Recent Scholarship
Race
Baldoz, Rick, “The Racial Vectors of Empire: Classification and Competing Master Narratives in the Colonial Philippines,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 69–94.
Cho, Ji-Hyung, “Jeokkeukgeok Jochi ya ‘Yokchabyeol’ Jeongchi” (Affirmitive Action and the politics of ‘reverse discrimination’), Ewhasahak Yeongu/Ewha Historical Studies (Seoul), 36 (June 2008), 261–94. In Korean.
Garcia, Jay, “Race, Empire, and Humanism in the Work of Lillian Smith,” Radical History Review (no. 101, Spring 2008), 59–80.
Gordy, Sondra, “Through a Heroine’s Eyes: Elizabeth Huckaby and the ‘Lost Year,’” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 141–67.
Harris, Carmen V., “‘The Extension Service Is Not an Integration Agency’: The Idea of Race in the Cooperative Extension Service,” Agricultural History, 82 (Spring 2008), 193–219.
Johnson, Russell L., “Clara Bow in Free to Love (1925): Feature Films and Eugenics in the 1920s,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 1–15.
Oakley, Christopher Arris, “‘When Carolina Indians Went on the Warpath’: The Media, the Klan, and the Lumbees of North Carolina,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 55–84.
Osburn, Katherine M. B., “Mississippi Choctaws and Racial Politics,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 32–54.
Rapport, Evan, “Bill Finegan’s Gershwin Arrangements and the American Concept of Hybridity,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 2 (Nov. 2008), 507–30.
Rigal, Laura, “Black Work at the Polling Place: The Color Line in The County Election,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.
Steedman, Marek D., “How Was Race Constructed in the New South?,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 49–67.
Strickland, Jeffery, “How the Germans Became White Southerners: German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860–1880,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 52–69.
Byfield, Natalie Patricia, “The Construction of the Central Park Jogger Story: Racial Consciousness in America at the Turn of the 21st Century” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3301432.
Draper, Timothy Dean, “‘‘A Little Kingdom of Mixed Nationalities’: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in a Western Urban Community; Rock Springs, Wyoming, 1869–1929” (Northern Illinois University, 2007). Order No. DA3301626.
Estrada, Vanesa, “Racial Inequality and Homeownership Transitions in the U.S., 1968–2003” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3299547.
Fox, Craig, “Everyday Klansfolk: White Protestant Life and the kkk in 1920s Michigan” (University of York, 2008).
Garcia, Desirée J., “There’s No Place Like Home: Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900–1950” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3296047.
Hazard, Anthony Quinzales, Jr., “Postwar Anti-Racism: The United States, unesco, and ‘Race,’ 1945–1968” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300355.
Ledward, Brandon C., “Inseparably Hapa: Making and Unmaking a Hawaiian Monolith” (University of Hawai‘i, 2007). Order No. DA3302146.
Logan, Cameron, “The Constituent Landscape: History, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., 1950–1990” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295055.
Nielsen, Chris Stewart, “Whiteness Imperiled: Anti-Asian Sentiment in California, 1900–1930” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298244.
Poché, Justin D., “Religion, Race, and Rights in Catholic Louisiana, 1938–1970” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299166.
Smith, Travis R., “Race and the Shifting Economy in California’s Northern Interior” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3296183.
Sohi, Seema, “Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Empire, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3303297.
Stevenson, Kathryn Kristyna, “Scarlet Equations: Representing Black Men, White Women, 1940–1964” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298259.
Widell, Robert W., Jr., “‘To Stay and Fight’: Birmingham, Alabama, and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298932.
Brown, Nikki L. M., and Barry M. Stentiford, eds., The Jim Crow Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1, A–J: xxviii, 428 pp. Vol. 2, K–Z: 487 pp. $225.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34181-6/set.)
Levine, Robert S., Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3226-4. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5903-2.)
Luconi, Stefano, La questione razziale negli Stati Uniti dalla Ricostruzione a Barack Obama (The race question in the United States from Reconstruction to Barack Obama). (Padua: Cleup, 2008. 259 pp. €16.00, isbn 88-6129-284-0.) In Italian.
Magarrell, Lisa, and Joya Wesley, Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii, 278 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4110-5.)
Newkirk, Vann R., Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865–1941. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 206 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3928-7.)
Johnson, Suzanne Stone, and Robert Allison Johnson, eds., Bitter Freedom: William Stone’s Record of Service in the Freedmen’s Bureau. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xxxii, 117 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-766-5.)
Lawson, Steven F., ed., One America in the 21st Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xlvi, 121 pp. $20.00, isbn 978-0-300-11669-4.)
Zellner, Bob, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. (Montgomery: NewSouth, 2008. 351 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-1-58838-222-1.)
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