Recent Scholarship
Race
Adams, Mikaëla M., “Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865–1934,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2009), 404–35.
Austin, Allan W., “‘Let’s Do Away with Walls!’: The American Friends Service Committee’s Interracial Section and the 1920s United States,” Quaker History, 98 (Spring 2009), 1–34.
Ayabe, Masatomo, “Ku Kluxers in a Coal Mining Community: A Study of the Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923–1926,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Spring 2009), 73–100.
Binnington, Ian, “Standing upon a Volcano: Cincinnati’s Newspapers Debate Emancipation, 1860–1862,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (June 2009), 163–86.
Bray, Chris, “‘Every Right to Be Where She Was’: The Legal Reconstruction of Black Self-Defense in Jim Crow Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2009), 352–78.
Bridgen, Lorene, “On Their Own Terms: Temperance in Southern Ontario’s Black Community (1830–1860),” Ontario History (Willowdale), 101 (Spring 2009), 64–82.
Chatters, Linda M., et al., “Race and Ethnic Differences in Religious Involvement: African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 32 (Sept. 2009), 1143–63.
Chujo, Ken, “Posuto minken undo-ki niokeru jinshu to chitsujo: Afamativu akushon to ‘Kara-buraindona tayosei’ hihan” (Race and order in the post–civil rights era: Affirmative action and the critique of ‘colorblind diversity’), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 69. In Japanese.
Cook, Alison, and Christy Glass, “When Markets Blink: U.S. Stock Price Responses to the Appointment of Minority Leaders,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 32 (Sept. 2009), 1183–202.
Darden, Gary Helm, “The New Empire in the ‘New South’: Jim Crow in the Global Frontier of High Imperialism and Decolonization,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 8–25.
Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe, “Burlesquing ‘Otherness’ in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Image of the Indian in John Brougham’s Met-a-mora; Or, The Last of the Pollywogs (1847) and Po-Ca-Hon-Tas; Or, The Gentle Savage (1855),” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 101–23.
Dierksheide, Christa, and Peter S. Onuf, “Slaveholding Nation, Slaveholding Civilization,” in In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals, ed. William J. Cooper Jr. and John M. McCardell Jr., 9–24. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. x, 195 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3444-3.)
Dougherty, Jack, et al., “School Choice in Suburbia: Test Scores, Race, and Housing Markets,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Aug. 2009), 523–48.
Drabble, John, “From White Supremacy to White Power: The fbi, cointelpro-white hate, and the Nazification of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s,” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 49–74.
Eitle, Tamela McNulty, and Matthew Steffens, “Religious Affiliation and Beliefs about Racial Inequality: White College Students’ Attitudes about Black-White and Native American–White Inequality,” Social Science Journal, 46 (Sept. 2009), 506–20.
Ezra, David Alan, “Doe v. Kamehameha Schools: A ‘Discrete and Insular Minority’ in Hawai‘i Seventy Years after Carolene Products?,” University of Hawai‘i Law Review, 30 (Summer 2008), 295–318.
Feldman, Glenn, “Southern Disillusionment with the Democratic Party: Cultural Conformity and the ‘the Great Melding’ of Racial and Economic Conservatism in Alabama during World War II,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug. 2009), 199–230.
Fujinaga, Yasumasa, “‘Nagaku atsuinatsu’ saiko: 60 nendai kokujin radikaruzu no sozoryoku to toshi bodo nikansuru ichikosatsu” (Reconsidering the ‘long hot summer’: A historiographical sketch of the race riots of the 1960s and imaginations of black radicals), Yamaguchi Daigaku Bungakubukaishi (Yamaguchi), 58 (2008), 63–89. In Japanese.
Goodman, David, “Anglophilia and Racial Nationalism in the Debate about U.S. Entry into World War 2,” in Projections of Britain in the United States of America, Australia, and New Zealand: 1900–1950, ed. Heather Kerr and Lawrence Warner, 17–24. (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2008. vii, 72 pp. Paper, isbn 978-1-921-01318-8.)
Graham, Jessica, “Joe Louis contra Max Schmeling e a nova ideolgia da democracia racial nos Estados Unidos” (Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and the new ideology of racial democracy in the United States), Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), 13 (no. 25, 2008), 109–30. In Portuguese.
Heale, M. J., “Anatomy of a Scare: Yellow Peril Politics in America, 1980–1993,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (April 2009), 19–47.
Hirata, Miwako, “Amerika sanberuto no kyowato-ka to daitoshiken kogai: Kyosei basu tsugaku o chushin ni” (The rise of the Republican party in the sun belt South: On the problem of busing), Musashi Daigaku Jinbun Zasshi (Tokyo), 40 (no. 2, 2008), 187–214. In Japanese.
Housel, William, “The Persistence of Vision: Problems with Race after the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 33–45.
Huerta, Joel, “Friday Night Rights: South Texas High-School Football and the Struggle for Equality,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (June 2009), 981–1000.
Ishiyama, Noriko, “Kororado Riba Indian Kyojuchi no nochi kaitaku to Nikkeijin rodoryoku: Posuton shuyojo no chiri-kukan” (The agricultural development of the Colorado River Indian Reservation and Japanese-American labor: A geographical analysis of the Poston Internment Camp), Rikkyo Amerikan Sutadizu (Tokyo), 30 (March 2008), 135–52. In Japanese.
Johnson, Timothy, “‘Death for Negro Lynching!’: The Communist Party, usa’s Position on the African American Question,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 243–54.
Jones, Jacqueline, “Labor and the Idea of Race in the American South,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 613–26.
Joo, Thomas W., “Yick Wo Re-revisited: Nonblack Nonwhites and Fourteenth Amendment History,” University of Illinois Law Review (Fall 2008), 1427–40.
Joseph, Peniel E., “Rethinking the Black Power Era,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 707–16.
Kaneko, Ayumu, “Otokorashiku baketsu o orosu: Bukka T. Washington no ‘jinshuteki hikisage’ ideorogi ni okero ‘otokorashisa’ to kaikyu” (To cast down a bucket like a man: ‘Manhood’ and class ideology of ‘racial cast-down’), Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo) (Sept. 2008), 21–31. In Japanese.
Kolin, Philip C., “Haunting America: Emmett Till in Music and Song,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Fall 2009), 115–38.
Kreyling, Michael, “Robert Penn Warren: The Real Southerner and the ‘Hypothetical Negro,’” American Literary History, 21 (Summer 2009), 268–95.
Manning, Christopher, “‘God Didn’t Curse Me When He Made Me Black,’” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Spring 2009), 28–72.
McDermott, Stacy Pratt, “‘Black Bill’ and the Privileges of Whiteness in Antebellum Illinois,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Spring 2009), 2–26.
Minamikawa, Fuminori, “Ritoru Tokyo no saiken? Saiteiju-ki niokeru komyuniti to jinshu kyocho-shugi” (Rebuilding little Tokyo? Community and interracialism in the resettlement era), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 135–53. In Japanese.
Minchin, Timothy J., “One America? Church Burnings and Perceptions of Race Relations in the Clinton Years,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 1–28.
Mollano, Kara, “Race, Roads, and Right-of-Way: A Campaign to Block Highway Construction in Fort Madison, 1967–1976,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Summer 2009), 255–97.
Moriwaki, Yumiko, “Burakku feisu minsutoreru to rodosha kaikyu: 19 seiki zenhan Nyuyoku niokeru jinshu to kaikyu” (Blackface minstrelsy and the American working class: Race and class in early-nineteenth-century New York City), Ritsumeikan Bungaku (Kyoto), 604 (2008), 684–93. In Japanese.
Page, Amanda M., “The Ever-Expanding South: James Weldon Johnson and the Rhetoric of the Global Color Line,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 26–46.
Singh, Nikhil Pal, “Beyond the ‘Empire of Jim Crow’: Race and War in Contemporary U.S. Globalism,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 20 (2009), 89–112.
Smith, Rogers M., and Desmond S. King, “Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics,” Du Bois Review, 6 (March 2009), 25–35.
Smyth, J. E., “Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: Reconstructing Ferber’s Giant (1952–1956),” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 5–27.
Sohoni, Deenesh, and Salvatore Saporito, “Mapping School Segregation: Using gis to Explore Racial Segregation between Schools and Their Corresponding Attendence Areas,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Aug. 2009), 569–600.
Steedman, Marek D., “Resistance, Rebirth, and Redemption: The Rhetoric of White Supremacy in Post–Civil War Louisiana,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 35 (Spring 2009), 97–113.
Takei, Hiroshi, “Hokubu toshi niokeru koritsu gakko no jinshu kakuri teppai undo: 1960 nendai no Shikago o jirei nishite” (Desegregating public schools in the northern cities: The case of 1960s Chicago), Hitotsubashi Shakaikagaku (Tokyo), 5 (2008), 213–39. In Japanese.
Vickery, Peter, “Race, Liberty, and the Electoral System in Massachusetts,” New England Journal of History, 65 (Spring 2009), 48–73.
Yagyu, Tomoko, “Nambu dorei torihiki no hatten oyobi sono Kakudai to shiji no Haikei” (The expansion of the domestic slave trade and proslavery ideology: Trading networks, business strategies, and the formation of a southern worldview), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 7 (2008), 21–40. In Japanese.
Zug, James, “The Color of Our Skin: Quakerism and Integration at Sidwell Friends School,” Quaker History, 98 (Spring 2009), 35–47.
Cornell, Sarah E., “Americans in the U.S. South and Mexico: A Transnational History of Race, Slavery, and Freedom, 1810–1910” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3329864.
Frug, Stephen Ellison, “Accepting Equality: Rhetorical Reactions to the Changing Politics of de Jure Segregation” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3330054.
Golland, David Hamilton, “Constructing Affirmative Action: Federal Contract Compliance and the Building Construction Trades, 1956–1973” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3325474.
Gordon, Leah N., “The Question of Prejudice: Social Science, Education, and the Struggle to Define ‘the Race Problem’ in Mid-century America, 1935–1965” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328567.
Maurantonio, Nicole J., “Crisis, Race, and Journalistic Authority in Postwar Philadelphia” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328620.
Morowski, Deborah Lynn, “Prevailing over Prejudice: A Story of Race, Inequity, and Education in Gonzales, Texas” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3324477.
Mueller, Ken S., “Benton and the People: White Nationalism on the Jacksonian Frontier, 1782–1848” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324193.
Reynolds, LeeAnn Garrison, “‘Red and Yellow, Black and White’: Maintaining Segregation, 1920–1955” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3328504.
Seliger, Mary Aileen, “Unmasking the Myths of Democracy in the United States: Narratives of Minority Race and Rights in Twentieth Century Literature and Jurisprudence” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3319875.
Smith, Stacey Leigh, “California Bound: Unfree Labor, Race, and the Reconstruction of the Far West, 1848–1870” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3328049.
Steeby, Elizabeth Anna, “Plantation States: Region, Race, and Sexuality in the Cultural Memory of the U.S. South, 1900–1945” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3320636.
Williams, Christopher Newell, “Caught in the Web of Scapegoating: National Coverage of California’s Proposition 187” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3319946.
Witmer, Andrew Daryl, “God’s Interpreters: Protestant Missionaries, African Converts, and Conceptions of Race in the United States, 1830–1910” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3327015.
Bean, Jonathan, ed., Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xxii, 331 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2545-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8131-9231-9.)
Bush, Roderick D., The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. 258 pp. Cloth, $79.50, isbn 978-1-59213-572-1. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-59213-573-8.)
Kerr, Heather, and Lawrence Warner, eds., Projections of Britain in the United States of America, Australia, and New Zealand: 1900–1950. (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2008. vii, 72 pp. Paper, isbn 978-1-921-01318-8.)
Luczak, Ewa, and Antoszek Andrzej, eds., Czarno na bialym: Afroamerykanie którzy poruszyli Ameryke (Down in black and white: The Afro-Americans who touched America). (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2009. 335 pp. zl. 37, isbn 978-9-323-50595-2.) In Polish.
Michael, George, Theology of Hate: A History of the World Church of the Creator. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. x, 285 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3350-1.)
Pennybacker, Susan D., From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xviii, 382 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-691-08828-0. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-691-14186-2.)
Sachsman, David B., S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr., eds., Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press. (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009. xiv, 347 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 978-1-55753-505-4. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-1-55753-508-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
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