Recent Scholarship
African American
Bradley, Stefan, “‘This is Harlem Heights’: Black Student Power and the 1968 Columbia University Rebellion,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (Jan. 2008), 99–122.
Breaux, Richard M., “Using the Press to Fight Jim Crow at Two White Midwestern Universities, 1900–1940,” in The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power, ed. Eileen H. Tamura, 141–64. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 226 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60043-0.)
Butler, Diedre Hill, “The South Side Community Center of Ithaca, New York: Built through ‘Community Mothering,’ 1938,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (Jan. 2008), 75–90.
Dixie, Quinton, “Organizing God’s Children: The Denominational Tradition and the Problem of Black Baptist Unity,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Spring 2007), 8–18.
Early, Joe, Jr., “Richard Henry Boyd: Shaper of Black Baptist Identity,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Spring 2007), 91–104.
Gambler, Francesca, “The Public Sphere and the End of American Abolitionism, 1833–1870,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Dec. 2007), 351–68.
Knowles, Helen J., “The Constitution and Slavery: A Special Relationship,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Dec. 2007), 309–28.
Krauthamer, Barbara, “A Particular Kind of Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, Kinship, and Freedom in the American Southeast,” in Women and Slavery, Volume Two: The Modern Atlantic, ed. Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, 100–127. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xxviii, 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1725-6. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1726-3.)
Lemak, Jennifer A., “Albany, New York and the Great Migration,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (Jan. 2008), 47–74.
Lindfors, Bernth, “Ira Aldridge’s Life in New York City,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (Jan. 2008), 7–46.
McBride, Genevieve G., and Stephen R. Byers, “The First Black Mayor of Milwaukee: J. Anthony Josey,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Winter 2007-2008), 2–15.
Miller, Joseph C., “Domiciled and Dominated: Slaving as a History of Women,” in Women and Slavery, vol. 2: The Modern Atlantic, ed. Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, 284–312. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xxviii, 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1725-6. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1726-3.)
Mobley, Kendal P., “‘What a Chasm There Is between Us’: Charlotte Hawkins Brown and White Protestant Progressives, 1901–1952,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Spring 2007), 42–51.
Moses, James L., “‘The Law of Life is the Law of Service’: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Quest for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926–1963,” Southern Jewish History, 10 (2007), 159–203.
Parasecoli, Fabio, “Bootylicious: Food and the Female Body in Contemporary Black Pop Culture,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 35 (Spring-Summer 2007), 110–25.
Penningroth, Dylan C., “The Claims of Slaves and Ex-Slaves to Family and Property: A Transatlantic Comparison,” American Historical Review, 112 (Oct. 2007), 1039–69.
Perez, Judith A., “‘Movin’ On Up’: Pioneer African-American Families Living in an Integrated Neighborhood in the Bronx, New York,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 43 (Fall 2006), 69–93.
Randall, Ruth, “A Family for Suzanne,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 95 (Dec. 2007), 281–301.
Robertson, Claire, and Marsha Robinson, “Re-modeling Slavery as If Women Mattered,” in Women and Slavery, Volume Two: The Modern Atlantic, ed. Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, 253–83. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xxviii, 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1725-6. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1726-3.)
Sanders-McMurtry, Kijua, and Nia Woods Haydel, “Linking Friendship and Service: Education and Philanthropy among the Black Elite, 1946–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 179–92. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Smith, Felipe, “The Condition of the Mother: The Legacy of Slavery in African American Literature of the Jim Crow Era,” in Women and Slavery, Volume Two: The Modern Atlantic, ed. Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, 231–50. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xxviii, 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1725-6. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1726-3.)
Smoot, Pamela A., “African American Baptist Women: Making a New Way out of No Way,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Spring 2007), 19–33.
Swartz, Ellen, “Stepping Outside the Master Script: Re-Connecting the History of American Education,” Journal of Negro Education, 76 (Spring 2007), 173–86.
West, Emily, “‘She is dissatisfied with her present condition’: Requests for Voluntary Enslavement in the Antebellum American South,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Dec. 2007), 329–50.
Daves, John Patrick Cansler, “Raising Black Dreams: Representations of Six Generations of a Family’s Local Racial-Activist Traditions” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3260285.
Davis, David L., “The ‘Negro Question’: Philanthropy, Education, and Citizenship in the Gilded-Age South” (Rice University, 2007). Order No. DA3256682.
Davis, Rynetta Sherri, “Beyond Labor and Marriage: The Political Work of Black Women’s Inter- and Intra-Racial Friendship in American Literary History, 1857–1911” (University of Kentucky, 2006). Order No. DA3259113.
Decker, Todd R., “Black/White Encounters on the American Musical Stage and Screen (1924–2005)” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3253256.
Dietrich, Erich E., “Tuskegees of the North: African American Orphanages in New York, 1890–1940” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3259695.
Farrah, Scott David, “Signifyin(g): A Semiotic Analysis of Symphonic Works by William Grant Still, William Levi Dawson, and Florence B. Price” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3263789.
Jamison, DeReef F., “The Evolution of Black Psychology: Major Issues, Concepts, and Themes from 1974–1999” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3255123.
Smith, Arthur Cameron, “Coaching and Community during Jim Crow: A History of the Golden Era of the ciaa” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3263257.
Trembanis, Sarah Lorraine, “‘They opened the door too late’: African Americans and Baseball, 1900–1947” (College of William and Mary, 2006). Order No. DA3250422.
White Ndounou, Monica, “The Color of Hollywood: The Cultural Politics Controlling the Production of African American Original Screenplays, Stage Plays, and Novels Adapted into Films from 1980 to 2000” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3262143.
Bielakowski, Alexander, African American Troops in World War II. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 64 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-84603-072-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds., Women and Slavery, vol. 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xxx, 399 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1723-2. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1724-9.)
Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds., Women and Slavery, vol. 2: The Modern Atlantic. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xxviii, 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1725-6. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1726-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Geselbracht, Raymond H., ed., The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2007. xxii, 224 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-67-3.)
Swan, Robert J., New Amsterdam Gehenna: Segregated Death in New York City, 1630–1801. (Brooklyn: Noir Verite Press, 2008. xiv, 521 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-9722813-0-0.)
Davey, Elizabeth, and Rodney Clark, eds., Remember My Sacrifice: The Autobiography of Clinton Clark, Tenant Farm Organizer and Early Civil Rights Activist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. lxii, 177 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3277-7.)
Foster, Frances Smith, ed., Love and Marriage in Early African America. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xxvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-1-55553-676-3. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-55553-677-0.)
Gardner, Eric, ed., Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. xxxiv, 153 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-934110-10-2.)
Howard, Walter T., ed., Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. x, 197 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-59213-597-4.)
Schweninger, Loren, ed., The Southern Debate over Slavery, vol. 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775–1867. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxiv, 397 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03260-8.)
Seitz, Phillip R., ed., “Tales from the Chew Family Papers: The Charity Castle Story,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (Jan. 2008), 65–86.
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