Recent Scholarship
Race
Fussell, Elizabeth, “Constructing New Orleans, Constructing Race: A Population History of New Orleans,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 846–55.
Lizzi, Maria C., “‘My Heart Is as Black as Yours’: White Backlash, Racial Identity, and Italian American Stereotypes in New York City’s 1969 Mayoral Campaign,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Spring 2008), 43–80.
Manuel, Jeffrey T., “The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music’s ‘Social Origins,’” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Oct. 2008), 417–31.
Bragg, Susan, “Marketing the ‘Modern’ Negro: Race, Gender, and the Culture of Activism in the naacp, 1909–1941” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3275850.
Brown, Tammy L., “Re-visioning Blackness: West Indian Intellectuals and the Discourse of Identity, New York City, 1920–1980” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3273507.
Carter, Erik T., “Comparative Racial Formations: Chinese Exclusion, Assimilating Native Americans, and Racial Ideology in the United States” (Washington State University, 2006). Order No. DA3264739.
Charles, John Christopher, “Talking like White Folks: The Rise of the Post–World War II African American White-Life Novel” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007). Order No. DA3263512.
Collins, Ann V., “‘All Hell Broke Loose’: A Comparative Analysis of American Race Riots from the Progressive Era through World War II” (Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3268021.
Gillin, Kate Fraser Côté, “‘From Eager Lips Came Shrill Hurrahs’: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865–1900” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3268801.
Grivno, Max L., “‘There slavery cannot dwell’: Agriculture and Labor in Northern Maryland, 1790–1860” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3277401.
Gupta-Carlson, Himanee, “No Place to Call Home: Remapping America’s ‘Middletown’ from a South Asian Perspective” (University of Hawai‘i, 2007). Order No. DA3264851.
Joo, Hee-Jung, “Speculative Nations: Racial Utopia and Dystopia in Twentieth-Century African American and Asian American Literature” (University of Oregon, 2007). Order No. DA3276060.
Kosary, Rebecca A., “To Degrade and Control: White Violence and the Maintenance of Racial and Gender Boundaries in Reconstruction Texas, 1865–1868” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3270773.
Lemon, Samuel M., “The Construction of Ethnoracial Identity within Situational Contexts: A Study of Triracial Family Histories” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3270863.
Levario, Miguel Antonio, “Cuando Vino la Mexicanada: Authority, Race, and Conflict in West Texas, 1895–1924” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3277567.
Mace, Darryl Christopher, “Regional Identities and Racial Messages: The Print Media’s Stories of Emmett Till” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3268169.
May, Heather, “Middle-Class Morality and Blackwashed Beauties: Francis Leon and the Rise of the Prima Donna in the Post-War Minstrel Show” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3264313.
Miklos, Michael Joseph, “Undermining Common Sense: Racial Legislation, Comedy, and the Family” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3265655.
Napson-Williams, Theresa, “Violating the Black Body: Black Women, White Men, and Sexual Violence, 1920–1952” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3277312.
Rhyne, James Michael, “Rehearsal for Redemption: The Politics of Post-Emancipation Violence in Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region” (University of Cincinnati, 2007). Order No. DA3263045.
Robertson Cremer, Andrea Darrelle, “Enemies Incarnate: Religion, Sex, Violence, and Contests for Power in New England, 1636–1638” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263138.
Weaver, Vesla Mae, “Frontlash: Race and the Politics of Punishment” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265214.
Davis, Thomas J., Race Relations in the United States, 1940–1960. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xx, 192 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-34276-9.)
Lake, Marilyn, and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. x, 371 pp. Cloth, $90.00, isbn 978-0-521-88118-0. Paper, $29.99, isbn 978-0-521-70752-7.)
Mullen, Patrick B., The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 210 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03265-3. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07486-8.)
Stewart, James Brewer, Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xvi, 236 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-634-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-55849-635-4.)
Tischauser, Leslie V., Race Relations in the United States, 1920–1940. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xiv, 183 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33848-9.)
Ogden, Dunbar H., My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. xxii, 170 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8265-1592-6.)
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