Recent Scholarship
African American
Adelt, Ulrich, “Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of ‘Race’ and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 951–74.
Beyerlein, Kraig, and Kenneth T. Andrews, “Black Voting during the Civil Rights Movement: A Micro-level Analysis,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 65–93.
Burton, Linda M., and M. Belinda Tucker, “Romantic Unions in an Era of Uncertainty: A Post-Moynihan Perspective on African American Women and Marriage,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 132–48.
Campney, Brent M. S., “W. B. Townsend and the Struggle against Racist Violence in Leavenworth,” Kansas History, 31 (Winter 2008–2009), 260–73.
Cope, Graeme, “‘Everybody Says All Those People . . . Were from Out of Town, but They Weren’t’: A Note on Crowds during the Little Rock Crisis,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 246–67.
Curwood, Anastasia, “A Fresh Look at E. Franklin Frazier’s Sexual Politics in The Negro Family in the United States,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 325–37.
Danielson, Chris, “‘Lily White and Hard Right’: The Mississippi Republican Party and Black Voting, 1965–1980,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 83–118.
Diemer, Andrew, “Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and Politics in the Post–Civil War North,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Jan. 2009), 29–58.
Dolan, Mark K., “Dave Peyton, the Chicago Defender, and Local 208,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 154–48.
Furstenberg, Frank F., “If Moynihan Had Only Known: Race, Class, and Family Change in the Late Twentieth Century,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 94–110.
Gems, Gerald R., “Blocked Shot: The Development of Basketball in the African-American Community of Chicago,” in The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City, ed. Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems, 281–98. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.)
Greene, Anthony C., “The Black Bronx: A Look at the Foundation of the Bronx’s Black Communities until 1900,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 44 (Spring–Fall 2007), 1–18.
Hawkins, Karen M., “Rising Phoenix-Like: The African American Struggle and Mobilization for Political Rights in New Bern, North Carolina, 1968–1979,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (Oct. 2008), 379–415.
Henderson, Simon, “Crossing the Line: Sport and the Limits of Civil Rights Protest,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 101–21.
Higashida, Cheryl, “To Be(come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 899–924.
Holzer, Harry J., “The Labor Market and Young Black Men: Updating Moynihan’s Perspective,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 47–69.
Johnson, Ellen, “Geographic Context and Ethnic Context: Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker,” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 235–55.
Lawrence, Noah, “‘Since It Is My Right, I Would Like to Have It’: Edna Griffin and the Katz Drug Store Desegregation Movement,” Annals of Iowa, 67 (Fall 2008), 298–330.
Litwack, Leon F., “‘Fight the Power!’: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 3–28.
Malone, Barry F., “Before Brown: Cultural and Social Capital in a Rural Black School Community, W. E. B. Du Bois High School, Wake Forest, North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (Oct. 2008), 416–47.
Mangun, Kimberley, “Boosting the Bottom Line: Beatrice Morrow Cannady’s Tactics to Promote The Advocate, 1923–1933,” American Journalism, 25 (Summer 2008), 31–69.
Massey, Douglas S., and Robert J. Sampson, “Moynihan Redux: Legacies and Lessons,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 6–27.
Parker, Maegan, “Ironic Openings: The Interpretive Challenge of the ‘Black Manifesto,’” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94 (Aug. 2008), 320–42.
Pitman, Bambra (Barb), “Culture, Caste, and Conflict in New Orleans Catholicism: Archbishop Francis Janssens and the Color Line,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 423–62.
Prasch, Robert E., “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Contributions to U.S. Economics (1893–1910),” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 309–24.
Reed, Lesley-Anne, “Transitional Generations: African American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industries, 1930–1950,” Louisiana History, 50 (Winter 2009), 25–56.
Runstedtler, Theresa, “Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line,” Radical History Review (no. 103, Winter 2009), 59–81.
Schwartz, Barry, “The Limits of Gratitude: Lincoln in African American Memory,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 27–33.
Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, “Replicating History in a Bad Way? White Activists and Black Power in sncc’s Arkansas Project,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 268–87.
Whitfield, Stephen J., “The ‘Golden’ Era of Civil Rights: Consequences of The Carolina Israelite,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Fall 2008), 26–51.
Wilson, William Julius, “The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 34–46.
Younger, Karen Fisher, “Liberia and the Last Slave Ships,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 424–42.
Benard, Akeia A. F., “The Free African American Cultural Landscape: Newport, R.I., 1774–1826” (University of Connecticut, 2008). Order No. DA3308227.
Benson, Michon Anita, “From the Ride‘n’Tie to Ryde-or-Die: A Pedagogy of Survival in Black Youth Popular Cultural Forms” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309831.
Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun, “The Black Maternal: Heterogeneity and Resistance in Literary Representations of Black Mothers in 20th-Century African American and Anglo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304362.
Brown, Kathleen, “Writing Our Way Home: A Life History Study of African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century Who Grew to Adulthood Enslaved” (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2008). Order No. DA3306674.
Callaway, Patricia Birch, “‘Don’t You Fall’ Resilient and Academically Successful African Americans’ Literacy and Family Involvement Practices” (University of Kentucky, 2008). Order No. DA3315005.
Clark, Adam L., “Honoring the Ancestors: Toward an Afrocentric Approach to Christian Theology” (Union Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314595.
Dalrymple, Daniel A., “In the Shadow of Garvey: Garveyites in New York City and the British Caribbean, 1925–1950” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3312677.
Decker, Stefanie Lee, “The Mask of the Southern Lady: Virginia Foster Durr, Southern Womanhood, and Reform” (Oklahoma State University, 2007). Order No. DA3304192.
Demas, Lane, “Integrating the Gridiron: Civil Rights and American College Football, 1935–1970” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3311554.
Faraj, Gaidi, “Unearthing the Underground: A Study of Radical Activism in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306133.
Ferreira, Isabel Cristina Rodrigues, “The Dialogue about ‘Racial Democracy’ among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304408.
Field, Allyson Nadia, “Filming Back and Black: Strategies of African American Political Modernism” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312355.
Fullwood, Willie, “African American Political Participation: A Case Study of Brunswick County, North Carolina” (Union Institute & University, 2008). Order No. DA3311974.
Gilbert, Kenyatta R., “A Time to Preach, a Time to Cry: An Investigation into the Nature of Prophetic Preaching in Black Churches during the Great Migration Period, 1916–1940” (Princeton Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3316572.
Gillespie, Deanna M., “‘They Walk, Talk, and Act like New People’: Black Women and the Citizenship Education Program, 1957–1970” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3307992.
Green, Michael Cullen, “Black Yanks in America’s Pacific: Race and the Making of a Military Empire, 1945–1953” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3303649.
Hampton, Isaac W., II, “The Journey of African American Officers through the Vietnam Era” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3311737.
Hohle, Randolph H., Jr., “Symbolic Citizenship, Ethical Practice, and the Body: Competing Political Projects in the Black Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1968” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3311708.
Johnson, David Miles, “Beyond Freedom: The Black North, 1863–1883” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306181.
Johnson, Nalo M., “The History of the Founding of the Legal Rights Center: A Study in Coalition Building between the Black and Amerian Indian Communities of Minneapolis” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA33133449.
Kaliss, Gregory John, “Everyone’s All-Americans: Race, Men’s College Athletics, and the Ideal of Equal Opportunity” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304342.
Lansbury, Jennifer H., “Champions Indeed: The Emergence of African American Women Athletes in American Society, 1930–1960” (George Mason University, 2008). Order No. DA3313515.
Macki, Adrienne C., “Staging the ‘Folk’: A History of Harlem’s Little Theatre Movement, 1920–1940” (Tufts University, 2008). Order No. DA3304127.
Mantler, Gordon Keith, “Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People’s Campaign, and Its Legacies” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297872.
McKay, Charles, “The American Front Porch as a Lieu de Mémoire in African American Literature” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3308656.
Mustakeem, Sowandé, “‘Make Haste & Let Me See You with a Good Cargo of Negroes’: Gender, Health, and Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Middle Passage” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3312724.
Powell, Damon A., “Black Is Beautiful: An Exploration in Black Theology, Aesthetics & Art” (Graduate Theological Union, 2008). Order No. DA3313238.
Pritchard, Eric Darnell, “‘A Litany for Survival’: Black Queer Literacies” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314337.
Ragar, Cheryl R., “Plunging into the Very Depths of the Souls of Our People: The Life and Art of Aaron Douglas” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3307709.
Redmond, Shana L., “Anthem: Music and Politics in Diaspora, 1920–1970s” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317206.
Sato, Paula Kaye, “The Gothic or the Monstrous: African American and Caribbean Nightmares” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312166.
Shabazz Sanders, G. Rashad, “‘They Imprison the Whole Population’: U.S. and South African Prison Literature and the Emergence of Symbiotic Carcerality, 1900–Present” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317409.
Shearer, Tobin Miller, “‘A Pure Fellowship’: The Danger and Necessity of Purity in White and African-American Mennonite Racial Exchange, 1935–1971” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3303602.
Van Sickle, Eugene S., “A Transnational Vision: John H. B. Latrobe and Maryland’s African Colonization Movement” (West Virginia University, 2005). Order No. DA3306709.
Zogry, Kenneth Joel, “The House That Dr. Pope Built: Race, Politics, Memory, and the Early Struggle for Civil Rights in North Carolina” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304242.
Archer, Jermaine O., Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-99027-1.)
Baker, John F., Jr., The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom. (New York: Atria, 2009. xii, 419 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-4165-6740-0.)
Ezra, Michael, Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $69.50, isbn 978-1-59213-661-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-59213-662-9.)
Friedman, Joel William, Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 401 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3384-2.)
Gero, Anthony F., Black Soldiers of New York State: A Proud Legacy. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv, 174 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2615-0. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2616-7.)
Glasrud, Bruce A., and Archie P. McDonald, eds., Blacks in East Texas History: Selections from the East Texas Historical Journal. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xx, 188 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-041-7.)
Osborne, Linda Barrett, Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War through Reconstruction. (New York: Abrams, 2009. 128 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8109-8338-0.)
Podair, Jerald, Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xiv, 173 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4513-7.)
Rieder, Jonathan, The Word of the Lord Is upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King Jr. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2008. xiv, 394 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-02822-7.)
Tidwell, John Edgar, and Steven C. Tracy, eds., After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxvi, 470 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-19-536580-1.)
Walton, Jonathan L., Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9417-3. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9452-4.)
Ellis, William W., White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization. (New York: Aldine de Gruyter / Aldine Transaction, 2009. xviii, 190 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-202-36289-2.) Originally published in 1969.
Houck, Davis W., and David E. Dixon, eds., Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xx, 322 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-107-1.)
Neal, Anthony W., Unburdened by Conscience: A Black People’s Collective Account of America’s Ante-bellum South and the Aftermath. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. xii, 153 pp. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4387-0.)
Robinson, Mildred Wigfall, and Richard J. Bonnie, eds., Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. xiv, 249 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8265-169-0.)
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