Recent Scholarship
African American
Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M., “African Immigrants and African-Americans: An Analysis of Voluntary African Immigration and the Evolution of Black Ethnic Politics in America,” African and Asian Studies, 8 (March 2009), 89–124.
Banner-Haley, Charles ”Pete”, “Myths and Truths: The Civil Rights Movement and African Americans on the Southern Tier of Upstate New York,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 17–26.
Berry, Mary Frances, “‘Reckless Eyeballing’: The Matt Ingram Case and the Denial of African American Sexual Freedom,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Spring 2008), 223–34.
Blue, Mary, and Vanessa Murphree, “‘Stoke the Joke’ and His ‘Self-Appointed White Critics’: A Clash of Values on Network Television News, 1966–70,” Media History (Abingdon), 15 (May 2009), 205–20.
Burt, Laura, “Vivian Harsh, Adult Education, and the Library’s Role as Community Center,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 44 (no. 2, 2009), 234–55.
Bynum, Cornelius L., “‘An Equal Chance in the Race for Life’: Reverdy C. Ransom, Socialism, and the Social Gospel Movement, 1890–1920,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Winter 2008), 1–20.
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, and Clarence Lang, “The ‘Long Movement’ as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Spring 2007), 265–88.
Chappell, David, “Uma pedra de esperança: A fé profética, o liberalismo e a morte das leis Jim Crow” (A stone of hope: Prophetic faith, liberalism, and the death of the Jim Crow laws), Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), 13 (no. 25, 2008), 64–97. In Portugese.
Chateauvert, Melinda, “Framing Sexual Citizenship: Reconsidering the Discourse on African American Families,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Spring 2008), 198–222.
Collins, Janelle, “Easing a Country’s Conscience: Little Rock’s Central High School in Film,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Fall 2008), 78–90.
Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo, “Exploring a Century of Historical Scholarship on Booker T. Washington,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Spring 2007), 239–64.
Doyle, Dennis, “‘A Fine New Child’: The Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic and Harlem’s African American Communities, 1946–1958,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64 (April 2009), 173–212.
Elliot, Mark, “The Question of Color-Blind Citizenship: Albion Tourgée, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Principles of the Niagara Movement,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (July 2008), 23–49.
Elmwood, Victoria A., “‘They Can’t Take That Away from Me’: Gendered Nationalism and Textual Sovereignty in the Autobiographies of Iceberg Slim and Malcolm X,” Soundings, 90 (Fall–Winter 2007), 245–71.
Gallagher, Julie, “Waging ‘the Good Fight’: The Political Career of Shirley Chisholm, 1953–1982,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Summer 2007), 392–416.
Guenther, Todd, “The Empire Builders: An African American Odyssey in Nebraska and Wyoming,” Nebraska History, 89 (Winter 2008), 176–200. Heavily illustrated.
Hoerl, Kristen, “Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26 (March 2009), 54–79.
Holton, Adalaine, “Decolonizing History: Arthur Schomburg’s Afrodiasporic Archive,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Spring 2007), 218–38.
Hudson, Lynn M., “Entertaining Citizenship: Masculinity and Minstrelsy in Post-emancipation San Francisco,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Spring 2008), 174–97.
Jones, Ida, “Coming of the Race: Kelly Miller and Two Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Niagara Movement Era,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (July 2008), 51–64.
Kelly, Brian, “Labor and Place: The Contours of Grassroots Black Mobilization in Reconstruction South Carolina,” Journal of Peasant Studies (London), 35 (Oct. 2008), 653–87.
Kinchy, Abby J., “African Americans in the Atomic Age: Postwar Perspectives on Race and the Bomb, 1945–1967,” Technology and Culture, 50 (April 2009), 291–315.
Kirsch, George B., “Municipal Golf and Civil Rights in the United States, 1910–1965,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Summer 2007), 371–91.
Kuryla, Peter, “Parties down at the Square amid Courtroom Melodramas: A Reconsideration of the Modern Civil Rights Movement Demonstration,” Patterns of Prejudice (London), 43 (Feb. 2009), 17–40.
Kyles, Perry L., “Resistance and Collaboration: Political Strategies within the Afro-Carolinian Slave Community, 1700–1750,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Fall 2008), 497–508.
Little, Monroe H., Jr., “More Than a Dreamer: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 523–36.
Logan, Trevon D., “Health, Human Capital, and African-American Migration before 1910,” Explorations in Economic History, 46 (April 2009), 169–85.
Materson, Lisa G., “African American Women, Prohibition, and the 1928 Presidential Election,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Spring 2009), 63–86.
McNeil, Genna Rae, “The Body, Sexuality, and Self-Defense in State vs. Joan Little, 1974–1975,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Spring 2008), 235–61.
Miller, Rebecca L., “Raised for Activism: Henrie Monteith and the Desegregation of the University of South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (April 2008), 121–47.
Nahal, Anita, and Lopez D. Matthews Jr., “African American Women and the Niagara Movement, 1905–1909,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (July 2008), 65–85.
Nama, Adilifu, “R Is for Race, Not Rocket: Black Representation in American Science Fiction Cinema,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 26 (March 2009), 155–66.
Onishi, Yuichiro, “The New Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans Forged Cross-Racial Solidarity with Japan, 1917–1922,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Spring 2007), 191–213.
Parker, Christopher S., “When Politics Becomes Protest: Black Veterans and Political Activism in the Postwar South,” Journal of Politics, 71 (Jan. 2009), 113–31.
Peavler, David J., “African Americans in Omaha and the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Summer 2008), 337–61.
Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Canter Brown Jr., “‘The Art of Gathering a Crowd’: Florida’s Pat Chappelle and the Origins of Black-Owned Vaudeville,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Spring 2007), 169–90.
Robinson, Cynthia Cole, “The Evolution of Alice Walker,” Women’s Studies, 38 (April 2009), 293–311.
Rubinowitz, Leonard S., and Kathryn Shelton, “Non-violent Direct Action and the Legislative Process: The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Federal Fair Housing Act,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 663–716.
Semmes, Clovis E., “The Origins of Chicago’s Bud Billiken Parade: Correcting Historical Misconceptions,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Winter 2008), 277–90.
Sluyter, Andrew, “The Role of Black Barbudans in the Establishment of Open-Range Cattle Herding in the Colonial Caribbean and South Carolina,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (April 2009), 330–49.
Smithers, Gregory D., “‘Black Gentleman as Good as White’: A Comparative Analysis of African American and Australian Aboriginal Political Protests, 1830–1865,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Summer 2008), 315–36.
Stek, Pam, “Muchakinock: African Americans and the Making of an Iowa Coal Town,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Winter 2009), 37–63.
Sweet, James H., “Mistaken Identities? Olaudah Equiano, Domingos Álvares, and the Methodological Challenges of Studying the African Diaspora,” American Historical Review, 114 (April 2009), 279–306.
Vincent, Charles, “‘Of Such Historical Importance . . . ’: The African American Experience in Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Spring 2009), 133–58.
Washington, Margaret, “‘From Motives of Delicacy’: Sexuality and Morality in the Narratives of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Jacobs,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 57–73.
Wilkins, Fanon Che, “The Making of Black Internationalists: sncc and Africa before the Launching of Black Power, 1960–1965,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Fall 2007), 467–90.
Williams, Chad L., “Vanguards of the New Negro: African American Veterans and Post–World War I Racial Militancy,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Summer 2007), 347–70.
Winsboro, Irvin D. S., “Give Them Their Due: A Reassessment of African Americans and Union Military Service in Florida during the Civil War,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Summer 2007), 327–46.
Wolf, Kyle D., “The Niagara Movement of 1905: A Look Back to a Century Ago,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 32 (July 2008), 9–22.
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun, “An African-Vietnamese American: Robert S. Browne, the Antiwar Movement, and the Personal/Political Dimensions of Black Internationalism,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Fall 2007), 491–515.
Baker, Courtney R., “Misrecognized: Looking at Images of Black Suffering and Death” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3315347.
Bell, Ramona J., “Competing Identities: Representations of the Black Female Sporting Body from 1960 to the Present” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3318265.
Church, Lila Teresa, “Documenting African American Community Heritage: Archival Strategies and Practices in the United States” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3315619.
Fanning, Sara Connors, “Haiti and the U.S.: African American Emigration and the Recognition Debate” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3311471.
Harbour, Jennifer Rebecca, “‘Bury Me in a Free Land’: African-American Political Culture and the Settlement Movement in the Antebellum and Wartime Midwest” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3323424.
Harrison, Victoria L., “Over the Horizon: Free Black Americans and Geographic Mobility in the Mid-nineteenth Century; the Case of Conway Barbour” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324168.
Helgeson, Jeffrey, “Striving in Black Chicago: Migration, Work, and the Politics of Neighborhood Change, 1935–1965” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3316730.
Johnson, Terrence Lamark, “Tragic Soul-Life: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Redemption of American Democracy” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3318333.
Peavler, David J., “Creating the Color Line and Confronting Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Middle America, 1850–1900” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3315994.
Pryor, Elizabeth Anne, “‘Jim Crow’ Cars, Passport Denials, and Atlantic Crossings: African-American Travel, Protest, and Citizenship at Home and Abroad, 1827–1865” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3319792.
Roberts, Brian Russell, “Artistic Ambassadors and African American Writing at the Nation’s Edge, 1893–1940” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3322496.
Wilson, Kellie Darice (Zenzele Isoke), “The Political Spaces of Black Women in the City: Identity, Agency, and the Flow of Social Capital in Newark, N.J.” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319703.
Charters, Samuel, A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. x, 352 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4358-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4380-6.)
Covin, David, Black Politics after the Civil Rights Movement: Activity and Beliefs in Sacramento, 1970–2000. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. x, 226 pp. Paper, $49.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4258-4.)
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds., Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 595 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-19-538795-7.)
Nelson, Peter N., A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters’ Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home. (New York: Basic, 2009. xii, 291 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-465-00317-4.)
Saint-Arnaud, Pierre, African American Pioneers of Sociology, trans. Peter Feldstein. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 416 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-802-09122-2.)
Hayman, Robert L., Jr., and Leland Ware, eds., Choosing Equality: Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xiv, 391 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-271-03433-1.)
Lewis, Catherine M., and J. Richard Lewis, eds., Jim Crow America: A Documentary History. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xxxiv, 271 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-1-55728-894-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55728-895-0.)
Mintz, Steven, ed., African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619–1877. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xvi, 241 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-1-4051-8268-3. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-1-4051-8267-6.)
Norment, Nathaniel, Jr., ed., The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xlviii, 454 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03408-4. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-07610-7.)
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