright, Josephine, “Songs of Remembrance,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Fall 2006), 413–24.
Cabral, Linda Britton, “Letters from Four Antebellum Black Women Educators to the American Missionary Association, 1863–1870” (University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2006). Order No. DA3221373.
Chapman, John K., “Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina, 1793–1960” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219109.
Favors, Jelani Manu-Gowon, “Shelter in a Time of Storm: Black Colleges and the Rise of Student Activism in Jackson, Mississippi” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226519.
Fishman, Darwin Ben, “Shadow Politics in the Rich Light of Day: Black Youth, Political Socialization, and One Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area High School” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222333.
Friedel, Tania, “‘The Story of Americans’: Cosmopolitanism and Racial Discourse in Twentieth-Century African American Letters” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221949.
Galle, Jillian Elizabeth, “Strategic Consumption: Archaeological Evidence for Costly Signaling among Enslaved Men and Women in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3220488.
Herbison, Chauncey C., “B(l)ack to the World: Explorations of Race, Trauma Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222180.
Hilliard, Kathleen Mary, “Spending in Black and White: Race, Slavery, and Consumer Values in the Antebellum South” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224439.
King, Shannon, “Home to Harlem: Community, Gender, and Working Class Politics in Harlem, 1916–1928” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3220358.
LaCroix, David D., “Words for the Hour: Temporality and Agency in African American Literature” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222962.
Muller, Jennifer Lynn, “Trauma as a Biological Consequence of Inequality: A Biocultural Analysis of the Skeletal Remains of Washington, D.C.’s African American Poor” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3226897.
Purnell, Brian, “A Movement Grows in Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (core) and the Northern Civil Rights Movement during the Early 1960s” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221991.
Sandy-Bailey, Julia L., “The ‘Negro Market’ and the Black Freedom Movement in New York City, 1930–1965” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3216961.
Wahaltere, Sidra Smith, “Novel Identities: Black Female Self-Authorization in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century African American Fiction” (Tufts University, 2006). Order No. DA3217074.
Wheeler, Lorna Raven, “From Righteous to Roguish: Queer Desire in Black Women’s Writings, 1850–1940” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3219203.
Williams, Andreá N., “Our Kind of People: Social Status and Class Awareness in Post-Reconstruction African American Fiction” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219107.
Yagyu, Tomoko, “Slave Traders and Planters in the Expanding South: Enterpreneurial Strategies, Business Networks, and Western Migration in the Atlantic World, 1787–1859” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3221816.
Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff, Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ‘Coon Songs,’ and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. viii, 461 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-57806-901-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Billingsley, Andrew, Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxvi, 253 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57003-686-6.)
Engerman, Stanley L., Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 114 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3236-4.)
Foner, Eric, and Manning Marable, eds., Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxiv, 270 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03029-1.)
Frost, Karolyn Smardz, I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. xxvi, 450 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-374-16481-2.)
Grady-Willis, Winston A., Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxiv, 288 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 0-8223-3778-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8223-3791-6.)
Hayes, Eileen M., and Linda F. Williams, eds., Black Women and Music: More than the Blues. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 261 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03184-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07426-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Kersten, Andrew E., A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xiv, 169 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4897-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4898-5.)
Levine, Lawrence W., Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xxxiv, 522 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-19-530569-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-530568-5.) 30th Anniversary Edition.
Maltz, Earl M., Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 182 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1502-5. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1503-2.)
Mitchell, Thomas G., Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. vi, 289 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99168-5.)
Moreno, Paul D., Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 334 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8071-3094-X.)
Robinson, Edward J., To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 212 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1555-9.)
Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xxii, 210 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3976-8. Paper, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-3977-5.)
St. Clair, William, The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. (New York: BlueBridge, 2007. 282 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-933346-05-2.)
Tidwell, John Edgar, and Cheryl R. Ragar, eds., Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 351 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1716-5.)
Whitman, T. Stephen, Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007. xvi, 301 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 0-938420-96-8.)
Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr., vol. 6: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948–March 1963. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xxxiv, 720 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-520-24874-8.)
Dworkin, Ira, ed., Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xlvi, 406 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3961-4.)
Keeling, John, ed., “A Fourierist’s Observations of the Antebellum Attakapas,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 69–82.
Lewis, Pamela, “Black Sheep,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 43 (Spring 2006), 5–21.
Lyne, Judy, comp., “Logan County Emancipations, 1792–1865,” Kentucky Ancestors, 41 (Summer 2006), 182–99.
McKay, Claude, A Long Way from Home, ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xl, 270 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-3967-6. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3968-3.) Originally published in 1937.
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