Recent Scholarship
African American
Aiyetoro, Adjoa Artis, “Truth Matters: A Call for the American Bar Association to Acknowledge Its Past and Make Reparations to African Descendants,” George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, 18 (Fall 2007), 51–105.
Armitage, Katie H., “‘Seeking a Home Where He Himself Is Free’: African Americans Build a Community in Douglas County, Kansas,” Kansas History, 31 (Autumn 2008), 154–75.
Bly, Antonio T., “Navigating the Print Line: Shaping Readers’ Expectations in Booker T. Washington’s Autobiographies,” Alabama Review, 61 (July 2008), 190–215.
Brigham, David R., “Breaking the ‘Chain of Segregation’: The Pyramid Club Annual Exhibitions,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 3–17.
Carson, Scott Alan, “The Effect of Geography and Vitamin D on African American Stature in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from Prison Records,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 812–31.
Chen, Anthony S., Robert W. Mickey, and Robert P. Van Houweling, “Explaining the Contemporary Alignment of Race and Party: Evidence from California’s 1946 Ballot Initiative on Fair Employment,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 204–28.
Davis, Nancy M., “A Lutta Continua: Black Catholic Activism in Detroit, Michigan in the 1970s,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Summer 2008), 15–32.
DeLong, Amy, “Change from the Inside Out: The Contribution of Memphis Catholics in Civil Rights Activism, 1961–1968,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 125–46.
Fagan, Ben, “Reclaiming Revolution: William Wells Brown’s Irreducible Haitian Heroes,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 367–83.
Freeman, Damon, “Kenneth B. Clark and the Problem of Power,” Patterns of Prejudice (London), 42 (Sept. 2008), 413–37.
Hanson, Michael, “Suppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism, and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 27 (Oct. 2008), 341–65.
Heitner, Devorah, “The Good Side of the Ghetto: Visualizing Black Brooklyn, 1968–1971,” Velvet Light Trap, 62 (Fall 2008), 48–61.
Higuchi, Hayumi, “Shiroi hada no kokujin” (Portraits of Alex Manly: A white skinned ‘Negro’ in the Jim Crow era), Senshu Jinbun Ronshu (Tokyo), 79 (2006), 1–28. In Japanese.
Honsa, Thomas P., “Doing the Job: The 1964 Desegregation of the Florida Army National Guard,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Summer 2008), 50–70.
Hummon, David M., “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: Reconstructing the Ladder in African American Spirituals,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (June 2008), 164–74.
Johnson, Violet M. Showers, “‘What, Then, Is the African American?’ African and Afro-Caribbean Identities in Black America,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 77–103.
Junger, Richard, “‘God and Man Helped Those Who Helped Themselves’: John and Mary Jones and the Culture of African American Self-Sufficiency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Summer 2008), 111–32.
Kiel, Daniel, “Exploded Dream: Desegregation in the Memphis City Schools,” Law and Inequality, 26 (Summer 2008), 261–303.
Lock, Graham, “Blues on the Brush: Rose Piper’s Blues and Negro Folk Songs Paintings of the 1940s,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 18–29.
Lowe, Theodore M., “Racial Politics in Dallas in the Twentieth Century,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 27–41.
Macki, Adrienne C., “(Re)constructing Community and Identity: Harlem Experimental Theatre and Social Protest,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 107–39.
Matory, J. Lorand, “Islands Are Not Isolated: Reconsidering the Roots of Gullah Distinctiveness,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 232–44. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.)
McDuffie, Erik S., “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War,” Radical History Review (no. 101, Spring 2008), 81–106.
Mihelich, Dennis N., “From the Depths: Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska, 1930–1960,” Nebraska History, 89 (Spring 2008), 14–25.
Newman, Richard S., “Faith in the Ballot: Black Shadow Politics in the Antebellum North,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.
Pethers, Matthew, “Talking Books, Selling Selves: Rereading the Politics of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative,” American Studies, 48 (Spring 2007), 101–34.
Phu, T. N., “Shooting the Movement: Black Panther Party Photography and African American Protest Traditions,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 1, 2008), 165–89.
Powell, John P., and Stephen Menendian, “Little Rock and the Legacy of Dred Scott,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1153–90.
Price-Spratlen, Townsand, “Urban Destination Selection among African Americans during the 1950s Great Migration,” Social Science History, 32 (Fall 2008), 437–69.
Ruffins, Fath Davis, “The Paradox of Preservation: Gullah Language, Culture, and Imagery,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 216–31. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.)
Rutkowski, Alice, “Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 83–104.
Santoro, Wayne A., “The Civil Rights Movement and the Right to Vote: Black Protest, Segregationist Violence, and the Audience,” Social Forces, 86 (June 2008), 1391–1414.
Seigel, Peggy, “Pushing the Color Line: Race and Employment in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1933–1963,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (Sept. 2008), 241–76.
Strauss, David A., “Little Rock and the Legacy of Brown,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1065–86.
Van Der Horn-Gibson, Jodi, “Dismantling Americana: Sambo, Shirley Graham, and African Nationalism,” Americana, 7 (Spring 2008), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Walker, Susannah, “‘Independent Livings’ or ‘No Bed of Roses’? How Race and Class Shaped Beauty Culture as an Occupation for African American Women from the 1920s to the 1960s,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 60–83.
Young, Harvey, “‘A New Fear Known to Me’: Emmett Till’s Influence and the Black Panther Party,” Southern Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2008), 22–47.
Boyd, Tim, “‘Out of the Shadows’: Southern Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South, 1946–1976” (Vanderbilt University, 2007). Order No. DA3293862.
Buccola, Nicholas, “In Pursuit of Liberty: The Civic Liberalism of Frederick Douglass” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291819.
Bynum, Tommy L., “‘Our Fight Is for Right’: The naacp Youth Councils and College Chapters’ Crusade for Civil Rights, 1936–1965” (Georgia State University, 2007). Order No. DA3293815.
Cavazos, Mary K., “Queen’s Daughters: African American Women, Christian Mission and Racial Change, 1940–1960” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3294228.
Demczuk, Bernard, “Unionville: Race, Time, Place, and Memory in Talbot County, Maryland, 1634–1892” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3297198.
Hopkinson, Natalie Adele, “Go-Go Live: Washington, D.C.’s Cultural Information Network, Drumming the News, Knitting Communities, and Guarding a Black Public Sphere” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297264.
Jackson-Weaver, Karen, “Lift Every Voice: Black Women’s Invisible Leadership and Faith during the Civil Rights Era, 1955–1965” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299314.
Johnson, Lynn R., “Traumas of the Middle Passage: The Foundations of Narrative and Political Discourse in 19th-Century African American Literature” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300357.
Owens, A. Nevell, “Rhetoric of Identification: Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298922.
Randolph, Sherie M., “‘Alliance of the Alienated’: Florynce ‘Flo’ Kennedy and Black Feminist Politics in Post–World War II America” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296847.
Rice, Connie Park, “‘For Men and Measures’: The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Pioneer J. R. Clifford” (West Virginia University, 2007). Order No. DA3302250.
Rose, Chanelle Nyree, “Neither Southern nor Northern: Miami, Florida and the Black Freedom Struggle in America’s Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968” (University of Miami, 2007). Order No. DA3295171.
Runstedtler, Theresa E., “Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293373.
Scott, Jesse James, “Disturbing the Peace: Cultural Narratives and Reparations” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297213.
Swindall, Lindsey R., “Intersections in Theatrics and Politics: The Case of Paul Robeson and Othello” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007). Order No. DA3293931.
Tweedy, Clarence William, III, “Trauma and Self-Narration: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Identity in African American Literature, 1840–1940” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298878.
Ware, Carole M., “African/Native American Identified in Culture” (Union Institute & University, 2008). Order No. DA3302964.
Widell, Robert W., Jr., “‘To Stay and Fight’: Birmingham, Alabama, and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298932.
Ali, Omar H., In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1806-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1807-9.)
Broadnax, Samuel L., Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 180 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1774-4.)
Dyja, Thomas, Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. x, 212 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-766-4.)
Goldman, Robert M., One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xviii, 158 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1602-2. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1603-9.)
Kirk, John A., ed., Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 224 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-4039-9653-4. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-4039-9654-1.)
Lemak, Jennifer A., Southern Life, Northern City: The History of Albany’s Rapp Road Community. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xvi, 191 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7581-2.)
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.
Rael, Patrick, ed., African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. (New York: Routledge, 2008. x, 307 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-95726-7. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-415-95727-4.)
Sanders, Vivienne, Access to History: Civil Rights in the usa, 1945–68. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. vi, 178 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096583-2.)
Singer, Alan J., New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 166 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 978-0-7914-7509-6. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7510-2.)
Sweeney, Fionnghuala, Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 256 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-8463-1078-2.)
Arrington, Richard, There’s Hope for the World: The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama’s First African American Mayor. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. viii, 263 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1623-5.)
Baszile, Jennifer, The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 310 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-4165-4327-5.)
Davis, Cynthia, and Verner D. Mitchell, eds., Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3956-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3975-3.)
Hahn, Steven, et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867; Series 3, vol. 1: Land and Labor, 1365. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xxxiv, 1073 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3147-2.)
Yellin, Jean Fagan, ed., The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Vol 1: lxxxii, 396 pp. Vol. 2: xl, 533 pp. Cloth, $125.00/set, isbn 978-0-8078-3131-1/set.) Inlcudes cd.
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