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Race

Davies, Gareth, “Richard Nixon and the Desegregation of Southern Schools,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no. 4, 2007), 367–94.

Gasman, Marybeth, “‘I Think I’d Like to Have the Experience of Meeting a Negro’: New York City’s White Society Women Raise Funds for Black Colleges, 1944–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 163–78. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)

Painter, Nell Irvin, “Was Marie White? The Trajectory of a Question in the United States,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Feb. 2008), 3–30.

 

Blum, Sarah Hardin, “Race, Housing, and the Making of Twentieth-Century Lousiville, Kentucky” (University of Kentucky, 2006). Order No. DA3259095.

Garoutte, Lisa, “Lynching in the U.S. South: Incorporating the Historical Record on Race, Class, and Gender” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3262058.

McAllister, David M., “Between the Suburbs and the Ghetto: Racial and Economic Change in Working-Class Philadelphia, 1933–1965” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3255129.

Nedergaard, Robert Eric, “Duty, Honor, Country, and Race: The Failure of Desegregation at West Point in the Nineteenth Century” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3258137.

Smithers, Gregory D., “The Strains of Breeding: Settler Colonalism and Managed Miscegenation in the United States and Australia, 1760s–1890s” (University of California, Davis, 2006). Order No. DA3250858.

 

DeWolf, Thomas Norman, Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8070-7281-3.)

 

Sweeney, James R., ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xvi, 302 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8203-3025-9.)

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