Recent Scholarship
African American
Baker, Courtney, “Emmett Till, Justice, and the Task of Recognition,” Journal of American Culture, 29 (June 2006), 111–24.
Boyd, Robert L., “Was the Ministry an Ethnic Niche for Urban Blacks in the Early Twentieth Century?,” Social Science Journal, 43 (no. 3, 2006), 335–42.
Brasfield, Curtis G., “Tracing Slave Ancestors: Batchelor, Bradley, Branch, and Wright of Desha County, Arkansas,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 92 (March 2004), 6–30.
Campbell, Gwyn, “Children and Slavery in the New World: A Review,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 27 (Aug. 2006), 261–85.
Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, “Children in European Systems of Slavery: Introduction,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 27 (Aug. 2006), 163–82.
Campbell, John, “The Seminoles, the ‘Bloodhound War,’ and Abolitionism, 1796–1865,” Journal of Southern History, 72 (May 2006), 259–302.
Clayton, Nichola, “Managing the Transition to a Free Labor Society: American Interpretations of the British West Indies during the Civil War and Reconstruction,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 7 (March 2006), 89–108.
Collins, Lisa Gail, “Activists Who Yearn for Art That Transforms: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements in the United States,” Signs, 31 (Spring 2006), 717–52.
Cunningham, Roger D., “Kansas City’s African American ‘Immunes’ in the Spanish-American War,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (April 2006), 141–58.
Dongou, He Shunguo, “‘Zaibannongluzhi’ Zhuangyuan jingji de xinghzi wenti: Yu Meizhou nuluzhongzhiyuan jingji de chuba bijiao” (The nature of the East European “neo-serfdom” manor economy: A preliminary comparison with the American plantation slave economy), Historical Research (Beijing) (no. 4, 2003), 111–23. In Chinese.
Eslinger, Ellen, “Freedom without Independence: The Story of a Former Slave and Her Family,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 114 (no. 2, 2006), 262–91.
Farrington, Holly, “Narrating the Jazz Life: Three Approaches to Jazz Autobiography,” Popular Music and Society, 29 (July 2006), 375–86.
Frizzell, Robert W., “Southern Identity in Nineteenth-Century Missouri: Little Dixie’s Slave-Majority Areas and the Transition to Midwestern Farming,” Missouri Historical Review, 99 (April 2005), 238–60.
Gold, Kenneth M., “‘We just don’t want to keep on going to useless meetings’: Community Organizing at Detroit’s Jefferson Junior High School, 1966–1967,” Michigan Historical Review, 32 (Spring 2006), 97–121.
Ling, Peter, “Social Capital, Resource Mobilization, and Origins of the Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of Historical Sociology (Oxford), 19 (June 2006), 202–14.
Lovejoy, Paul, “The Children of Slavery—The Transatlantic Phase,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 27 (Aug. 2006), 197–217.
Mangun, Kimberley, “The (Oregon) Advocate: Boosting the Race and Portland, Too,” American Journalism, 23 (Winter 2006), 7–34.
Minchin, Timothy J., “Beyond the Dominant Narrative: The Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1968–1980,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 25 (July 2006), 65–86.
Poucher, Judith G., “Raising Her Voice: Ruth Perry, Activist and Journalist for the Miami naacp,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 84 (Spring 2006), 517–40.
Roberts, Justin, “Working between the Lines: Labor and Agriculture on Two Barbadian Sugar Plantations, 1796–97,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (July 2006), 551–86.
Robinson, Edward J., “Heaven to Hell: Samuel Robert Cassius and Black Life in Oklahoma, 1891–1923,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Spring 2006), 78–99.
Slate, Claudia S., “Battle for St. Augustine 1964: Public Record and Personal Recollection,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 84 (Spring 2006), 541–68.
Snipes, Vincent T., and Roderick D. Waters, “The Mathematics Education of African Americans in North Carolina: From the Brown Decision to No Child Left Behind,” Negro Educational Review, 56 (July 2005), 107–26.
Stern, Sheldon M., “The Atlantic Slave Trade—The Full Story,” Academic Questions, 18 (Summer 2005), 16–34.
Wagner, Bryan, “Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of Bras-Coupé,” Representations (no. 92, Fall 2005), 117–51.
Westley, Robert, “The Accursed Share: Genealogy, Temporality, and the Problem of Value in Black Reparations Discourse,” Representations (no. 92, Fall 2005), 81–116.
Willoughby, Robert J., “‘I’ll Wade in Missouri Blood’: Daggs v. Frazier—A Case of Missouri Runaway Slaves,” Missouri Historical Review, 99 (Jan. 2005), 115–38.
Baer, Frances Lisa, “Race over Rights: The Resistance to Public School Desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond, 1954–1960” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3193784.
Bolden, Jesse, “A Study of the Rise and Fall of the John McCown Liberation Movement in Hancock County, Georgia, from 1870–1976” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3189286.
Brooks, Clayton McClure, “Conversations across the Color Line: Interracial Cooperation and the Making of Segregation in Virginia, 1900–1930” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3193564.
Calihman, Matthew S., “Black Power, Black Arts, and the Memory of European Fascism” (Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3191275.
Mack, Kenneth Walter, “Race Uplift, Professional Identity, and the Transformation of Civil Rights Lawyering and Politics, 1920–1940” (Princeton University, 2005). Order No. DA3188653.
Reinhard, Rachel B., “Politics of Change: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Emergence of a Black Political Voice in Mississippi” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3190855.
Riser, Robert Volney, II, “Prelude to the Movement: Disfranchisement in Alabama’s 1901 Constitution and the Anti-disfranchisement Cases” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3193811.
Thames Leonard, Latonya, “Veneer of Civilization: Southern Lynching, Memory, and African-American Identity, 1882–1840” (University of Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3190575.
Thompson, Harold Paul, “Race, Temperance, and Prohibition in the Postbellum South: Black Atlanta, 1865–1890” (Emory University, 2005). Order No. DA3189892.
Williams, Kidada E., “In the Space of Violence: African Americans and the Dynamics of Racial Supremacy and Survival after Slavery” (University of Michigan, 2005). Order No. DA3192814.
Battle, Michael, The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirituality. (Malden: Blackwell, 2006. xx, 227 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-1-4051-1891-0. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-4051-1892-7.)
Burton, Art T., Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xx, 346 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1338-8.)
Glave, Dianne D., and Mark Stoll, eds., “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xvi, 271 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8229-4275-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8229-5899-6.)
Grose, Philip G., South Carolina at the Brink: Robert McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xxii, 360 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-624-8.)
Harris, Robert L., Jr., and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, The Columbia Guide to African American History since 1939. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiv, 442 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-231-13810-5.)
Moitt, Bernard, ed., Sugar, Slavery, and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. viii, 203 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-8130-2779-9.)
Nash, Gary B., The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 235 pp. $19.95, isbn 0-674-02193-2.)
Wright Austin, Sharon D., The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xviii, 247 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-7914-6801-2.)
Yelvington, Kevin A., ed., Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2006. xiv, 501 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 1-930618-45-X. Paper, $29.95, isbn 1-930618-46-8.)
Bigelow, John, Jamaica in 1850 or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. lxii, 214 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07327-4.) Originally published in 1851.
Brown, William J., The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R. I., with Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2006. xlvi, 136 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58465-537-4.)
Cooper, Anna Julia, Slavery and the French and Haitian Revolutionists (L’attitude de la France à L’égard de L’esclavage pendant la Révolution), trans. and ed. Frances Richardson Keller. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. vi, 161 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4474-1.) In English.
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