Recent Scholarship
African American
Adams, Luther, “‘Headed for Louisville’: Rethinking Rural to Urban Migration in the South, 1930–1950,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Winter 2006), 407–30.
Araki, Keiko, “Daiichiji sekai taisengo ni okeru beikoku kokujin no ‘Nihon’kan” (The Garvey movement and African American views of Japan after World War I), Hogaku seijigaku kenkyu (Tokyo), 66 (2005), 69–95. In Japanese.
Arnesen, Eric, “No ‘Graver Danger’: Black Anticommunism, the Communist Party, and the Race Question,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 3 (Winter 2006), 13–52.
Bay, Mia, “In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-dna Era,” Reviews in American History, 34 (Dec. 2006), 407–26.
Black, Samuel W., “Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam War,” Western Pennsylvania History, 89 (Winter 2006–2007), 22–31. Heavily illustrated.
Broughton, Timothy, “The Birth of the Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, Alabama,” New England Journal of History, 63 (Fall 2006), 23–48.
Davis, Cyprian, “Black Catholics in the Civil Rights Movement in the Southern United States: A. P. Tureaud, Thomas Wyatt Turner, and Earl Johnson,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Fall 2006), 69–81.
Dudley, Tara, “Seeking the Ideal African-American Interior: The Walker Residences and Salon in New York,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 14 (Fall–Winter 2006–2007), 80–112.
Farland, Maria, “W. E. B. Du Bois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift,” American Quarterly, 58 (Dec. 2006), 1017–45.
Gaines, Kevin, “The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Jan. 2007), 57–64. Heavily illustrated.
Jenkins, Earnestine, “The ‘Voice of Memphis’: wdia, Nat D. Williams, and Black Radio Culture in the Early Civil Rights Era,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Fall 2006), 254–67. Heavily illustrated.
Jones, Thomas L., “The Union League Club and New York’s First Black Regiments in the Civil War,” New York History, 87 (Summer 2006), 313–43.
K’Meyer, Tracy E., “The Louisville Civil Rights Movement’s Response to the Southern Red Scare,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 104 (Spring 2006), 217–48.
Klimke, Martin, “Black Panther, die raf, und die Rolle der Black Panther-Solidaritätskomitees” (The Black Panthers, the raf, and the role of the Black Panther solidarity committees), in Die raf und der linke Terrorismus (The raf and leftist terrorism), ed. Wolfgang Kraushaar, 562–82. (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006. 1,344 pp. €78.00, isbn 978-3936096651.) In German.
LeForge, Judy Bussell, “State Colored Conventions of Tennessee, 1865–1866,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Fall 2006), 230–53. Heavily illustrated.
Lovejoy, Paul E., “Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 27 (Dec. 2006), 317–47.
Mitchell, Patricia Pugh, “Negating the Nadir: ‘The Smoky City’ Newspaper Series as a Forum for Black Perspectives,” Western Pennsylvania History, 89 (Winter 2006–2007), 32–47. Heavily illustrated.
Moore, Cecilia A., “‘To Serve Through Compelling Love’: The Society of Christ the King in Danville, Virginia, 1963,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 24 (Fall 2006), 83–103.
Murata, Katsuyuki, “Sai ga kirimusubu ‘kuroi wareware’” (“We, blacks” articulated through difference), Americashi-kenkyu (Tokyo), 28 (2005), 58–75. In Japanese.
Nakamura, Masako Sasamoto, “Kan taiheiyo sekai to W.E.B. Du Boisu no jiko keisei” (The trans-Atlantic world and the self-formation of W.E.B. Du Bois), Americashi-kenkyu (Tokyo), 28 (2005), 38–57. In Japanese.
Rommel-Ruiz, W. Bryan, “Colonizing the Black Atlantic: The African Colonization Movements in Postwar Rhode Island and Nova Scotia,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 27 (Dec. 2006), 349–65.
Samuels, Ellen, “‘A Complication of Complaints’: Untangling Disability, Race, and Gender in William and Ellen Craft’s Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom,” Melus, 31 (Fall 2006), 15–47.
Seiler, Cotton, “‘So That We as a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By’: African American Automobility and Cold-War Liberalism,” American Quarterly, 58 (Dec. 2006), 1091–1117.
Takahashi, Hitoshi, “Nanboku doreisei hikakuron saiko” (The Tannenbaum-Elkins thesis reconsidered), Americashi-kenkyu (Tokyo), 28 (2005), 5–22. In Japanese.
Takei, Hiroshi, “Toranburo paka homuzu sodo to ‘kyodotai no boryoku’” (Trumbull Park Homes disturbances and “communal violence”), Americashi-kenkyu (Tokyo), 28 (2005), 92–110. In Japanese.
Tuma, Michael W., “Ethnoarchaeology of Subsistence Behaviors within a Rural African American Community: Implications for Interpreting Vertebrate Faunal Data from Slave Quarters Areas of Antebellum Plantation Sites,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 4, 2006), 1–26.
Warshauer, Matthew, “Andrew Jackson: Chivalric Slave Master,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Fall 2006), 203–29. Heavily illustrated.
Williams, Keira V., “A Case of ‘Southern Civility’: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Tulane University,” Louisiana History, 47 (Fall 2006), 417–33.
Young, Darius J., “Henry S. Harmon: Pioneer African American Attorney in Reconstruction-Era Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Fall 2006), 177–96.
Abruzzo, Margaret Nicola, “Polemical Pain: Slavery, Suffering, and Sympathy in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moral Debate” (University of Notre Dame, 2005). Order No. DA3214116.
Berry, Keith W., “Charles S. Johnson, Fisk University, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1945–1970” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3216577.
Braggs, Rashida Kamilah, “‘American’ Jazz: Traversing Race and Nation in Postwar France” (Northwestern University, 2006). Order No. DA3213043.
Brown, Deloris Wallace Bennett, “The Founding and Evolution of a School for the Boys Choir of Harlem: Choir Academy of Harlem” (Fordham University, 2006). Order No. DA3210260.
Burnley, Lawrence A. Q., “Resistance, Control, and the Cost of Unity: The Role of African Americans in the Founding of African American Schools Associated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the South, 1865–1914” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3211044.
Chapman, Erin D., “To Be Young, a Woman, and Colored: Gender, Popular Culture, and Politics in the New Negro Era” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214190.
Coulibaly, Sylvie, “Kelly Miller, 1895–1939: Portrait of an African American Intellectual” (Emory University, 2006). Order No. DA3212345.
Esworthy, Barrett David, “Freedom from Want: Blacks and the Struggle against Inequality in Buffalo, New York, 1930–1960” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3213942.
Goldberg, David A., “Courage under Fire: African American Firefighters and the Struggle for Racial Equality” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3212729.
Hayes, Robin J., “‘I used the term “Negro” and I was firmly corrected’: African Independence, Black Power, and Channels of Diasporic Resistance” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214221.
Kawashima, Masaki, “Chiiki toso to Amerika shakai: Shiminken undoshi jyosetsu” (Local struggles and American society: A history of the civil rights movement) (Kyoto University, Japan, 2006). In Japanese.
King, Marvin, “A Black/Non-Black Theory of African-American Partisanship: Hospitality, Racial Consciousness, and the Republican Party” (University of North Texas, 2006). Order No. DA3214484.
Munsfield, Michael William, “‘A slide, a swing, and an oak tree’: Maysville, Alabama, and the Birth of an African-American Community” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3210464.
Palmer, David Thomas, “‘Counterpunch the Devil with the Word’: African American Daily Life at Alma and Riverlake Plantation, Louisiana, 1870–1940” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3211474.
Rodriguez, Besenia, “Beyond Nation: The Formation of a Tricontinental Discourse” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214282.
Tillman, Gregory Anthony, “Hoopla in Harlem! The Renaissance of African American Art and Culture: A Rhetorical Criticism of Artists as Social Activists during the 1920’s and 1930’s; Engaging the Philosophical Discourse of Kenneth Burke” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3216656.
Arnesen, Eric, ed., The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights since Emancipation. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 312 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-252-03145-8. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-252-07380-0.)
Bacon, Margaret Hope, But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xiv, 279 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7007-7.)
Black, Samuel W., ed., Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era. (Pittsburgh: Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, 2006. xx, 218 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 0-936340-15-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-936340-14-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Cromwell, Adelaide M., Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692–1972. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xviii, 348 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1676-2.)
Glisson, Susan M., ed., The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $72.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4408-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4409-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Hinks, Peter, and John McKivigan, eds., Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, A–I: xlviii, 379 pp. Vol. 2, J–Z: 415 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 978-0-313-33142-8/set.)
Jarrett, Gene Andrew, Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 223 pp. $47.50, isbn 978-0-8122-3973-7.)
Jeffries, Judson L., ed., Black Power in the Belly of the Beast. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xiv, 319 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03148-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07394-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Kimbrough, Natalie, Equality or Discrimination? African Americans in the U.S. Military during the Vietnam War. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. x, 186 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-7618-3672-8.)
Raphael-Hernandez, Heike, and Shannon Steen, eds., AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xxiv, 342 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7580-6. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7581-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Thompson, Julius E., Lynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865–1965. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007. 253 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-7864-2722-2.)
Trotter, Joe William, Jr., Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915–45. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. liv, 368 pp. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07410-3.) Second edition with new essays.
Wilson, Francille Rusan, The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xvi, 356 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-8139-2550-9.)
Young, Cynthia A., Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xviii, 307 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3679-2. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3691-4.)
Zeuske, Michael, Sklaven und Sklaverei in den Welten des Atlantiks 1400–1940. Umrisse, Anfänge, Akteure, Vergleichsfelder, und Bibliographien (Slaves and slavery in the Atlantic world, 1400–1940. Sketches, beginnings, actors, fields of comparison, and bibliographies). (Münster: lit, 2006. Vol. 1, 600 pp. €29.90, isbn 3-8258-7840-6.) In German.
Cronon, E. David, Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xxiv, 278 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-299-01214-X.) Originally published in 1955.
Kuettner, Al, March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter, 1952–1968. (Sterling: Capital Books, 2006. xvi, 197 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-933102-28-3.)
McLaurin, Melton A., The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 202 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3097-0.)
Rodriguez, Junius P., ed., Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1: A–N, lii, 353 pp. Vol. 2: O–Z and Primary Documents, 393 pp. $199.95, isbn 0-313-33271-1.)
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