Recent Scholarship
African American
Alexander, Rudolph, Jr., “Differential Laws for African Americans: Inequality from the Past Continues to the Present,” Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 27–55.
Baker, Bruce E., “How W. E. B. Du Bois Won the United Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Contest,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Spring 2009), 69–81.
Best, William D., “The Rise of African American Community Centers: A Brief History of 1490 Enterprises, Inc., Buffalo, New York,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 98–117.
Borst, Allan G., “Signifyin(g) Afro-Orientalism: The Jazz-Addict Subculture in Nigger Heaven and Home to Harlem,” Modernism/Modernity, 16 (Nov. 2009), 685–707.
Bowman, Kristi L., “The Civil Rights Roots of Tinker’s Disruption Tests,” American University Law Review, 58 (June 2009), 1129–65.
Breaux, Richard M., “‘To the Uplift and Protection of Young Womanhood’: African-American Women at Iowa’s Private Colleges and the University of Iowa, 1878–1928,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 159–81.
Brenner, Samuel, “‘Airbrushed out of the Constitutional Canon’: The Evolving Understanding of Giles v. Harris, 1903–1925,” Michigan Law Review, 107 (March 2009), 853–79.
Burg, Steven B., “The North Queen Street Cemetery and the African-American Experience in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 77 (Winter 2010), 1–36.
Carle, Susan D., “Debunking the Myth of Civil Rights Liberalism: Visions of Racial Justice in the Thought of T. Thomas Fortune, 1880–1890,” Fordham Law Review, 77 (March 2009), 1479–533.
Casebeer, Kenneth M., “Memory Lost: Brown v. Board and the Constitutional Economy of Liberty and Race,” University of Miami Law Review, 63 (Jan. 2009), 537–47.
Cashin, Sheryll D., “Justice Thurgood Marshall: A Race Man’s Race-Transcending Jurisprudence,” Howard Law Journal, 52 (Spring 2009), 507–22.
Chacón, Jennifer M., “Civil Rights, Immigrants’ Rights, Human Rights: Lessons from the Life and Works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” New York University Review of Law and Social Change, 32 (no. 4, 2008), 465–84.
Clark, William Bedford, “The Black Dispatch: A Window on Ralph Ellison’s First World,” Mississippi Quarterly, 62 (Winter–Spring 2009), 3–18.
Crowder, Ralph L., “The Historical Context and Political Significance of Harlem’s Street Scholar Community,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 34–71.
Davies, John, “Saint-Dominguan Refugees of African Descent and the Forging of Ethnic Identity in Early National Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 134 (April 2010), 109–26.
Delmont, Matthew, “The Plight of the ‘Able Student’: Ruth Wright Hayre and the Struggle for Equality in Philadelphia’s Black High Schools, 1955–1965,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 204–30.
Fett, Sharla M., “Middle Passages and Forced Migrations: Liberated Africans in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Camps and Ships,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 31 (March 2010), 75–98.
Fox, James, “Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship and the Reconstruction-Era Black Public Sphere,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1245–75.
Frost, Jennifer, “Teaching the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in New Zealand,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (Dec. 2009), 49–64.
Fuller, Jennifer, “Dangerous Fictions: Race, History, and King,” Cinema Journal, 49 (Winter 2010), 40–62.
Garrow, David J., “Foreshadowing the Future: 1957 and the United States Black Freedom Struggle,” Arkansas Law Review, 62 (no. 1, 2009), 1–28.
Gershenhorn, Jerry, “A Courageous Voice for Black Freedom: Louis Austin and the Carolina Times in Depression-Era North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 87 (Jan. 2010), 57–92.
Glasrud, Bruce A., and Gregg Andrews, “Confronting White Supremacy: The African American Left in Texas, 1874–1974,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 157–90. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)
Graber, Mark A., “The Price of Fame: Brown as Celebrity,” Ohio State Law Journal, 69 (no. 5, 2008), 939–1013.
Grant, Otis B., “President Ronald Reagan and the African-American Community: Harmful Stereotyping and Games of Choice in Market-Oriented Policy Reform,” Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 57–96.
Hudson, J. Blaine, “Abraham Lincoln: An African American Perspective,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 513–35.
Jenkins, Jeffery A., Justin Peck, and Vesla M. Weaver, “Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891–1940,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 57–89.
Jones, D. Marvin, “The Original Meaning of Brown: Seattle, Segregation, and the Rewriting of History,” University of Miami Law Review, 63 (Jan. 2009), 629–55.
King, Charlotte, “Separated by Death and Color: The African American Cemetery of New Philadelphia, Illinois,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 125–37.
King, William E., “The Discovery of an Architect: Duke University and Julian F. Abele,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Spring 2009), 6–21.
Kita, Miyuki, “Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement, Black Nationalism, and Jews at Brandeis University,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 31 (2009), 101–20.
Kuffner, Michael R., “From Public Schools to Public Libraries: Examining the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education on the Desegregation of Public Libraries,” Alabama Law Review, 59 (no. 4, 2008), 1247–75.
Lee, Chulhee, “Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Soldiers during the American Civil War,” Social Science History, 33 (Winter 2009), 427–57.
Lumsden, Linda, “Good Mothers with Guns: Framing Black Womanhood in the Black Panther, 1968–1980,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 86 (Winter 2009), 900–23.
Mangun, Kimberley, “Editor A. D. Griffin: Envisioning a New Age for Black Oregonians (1896–1907),” American Journalism, 26 (Summer 2009), 55–92.
Mohl, Raymond A., “A Merger of Movements: Peace and Civil Rights Activism in Postwar Miami,” Peace & Change, 35 (April 2010), 258–94.
Ohman, Marian M., “African and African-American Musicians Seeking Progress at a Century of Progress,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 368–401.
Okuda, Akiyo, “Social Justice and Economic Reparation: African-American Struggles for Equal Opportunity around the Turn of the Century,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 31 (2009), 205–17.
Porter, Eric, “Imagining Africa, Remaking the World: W. E. B. Du Bois’ History for the Future,” Rethinking History (London), 13 (Dec. 2009), 479–98.
Priest, Myisha, “‘The Nightmare Is Not Cured’: Emmett Till and American Healing,” American Quarterly, 62 (March 2010), 1–24.
Quinn, Eithne, “‘Tryin’ to Get Over’: Super Fly, Black Politics, and Post–Civil Rights Film Enterprise,” Cinema Journal, 49 (Winter 2010), 86–105.
Reitano, Joanne, “Moving Minds and Mountains: African Americans in New York City from 1919 to 1945,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 118–34.
Rubio, Philip F., “Al Rubio and the 1930s Student Sit-In Campaign against Jim Crow in Champaign, Illinois,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Winter 2009), 250–78.
Rushing, Lawrence, “The Racial Identity of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: A Case Study in Racial Ambivalence and Redefinition,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 7–33.
Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, “Zipporah in Her Own Right: An African in Early Boston,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 98 (March 2010), 15–30.
Scott, Wendy B., “Dr. King and Parents Involved: The Battle for Hearts and Minds,” New York University Review of Law and Social Change, 32 (no. 4, 2008), 543–71.
Shackel, Paul A., “Remembering New Philadelphia,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 7–19.
Starkey, Brando Simeo, “Drastic Action: The 1983 Course Boycott at Harvard Law School,” St. Thomas Law Review, 21 (Fall 2008), 56–107.
Steiker, Jordan M., “Brown’s Descendants,” Howard Law Journal, 52 (Spring 2009), 583–614.
Street, Joe, “The Historiography of the Black Panther Party,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (May 2010), 351–75.
Streichler, Stuart, “What Would Warren Do? A Brief Historical Comment on Brown and Parents Involved,” Tennessee Law Review, 76 (Fall 2008), 159–85.
Walker, Anders, “‘Neutral’ Principles: Rethinking the Legal History of Civil Rights, 1934–1964,” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 40 (Spring 2009), 385–436.
Walker, Anders, “The Violent Bear It Away: Emmett Till and the Modernization of Law Enforcement in Mississippi,” San Diego Law Review, 46 (May–June 2009), 459–504.
Ward, Brian, “Civil Rights and Rock and Roll: Revisiting the Nat King Cole Attack of 1956,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (April 2010), 21–24.
Williamson, Jane, “African Americans in Addison County, Charlotte, and Hinesburgh, Vermont, 1790–1860,” Vermont History, 78 (Winter–Spring 2010), 15–42.
Adika, Prince Kwame, “Re-membered Kinship: African and African Diasporan Narratives of Return and Their Relevance in a Transnational World” (Illinois State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363850.
Bahde, Thomas William, “Race and Justice in the Heartland: Three Nineteenth-Century Lives” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3361765.
Bennett Muhammad, Kathy Makeda, “Humble Warrioress: Women in the Nation of Islam, A Comparative Study, 1930–1975” (Union Institute, 2009). Order No. DA3361941.
Caldwell, Katrina Myers, “‘It Will Be Social’: Black Women Writers and the Postwar Era, 1945–1960” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3364592.
Clark, Fendrich R., “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Rhetoric of Social Change, 1897–1907: Attitude as Incipient Action” (Duquesne University, 2009). Order No. DA3364355.
Cooper, Brittney, “Race Women: The Politics of Black Female Leadership in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America” (Emory University, 2009). Order No. DA3360029.
Feldman, Denise, “The Exotic Other and Feminine Virtue: Dilemmas of African American Female Self-Representation in the Novels of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen” (St. John’s University, 2009). Order No. DA3360943.
Gaines, Alisha, “Spectacles of American Liberalism: Narratives of Racial Im/Posture” (Duke University, 2009). Order No. DA3366763.
Gilliam, Tanji, “‘That Crack in the Concrete’: Hip-Hop, Politics, and the Archive in Black Urban Video Culture, 1989–2004” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362021.
Gilpin, Robert Blakeslee, “Monster and Martyr: America’s Long Reckoning with Race, Violence, and John Brown” (Yale University, 2009). Order No. DA3362154.
Haggler, Patricia, “‘Remember’ the Sabbath: African-American Sunday Schools, Education, Activism, and Community Building in the South, 1890–1954” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3361971.
Hale, Jon N., “A History of Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1954–1965” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009). Order No. DA3363131.
Hendricks, Derick A., “Black Awareness and Social Unrest in the U.S. Virgin Islands: A Case Study of Black Nationalism, 1968–1986” (Morgan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3365785.
Hussen, Aida Ahmed, “Specters of Bondage: Freedom, Desire, and Historical Memory in Post-liberation Era African American Literature” (Emory University, 2009). Order No. DA3360018.
Jacobs, Sharita Elizabeth, “Competing Realities: Black Southern Marylanders and Their Quest to Shape Freedom in ‘Loyal’ Maryland, 1860–1880” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365868.
James, Mark Stephen, “Racing Thoughts: Anti-intellectualism in the Fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362034.
Jeffries, Bayyinah Sharief, “‘A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women’: The Critical Role of Black Muslim Women in the Development and Purveyance of Black Consciousness, 1945–1975” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363987.
Kinard, Joy Gabriella, “Far Exceeding Expectations: John R. Kinard and the Legacy of African-American Leadership, 1956–1989” (Howard University, 2009). Order No. DA3358960.
Kiuchi, Yuya, “The Black Image in the Black Mind: The History of African Americans’ Access to Cable Television in Boston and Detroit, 1963–1989” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363997.
Klenetsky, Ivy Melissa, “Robert Purvis, Black Abolitionist and Radical Feminist: The Career of an Egalitarian Elitist” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3360484.
McClure, Daniel N., “A Woman of Action: Elma Lewis, the Arts, and the Politics of Culture in Boston, 1950–1986” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3359905.
McMillan, Uri Gervase, “Subversive Objecthood: Black Female Performance” (Yale University, 2009). Order No. DA3361530.
Moore, Wilfred Arnett, “Wyatt Tee Walker: Theologian, Civil Rights Activist, and Former Chief of Staff to Martin Luther King Jr.” (Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Theology, 2009). Order No. DA3358142.
Niedzielski-Eichner, Nora, “Integrating Modernism: The Migration of Paintings of Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3364331.
Parker Brooks, Maegan, “From the Front Porch to the Platform: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3367793.
Simanga, Michael, “The Congress of African People (1970–1980): History and Memory of an Ideological Journey” (Union Institute, 2009). Order No. DA3361945.
Slate, Nico, “Reflections of Freedom: Race, Caste, and the Shared Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India, 1914–1965” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365439.
Trodd, Zoe Frances, “The Reusable Past: Abolitionist Aesthetics in the Protest Literature of the Long Civil Rights Movement” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365471.
Battles, David M., The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South: or, Leaving behind the Plow. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009. viii, 173 pp. Paper, $44.00, ISBN isbn 978-0-8108-6247-0.)
Berger, Maurice, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xvi, 207 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-300-12131-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Christianson, Scott, Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv, 214 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03439-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07688-6.)
Cook, William W., and James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 454 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-226-78996-5.)
Duganne, Erina, The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2010. xii, 236 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-802-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Gaillard, Frye, Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. xxviii, 345 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8173-5581-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Gilroy, Paul, Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2010. 207 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-674-03570-6.)
Haggard, Dixie Ray, ed., African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives. (Santa Barbara: abc-clio, 2010. xlvi, 258 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-1-59884-123-7.)
Howland, John, Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. x, 340 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-472-11605-8. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-472-03316-4.)
Kushner, David, Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb. (New York: Walker & Company, 2009. xvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8027-1619-4.)
Lemons, Gary L., Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xvi, 221 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2755-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2756-0.)
Li, Stephanie, Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. x, 162 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2971-7.)
Pacheco, Ferdie, Tales from the 5th St. Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami’s Golden Age of Boxing. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xvi, 250 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8130-3436-2.)
Stricklin, David, Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010. xiv, 182 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-836-4.)
Williams, Richard, The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. (New York: Norton, 2009. 309 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-393-07663-9.)
Williams, Zachery, ed., Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii, 281 pp. $90.00, isbn 978-0-230-60280-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Baumann, Roland M., Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A Documentary History. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. xxii, 418 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1887-1.)
Minor, DoVeanna S. Fulton, and Reginald H. Pitts, eds., Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women’s Oral Slave Narratives. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. xiv, 317 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2965-6. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2964-9.)
Willis, Deborah, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present. (New York: Norton, 2009. xxxiv, 244 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-393-06696-8.) Heavily illustrated.
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