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Race

Brody, Jennifer D., and Sharon P. Holland, “An/Other Case of New England Underwriting: Negotiating Race and Property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 31–56. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

Chang, David A. Y. O., “Where Will the Nation Be at Home? Race, Nationalisms, and Emigration Movements in the Creek Nation,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 80–99. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

Collins, Robert Keith, “Katimih o Sa Chata Kiyou (Why Am I Not Choctaw)? Race in the Lived Experiences of Two Black Choctaw Mixed-Bloods,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 260–72. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

Fiskin, Shelley Fisher, “Race and the Politics of Memory: Mark Twain and Paul Laurence Dunbar,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 283–309.

Goldstone, Dwonna, “‘To exclude as many Negro undergraduates as possible’: Brown v. Board of Education and the University of Texas at Austin,” Du Bois Review, 2 (Sept. 2005), 209–26.

Gutiérrez, Ramón A., “Internal Colonialism: An American Theory of Race,” Du Bois Review, 1 (Sept. 2004), 281–95.

Hansen, Bradley A., and Mary Eschelbach Hansen, “New Evidence on Race Discrimination under ‘Separate But Equal,’” Essays in Economic and Business History, 24 (2006), 120–32.

Kenny, Michael G., “A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 61 (Oct. 2006), 456–91.

McKinney, Tiffany M., “Race and Federal Recognition in Native New England,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 57–79. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

Naylor, Celia E., “‘Playing Indian’? The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997–1998,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 145–63. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

Purcell, Fernando, “Hanging Bodies, Slashed Ears, and Bottled Heads: Lynching, Punishment, and Race in the California Gold Rush, 1848–1853,” Hagar (Negev), 6 (no. 2, 2006), 85–97.

Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, et al., “Documenting Desegregation: Segregation in American Workplaces by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex, 1966–2003,” American Sociological Review, 71 (Aug. 2006), 565–88.

 

Bernard, Louise, “National Maladies: Narratives of Race and Madness in Modern America” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3194624.

Bullard, Katharine Sara, “Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3198935.

Du Rocher Wilson, Kristina A., “Lessons in Black and White: The Racial and Gender Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South, 1887–1939” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3198980.

Jennison, Watson Woodson, III, “Cultivating Race: Slavery and Expansion in Georgia, 1750–1860” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3202679.

Johansen, Bruce Richard, “Imagined Pasts, Imagined Futures: Race, Politics, Memory, and the Revitalization of Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3202411.

Martyn, Terese, “The Changing Interpretations of American Slavery: Historical Perspectives of the 1990s” (Drew University, 2005). Order No. DA3199683.

Newman, Joshua Isaac, “Dixie’s Last Stand: Ole Miss, the Body, and the Spectacle of Dixie South Whiteness” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3202432.

Newman, Raybon Joel, “Race and Assemblies of God Church: The Journey from Azusa Street to the ‘Miracle of Memphis’” (University of Memphis, 2005). Order No. DA3199488.

 

Ball, Howard, Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xvi, 254 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1461-3.)

Williams, Vernon J., Jr, The Social Sciences and Theories of Race. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 151 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03086-4. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07320-5.)

 

Scott, Ann Firor, ed., Pauli Murray & Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 194 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3055-0.)

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