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Race

Clark, William A. V., “Race, Class, and Space: Outcomes of Suburban Access for Asians and Hispanics,” Urban Geography, 27 (Aug.–Sept. 2006), 489–506.

English, Linda, “Recording Race: General Stores and Race in the Late Nineteenth-Century Southwest,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Oct. 2006), 193–217.

Farland, Maria, “W. E. B. Du Bois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift,” American Quarterly, 58 (Dec. 2006), 1017–45.

Furuya, Jun, “Amerikanizumu to jinshu” (Americanism and race), in Amerikanizumu to “jinshu” (America and “race”), ed. Masaki Kawashima, 1–35. (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2005. 374 pp. ¥3,500, isbn 48158055164.) In Japanese.

Harlow, Luke E., “Neither Slavery nor Abolitionism: James M. Pendleton and the Problem of Christian Conservative Antislavery in 1840s Kentucky,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 27 (Dec. 2006), 367–89.

Harlow, Luke E., “Religion, Race, and Robert J. Breckinridge: The Ideology of an Antislavery Slaveholder, 1830–1860,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Fall 2006), 1–24.

Honeck, Mischa, “In Pursuit of ‘Freedom’: African-, Anglo-, and German-American Alliances in the Abolition Movement,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (Washington), 38 (Spring 2006), 99–117.

Jun, Helen H., “Black Orientalism: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Race and U.S. Citizenship,” American Quarterly, 58 (Dec. 2006), 1047–66.

Kido, Takayuki, “Chizome no shatsu to jinshu byodo no rinen” (The bloody shirt and the idea of racial equality), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 39 (2005), 21–42. In Japanese.

Kido, Takayuki, “Mikan no kaikaku to ‘Amerikajin’ no kyokai” (The unfinished reform and the boundary of “American”), in Amerikanizumu to “jinshu” (America and “race”), ed. Masaki Kawashima, 113–39. (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2005. 374 pp. ¥3,500, isbn 48158055164.) In Japanese.

Lee, Jacob F., “Between Two Fires: Cassius M. Clay, Slavery, and Antislavery in the Kentucky Borderlands,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Fall 2006), 50–70.

Lewthwaite, Stephanie, “Race, Paternalism, and ‘California Pastoral’: Rural Rehabilitation and Mexican Labor in Greater Los Angeles,” Agricultural History, 81 (Winter 2007), 1–35.

Mayer, Jeremy D., “Reagan and Race: Prophet of Color Blindness, Baiter of the Backlash,” in Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America’s Fortieth President, by Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer, Michael Schaller, and John W. Sloan, 70–89. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xviii, 150 pp. Cloth, $56.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1590-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1591-6.)

Omori, Kazuteru, “‘America’ o oimotomete” (Chasing the shadow of America), Americashi-kenkyu (Tokyo), 28 (2005), 23–37. In Japanese.

Takezawa, Yasuko, “Transcending the Western Paradigm of the Idea of Race,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 16 (2005), 5–30.

Tsu, Cecilia, “‘Independent of the unskilled Chinaman’: Race, Labor, and Family Farming in California’s Santa Clara Valley,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Winter 2006), 475–95.

Williams, Keira V., “A Case of ‘Southern Civility’: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Tulane University,” Louisiana History, 47 (Fall 2006), 417–33.

Yamada, Shiro, “America ni okeru hakujin no keisei” (The making of whites in America), in Hakujin to wa nanika (What does it mean to be white?), 83–94. (Tokyo: Tosui shobo, 2005. ¥2,200, isbn 4887083467.) In Japanese.

 

Ayala, Adriana, “Negotiating Race Relations through Activism: Women Activists and Women’s Organizations in San Antonio, Texas during the 1920s” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3215311.

Bottoms, Donald Michael, Jr., “‘An aristocracy of color’: Race and Reconstruction in Post–Gold Rush California” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3208340.

Marshall, Ian H., “Rhetorics of Whiteness: Race, Class, and the Development of Early American Modernism” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3213163.

McDaniel, William Caleb, “Our Country Is the World: Radical American Abolitionists Abroad” (Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Order No. DA3213766.

Mellinger, Gwyneth, “Members of the Club: A Genealogy of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Diversity Initiative” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3214825.

Murphy, Sarah, “Beyond Racial Tragedy: Cross-Racial Alliances in American Novels of the 1940s” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3215211.

 

Hakujin to wa nanika (What does it mean to be white?). (Tokyo: Tosui shobo, 2005. ¥2,200, isbn 4887083467.) In Japanese.

Cornell, Stephen, and Douglas Hartmann, Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. (Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge, 2007. xxii, 311 pp. Paper, $41.95, isbn 978-1-4129-4110-5.) Second edition.

Kawashima, Masaki, ed., Amerikanizumu to “jinshu” (America and “race”). (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2005. 374 pp. ¥3,500, isbn 48158055164.) In Japanese. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Krenn, Michael L., The Color of Empire: Race and American Foreign Relations. (Dulles: Potomac, 2006. xvi, 147 pp. Cloth, $38.00, isbn 978-1-57488-802-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57488-803-4.)

Rucker, Walter, and James Nathaniel Upton, eds., Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, A–M: lxvi, 432 pp. Vol. 2, N–Z and Primary Documents: 497 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 978-0-313-33300-2/set.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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