Recent Scholarship
African American
Ashton, Susanna, “Entitles: Booker T. Washington’s Signs of Play,” Southern Literary Journal, 39 (Spring 2007), 1–23.
Bacon, Jacqueline, “‘Acting as Freemen’: Rhetoric, Race, and Reform in the Debate over Colonization in Freedom’s Journal, 1827–1828,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93 (Feb. 2007), 58–83.
Behnken, Brian D., “The ‘Dallas Way’: Protest, Response, and the Civil Rights Experience in Big D and Beyond,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (July 2007), 1–29.
Biondi, Martha, “How New York Changes the Story of the Civil Rights Movement,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (July 2007), 15–32.
Blanck, Emily, “The Legal Emancipations of Leander and Caesar: Manumission and the Law in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Aug. 2007), 235–54.
Breaux, Richard M., “‘We Were All Mixed Together’: Race, Schooling, and the Legacy of Black Teachers in Buxton, 1900–1920,” Annals of Iowa, 65 (Fall 2006), 301–28.
Butler, J. Michael, “‘More Negotiation and Less Demonstrations’: The naacp, sclc, and Racial Conflict in Pensacola, 1970–1978,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Summer 2007), 70–92.
Dawson, Hilary J., “From Immigrant to Establishment: A Black Family’s Journey,” Ontario History (Willowdale), 99 (Spring 2007), 31–43.
Demas, Lane, “Sport History, Race, and the College Gridiron: A Southern California Turning Point,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Summer 2007), 169–93.
Dolan, Mark K., “Extra! Chicago Defender Race Records Ads Show South from Afar,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Fall 2007), 106–24.
Duck, Leigh Anne, “Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Comparative Literature,” Safundi, 8 (Jan. 2007), http://www.safundi.com.
Eisenstadt, Peter, “Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (July 2007), 33–60.
Farred, Grant, “America’s Africa: Barack Obama and the Aporia of Race,” Safundi, 8 (Jan. 2007), http://www.safundi.com.
Frost, Karolyn Smardz, “Communities of Resistance: African Canadians and African Americans in Antebellum Toronto,” Ontario History (Willowdale), 99 (Spring 2007), 44–63.
Gardner, Eric, “‘Face to Face’: Localizing Lucy Delaney’s From the Darkness Cometh the Light,” Legacy, 24 (no. 1, 2007), 50–71.
Guelzo, Allen C., “Lincoln, Race, and Slavery: A Biographical Overview,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Oct. 2007), 14–17.
Haram, Kerstyn M., “The Palmetto Leader’s Mission to End Lynching in South Carolina: Black Agency and the Black Press in Columbia, 1925–1940,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (Oct. 2006), 310–33.
Jasinski, James, “Constituting Antebellum African American Identity: Resistance, Violence, and Masculinity in Henry Highland Garnet’s 1843 ‘Address to the Slaves,’” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93 (Feb. 2007), 27–57.
Kelley, Sean, “A Texas Peasantry? Black Smallholders in the Texas Sugar Bowl, 1865–1890,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Aug. 2007), 193–209.
Kelly, Brian, “Industrial Sentinels Confront the ‘Rabid Faction’: Black Elites, Black Workers, and the Labor Question in the Jim Crow South,” in The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights since Emancipation, ed. Eric Arnesen, 94–121. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 319 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03145-8. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07380-9.)
Kytle, Ethan J., “From Body Reform to Reforming the Body Politic: Transcendentalism and the Militant Antislavery Career of Thomas Wentworth Higginson,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (Sept. 2007), 325–50.
Lackner, Joseph H., “The American Catholic Tribune: No Other Like It,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Summer 2007), 1–24.
Mackey, Thomas C., “‘That All Mankind Should Be Free’: Lincoln and African Americans,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Oct. 2007), 24–29.
Newman, Mark, “The Catholic Church in Arkansas and Desegregation, 1946–1988,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2007), 293–319.
Norman, Matthew, “From an ‘Abolition City’ to the Color Line: Galesburg, Knox College, and the Legacy of Antislavery Activism,” Journal of Illinois History, 10 (Spring 2007), 2–26.
Perlstein, Daniel, “The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (July 2007), 89–120.
Prince, Bryan, “The Case of Isaac Brown: Fugitive Slave,” Ontario History (Willowdale), 99 (Spring 2007), 18–30.
Purnell, Brian, “‘Taxation Without Sanitation Is Tyranny’: Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York during the Fall of 1962,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (July 2007), 61–88.
Quispel, Chris, “The Dual Disadvantage of Race: Black Mayors after the Civil Rights Movement,” in Who’s the Boss? Leadership and Democratic Culture in America, ed. Hans Krabbendam and Wil Verhoeven, 99–112. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2007. 220 pp. Paper, €37.50, isbn 978-90-8659-073-5.)
Rose, Chanelle, “The ‘Jewel’ of the South? Miami, Florida, and the naacp’s Struggle for Civil Rights in America’s Vacation Paradise,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Summer 2007), 39–69.
Roth, Sarah N., “‘How a Slave was Made a Man’: Negotiating Black Violence and Masculinity in Antebellum Slave Narratives,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Aug. 2007), 255–76.
Rugemer, Edward B., “Robert Monroe Harrison, British Abolition, Southern Anglophobia, and Texas Annexation,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Aug. 2007), 169–92.
Sasaki, Takahiro, “Amerika gasshukoku nanbu shakai ni okeru kokujin kazoku no seiritsu katei to boryoku” (Emancipation, family, and violence), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 40 (2006), 1–17. In Japanese.
Shelton, Robert S., “Slavery in a Texas Seaport: The Peculiar Institution in Galveston,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Aug. 2007), 155–68.
Tadman, Michael, “The Reputation of the Slave Trader in Southern History and the Social Memory of the South,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (Sept. 2007), 247–71.
Taylor, Clarence, “Robert Wagner, Milton Galamison, and the Challenge to New York City Liberalism,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (July 2007), 121–38.
Turner, John G., “A ‘Black-White’ Missionary on the Imperial Stage: William H. Sheppard and Middle-Class Black Manhood,” Journal of Southern Religion, 9 (2006), http://jsr.fsu.edu/.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani, “African Americans in Burlington, Vermont, 1880–1900,” Vermont History, 75 (Summer–Fall 2007), 101–23.
Whitmire, Ethelene, “Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 42 (no. 4, 2007), 409–21.
Youngblood, Joshua, “‘Haven’t Quite Shaken the Horror’: Howard Kester, the Lynching of Claude Neal, and Social Activism in the South during the 1930s,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Summer 2007), 3–38.
Britt, Willie Lee, “A Comparative Analysis of Black Youth Employment in Oakland and San Francisco, California (1950–1990)” (Golden Gate University, 2006). Order No. DA3247170.
Campbell, Marne Lyn, “Heaven’s Ghetto? African Americans and Race in Los Angeles, 1850–1917” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3249399.
Corrigan, Lisa Marie, “Reimagining Black Power: Prison Manifestos and the Strategies of Regeneration in the Rewriting of Black Identity, 1969–2002” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3241539.
Danielson, Christopher Alan, “The Voting Rights Act and the Creation of Black Politics in Mississippi, 1965–1986” (University of Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3246003.
Diggs, Soyica Senta, “From Repetition to Reproduction: African American Drama in the African American Literary Tradition” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2006). Order No. DA3240207.
Frost, Julieanna, “Teaching the Pure Gospel: The Life of Rosa Jinsey Young” (Union Institute & University, 2007). Order No. DA3250483.
Grant, John Wess, “The Limitations of Free Black Communities and Post-Colonial Nationalism: A Comparative History of the Richmond, Virginia and Monrovia, Liberia Black Communities, 1817–1870” (Michigan State University, 2006). Order No. DA3248551.
Guthrie, Ricardo Antonio, “Examining Political Narratives of the Black Press in the West: Dr. Carlton B. Goodlet and the San Francisco ‘Sun-Reporter’ (1950s–1960s)” (University of California, San Diego, 2006). Order No. DA3244174.
Levy, James Anders, “Narratives of Progress: Black Elites, the ‘Folk,’ and the Politics of Knowledge, 1890–1915” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2006). Order No. DA3249316.
McDaniel, Cecily Barker, “‘Fearing I shall not do my duty to my race if I remain silent’: Law and Its Call to African American Women, 1872–1932” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3247936.
Mills, Quincy Terrell, “‘Color-line’ Barbers and the Emergence of a Black Public Space: A Social and Political History of Black Barbers and Barber Shops, 1830–1970” (University of Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3240112.
Moody, Shirley C., “By Custom and by Law: Black Folklore and Racial Representation at the Birth of Jim Crow” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3241543.
Mowatt, Norman A., “The King of the Damned. Reading Lynching as Leisure: The Analysis of Lynching Photography for Examples of Violent Forms of Leisure and Places of Power” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3242947.
Pugh-Bassett, Lovell, “A Meeting of Their Minds to Control Ours: An Analysis of the 1890 and 1891 Mohonk Conferences on the Negro Question and the Creation of Selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities” (Temple University, 2006). Order No. DA3247302.
Shandell, Jonathan, “The American Negro Theatre: Staging Inter-racialism in Harlem, 1940–1949” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3242673.
Smith, David G., “On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820–1870” (Pennsylvania State University, 2006). Order No. DA3248399.
Smith, Thomas E., “Reform and Empire: The British and American Transnational Search for the Rights of Black People in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2007). Order No. DA3243738.
Tomek, Beverly C., “Seeking a Manageable Population: Limitation, Colonization, and Black Resistance in Pennsylvania’s Antislavery Movement” (University of Houston, 2006). Order No. DA3242263.
Wilson, Mabel O., “Making History Visible: World’s Fairs, Expositions, and Museums in the Black Metropolis, 1895–1995” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3247400.
Crowder, Ralph L., John Edward Bruce: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. x, 243 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8147-1518-4.)
Freyer, Tony A., Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1535-3. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1536-0.)
Glasrud, Bruce A., and Michael N. Searles, Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. viii, 319 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-1-58544-612-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-620-9.)
Holland, Jesse J., Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C. (Guilford: Globe Pequot, 2007. xvi, 192 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-7627-4536-4.)
Kirk, John A., Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. xvi, 213 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-1-55728-850-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55728-851-6.)
Klein, Herbert S., and Ben Vinson III, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xx, 286 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-19-518941-4. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-19-518942-1.) Second edition. Originally published in 1986.
Seraile, William, Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings of John Edward Bruce. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xiv, 260 pp. $34.00, isbn 1-57233-210-7.)
Westheider, James E., The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xxii, 177 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4531-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4532-8.)
Freedman, Eric, and Stephen A. Jones, African Americans in Congress: A Documentary History. (Washington: cq, 2008. xviii, 574 pp. $115.00, isbn 978-0-87289-385-6.)
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, eds., The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiv, 591 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-691-12651-7. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-12652-4.)
Hilliard, David, ed., The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service. (New York: Atria, 2007. xxiv, 152 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3259-0.) Heavily illustrated. Includes dvd.
Lewis, Catherine M., and J. Richard Lewis, eds., Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. xxxiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-1-55728-856-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55728-857-8.)
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