Recent Scholarship
Race
Araki, Wakako, “Gender, Race, and the Idea of Separate Spheres: Neo-Abolitionist Work in South Carolina Sea Islands,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 221–38.
Banner, Lois W., “The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 4–29.
Brattain, Michelle, “Race, Racism, and Antiracism: unesco and the Politics of Presenting Science to the Postwar Public,” American Historical Review, 112 (Dec. 2007), 1386–1413.
Clavin, Matthew, “A Second Haitian Revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Making of the American Civil War,” Civil War History, 54 (June 2008), 117–45.
Cummins, Amy, “‘Loyal and Devoted Attachment’: Anti-Abolition Rhetoric by Southern Women of Letters, 1852–1860,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 13–27.
Davis, Timothy, “Race and Sports in America: An Historical Overview,” Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 7 (Spring 2008), 291–311.
Fink, Deborah, “Who Are We? Race and Ethnicity in a 1950s Nebraska Town,” Nebraska History, 88 (Winter 2007), 110–25. Heavily illustrated.
Gray, Elizabeth Kelly, “‘Whisper to Him the Word “India”’: Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830–1860,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 379–406.
Hochschild, Jennifer L., and Brenna Marea Powell, “Racial Reorganization and the United States Census, 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (March 2008), 59–96.
Jackson, Lawrence Patrick, “Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton in the 1940s: Crusaders for the Racial Left,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 76–97.
Kamphoefner, Walter D., “The Handwriting on the Wall: The Klan, Language Issues, and Prohibition in the German Settlements of Eastern Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (July 2008), 53–66.
Kaneko, Ayumu, “‘Kokujin reipisuto no shinwa’ no poritikusu: 20-seiki Amerika ni okeru jinshu-boryoku, jenda, kaikyu” (The politics of the ‘black rapist myth’: American racial violence, gender, and class in the 20th century), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 5–17. In Japanese.
Lee, Julia H., “Estrangement on a Train: Race and Narratives of American Identity,” English Literary History, 75 (Summer 2008), 345–65.
Manuel, Jeffrey T., “The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music’s ‘Social Origins,’” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Oct. 2008), 417–31.
Nystrom, Justin, “In My Father’s House: Relationships and Identity in an Interracial New Orleans Creole Family, 1845–1875,” Louisiana History, 49 (Summer 2008), 287–313.
Smith, Eric Ledell, “The 1917 Race Riot in Chester, Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 171–96.
Aiséirithe, A. J., “Piloting the Car of Human Freedom: Abolitionism, Woman Suffrage, and the Problem of Radical Reform, 1860–1870” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3287023.
Bonillas, Luisa Elena, “Pushing for Change: Women of Color at Wellesley College, 1966–2001” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287915.
Campney, Brent MacDonald Stevenson, “‘And This in Free Kansas’: Racist Violence, Black and White Resistance, Geographical Particularity, and the ‘Free State’ Narrative in Kansas, 1865 to 1914” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279862.
HoSang, Daniel Wei, “Racial Propositions: ‘Genteel Apartheid’ in Postwar California” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278358.
Kenna, Laura Cook, “Dangerous Men, Dangerous Media: Constructing Ethnicity, Race, and Media’s Impact through the Gangster Image, 1959–2007” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3289118.
Smith, Philip Matthew, “Persistent Borderland: Freedom and Citizenship in Territorial Florida” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3281155.
Sumchai, Mujahidun, “Race Evolution n America: Myth and/or Reality, 1619–1996 (347 years)” (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007). Order No. DA3288593.
Weiner, Dana Elizabeth, “Racial Radicals: Antislavery Activism in the Old Northwest, 1830–1861” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3278073.
Winfield, Michael J., “Marriage and the Legal Construction of Race in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, 1850–1914; A Comparative Analysis” (St. John’s University, New York, 2007). Order No. DA3282356.
Yellin, Eric Steven, “In the Nation’s Service: Racism and Federal Employees in Woodrow Wilson’s Washington” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3281326.
Jacobson, Robin Dale, The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxviii, 190 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8166-5027-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5029-6.)
Messer-Kruse, Timothy, Race Relations in the United States, 1980–2000. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xvi, 173 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-34311-7.)
Ronda, Bruce A., Reading the Old Man: John Brown in American Culture. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 218 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57233-620-9.)
Stowe, Gene, Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie’s Will. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. xii, 309 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-57806-864-9.)
West, Stephen A., From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xiv, 261 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2699-5.)
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