Recent Scholarship
African American
Aguilar Fernández, Susana, “Contexto histórico y protesta: El movimiento por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos (1933–68)” (Historical context and protest: The civil rights movement in the United States, 1933–68), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 136, April–June 2007), 11–49. In Spanish.
Andrews, Gregg, “Black Working-Class Political Activism and Biracial Unionism: Galveston Longshoremen in Jim Crow Texas, 1919–1921,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 627–68.
Blum, Edward J., “Race and Christian Scholarship: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois,” Fídes et Hístoría, 40 (Winter–Spring 2008), 25–41.
Brooks, Cecelia, “‘Touch the Bottom and Lift’: Black Women Home Extension Agents in Oklahoma, 1912–1935,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 88–108.
Canton, David, “A Dress Rehearsal for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: Raymond Pace Alexander and the Berwyn, Pennsylvania, School Desegregation Case, 1932–1935,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 260–84.
Fink, Robert C., “Semi-Professional African American Baseball in Texas before the Great Depression,” in The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology, ed. Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood, 218–30. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)
Furukawa, Tetsushi, “Afurika-kei Amerikajin to Nihon/Higashi Ajia: Sono kankeishi no igi to kadai wo kangaeru” (African American relations with Japan and/or East Asia: Toward a transnationalization of African American history and its significance), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 82–92. In Japanese.
Gustafsson, Tommy, “The Visual Re-creation of Black People in a ‘White’ Country: Oscar Micheaux and Swedish Film Culture in the 1920s,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 30–49.
Harris, Paul W., “Racial Identity and the Civilizing Mission: Double-Consciousness at the 1895 Congress on Africa,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 145–76.
Higuchi, Hayami, “Amerika gasshukoku no kioku kara kesareru furansu/Haichi kakumei no kozai: Jiyu kokujin, dorei-hoki, iju mondai wo megutte” (Merits and demerits of the Haitian revolution erased from the public memory of the U.S.: Free blacks, slave uprisings, and migration), Senshu Jinbun Ronshu (Tokyo), 80 (2007), 41–83. In Japanese.
Joseph, Peniel E., “Historians and the Black Power Movement,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 8–15.
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.
Kousser, J. Morgan, “The Strange, Ironic Career of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 1965–2007,” Texas Law Review, 86 (March 2008), 667–775.
Kraeplin, Camille, “Two Tales of One City: How Cultural Perspective Influenced the Framing of a Pre–Civil Rights Story in Dallas,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 73–97.
Krebsbach, Suzanne, “Black Catholics in Antebellum Charleston,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (April 2007), 143–59.
Longley, Neil, Todd Crosset, and Steve Jefferson, “The Migration of African-Americans to the Canadian Football League during the 1950s: An Escape from Racism?,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (Sept. 2008), 1374–97.
McCorkle, Gerald S., “Busing Comes to Dallas Schools,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 305–33.
Minchin, Timothy J., “Making Best Use of the New Laws; The naacp and the Fight for Civil Rights in the South, 1965–1975,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 669–702.
Perkiss, Abigail, “Public Accountability and the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments: A Restorative Justice Approach,” Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy, 10 (Spring 2008), 70–90.
Prentiss, Craig, “‘Terrible Laughing God’: Challenging Divine Justice in African American Antilynching Plays, 1916–1945,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 177–214.
Rivers, Larry O., “‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’: Virgil Darnell Hawkins’s Early Life and Entry into the Civil Rights Struggle,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Winter 2008), 279–308.
Robinson, Greg, “Une alliance malaisée: Nisei et Africains-Américains” (An uncomfortable alliance: Nisei and African Americans), Matériaux, 87 (Fall 2007), 49–66. In French.
Rodman, Rosamond C., “Naming a Place Nicodemus,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Winter 2008), 49–62.
Sieving, Christopher, “The Concessions of Nat Turner,” Velvet Light Trap, 61 (Spring 2008), 38–50.
Smith, Eric Ledell, “The 1917 Race Riot in Chester, Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 171–96.
Spencer, Robyn Ceanne, “Engendering the Black Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Black Womanhood and the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, California,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 90–113.
Uzoigwe, Godfrey N., “A Matter of Identity: Africa and Its Diaspora in America since 1900, Continuity and Change,” African and Asian Studies, 7 (July 2008), 259–88.
Varela, Maria, “‘If You Have Come To Help Us . . . Go Home!,’” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 67–82.
Wall, Diana diZerega, Nan A. Rothschild, and Cynthia Copeland, “Seneca Village and Little Africa: Two African American Communities in Antebellum New York City,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 97–107.
Williams, Rhonda Y., “Black Women and Black Power,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 22–26.
Williams, Yohuru, “‘Some Abstract Thing Called Freedom’: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 16–21.
Allen, Jody Lynn, “Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County, Virginia, during the Era of Disfranchisement” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3282507.
Alvarez, Thomas, “The Place Between: The New York Independent Colored Movement and the Democratic Party, 1883–1905” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287445.
Boyd, Stacy C., “Black Men Worshipping: Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279861.
Brailey, Carla D., “A Critical Analysis of Black Preachers’ Sermons in the Electronic-Digital Age (1980 to 2005): A Quest for Social Change” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283225.
Brodnax, David Junius, Sr., “‘Breathing the Freedom’s Air’: The African American Struggle for Equal Citizenship in Iowa, 1830–1900” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3284324.
Dieng, Babacar, “The Emergence of Postcolonialism in Mid-Century Novels of the African Diaspora: A Study” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283236.
Dumas, Michael J., “Sitting Next to White Children: School Desegregation in the Black Educational Imagination” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3284386.
Durham, Aisha S., “Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290225.
Gubrium, Erika K., “African American Teachers Look Back: Interpreting Participation in the 1968 Florida School Walkout” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3286868.
Harris, LaShawn Denise, “Reconstructing Respectability: The Remaking of African-American Women’s Activism, 1896–1960” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283247.
Irwin-Mulcahy, Judith, “Black Atlas: Geography and Scales of Movement in African American Literature” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288747.
Jimenez y West, Christopher D., “More than My Color: Race, Space, and Politics in Black Los Angeles, 1940–1968” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278350.
Manigault, LeRhonda S., “‘Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time’: Religion among Gullah/Geechee Women of the Carolina Lowcountry” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279884.
Reich, Paul D., “Race-ing West: Propaganda and Pedagogy in African American Fiction, Poetry, and Autobiography” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3287207.
Shelton, Vanessa, “Interpretive Community and the Black Press: Racial Equality and Politics in ‘The St. Louis American’ and ‘The St. Louis Argus,’ 1928–1956” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281406.
Stoever, Jennifer Lynn, “The Contours of the Sonic Color-Line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3283509.
Trent, Dietra Yvette, “Public Policy Preferences and Political Attitudes: Exploring the Generational Divide among African Americans” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2007). Order No. DA3285851.
Varda, Scott Joseph, “A Rhetorical History of Malcolm X” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281417.
Wilson, Rai Imani, “Foundations of Sand: Federalism, Formalism, and the Matter of Money in the African American Legal Experience, Florida, 1900–1950” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3289595.
Anderson, Elijah, ed., Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xvi, 296 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4097-9.)
Carpio, Glenda R., Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 287 pp. Cloth, $74.00, isbn 978-0-19-530470-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-19-530469-5.)
Cunningham, Roger D., The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864–1901. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xxii, 206 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1807-0.)
Glasrud, Bruce A., and James M. Smallwood, eds., The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxi, 404 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-0-89672-609-3.)
Ho, Fred, and Bill V. Mullen, eds., Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 403 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4258-8. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4281-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kawashima, Masaki, Amerika shimin-undou no rekishi: Rensasuru chiiki toso to gasshukoku shakai (A history of the American civil rights movement: Connected regional struggles and U.S. society). (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2008. 652 pp. ¥9,975, isbn 978-4-8158-0591-3.) In Japanese.
Kershner, Jim, Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xii, 264 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-295-98846-7.)
Lindsay, Beverly, ed., Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 199 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03225-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Lüthe, Martin, “We Missed a Lot of Church, So the Music is Our Confessional”: Rap and Religion. (Münster: lit, 2008. 93 pp. Paper, €19.90, isbn 978-3-8258-0816-7.)
Meissner, Jochen, Ulrich Mücke, and Klaus Weber, eds., Schwarzes Amerika: Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei (Black America: A history of slavery). (München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2008. 320 pp. €26.90, isbn 978-3-406-56225-9.)
Parks, Gregory S., ed., Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-first Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xviii, 490 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2491-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Royal, Alice C., Mickey Ellinger, and Scott Braley, Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: A California African American Township. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2008. xvi, 141 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-59714-091-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Smith, Catherine Parsons, William Grant Still. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 116 pp. $37.00, isbn 978-0-252-03322-3.)
Ward, Andrew, The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. xiv, 386 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-618-63400-2.)
Andrews, William L., and Regina E. Mason, eds., Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxii, 145 pp. Cloth, $64.00, isbn 978-0-19-534331-1. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-19-534332-8.) Originally published in 1825.
Bush, A. E., and P. L. Dorman, eds., History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officials. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. lviii, 291 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-55728-882-0.)
Chandler, Genevieve W., comp., Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from wpa Oral Histories, ed. Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xlvi, 391 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-721-4.)
Cole, Jean Lee, and Charles Mitchell, eds., Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 389 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4291-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4292-8.)
Hilliard, David, ed., The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 158 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4394-9.)
Stanford, Karin L., ed., If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and Peace. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. x, 373 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4113-9. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4114-6.)
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