Recent Scholarship
Race
Baker, Bruce E., “How W. E. B. Du Bois Won the United Daughters of the Confederacy Essay Contest,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Spring 2009), 69–81.
Bogen, David S., “Rebuilding the Slaughter-House: The Cases’ Support for Civil Rights,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 1129–64.
Brenner, Samuel, “‘Negro Blood in His Veins’: The Development and Disappearance of the Doctrine of Defamation Per Se by Racial Misidentification in the American South,” Santa Clara Law Review, 50 (no. 2, 2010), 333–406.
Brooks, Roy L., “Conley and Twombly: A Critical Race Theory Perspective,” Howard Law Journal, 52 (Fall 2008), 31–72.
Brooks, Roy L., “Toward a Post-atonement America: The Supreme Court’s Atonement for Slavery and Jim Crow,” University of Kansas Law Review, 57 (May 2009), 739–54.
Bryant, Douglas, III, “‘A Failure to Act’ from Brown v. Board of Education to Sheff v. O’Neill: The American Educational System Will Remain Segregated,” Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 1–25.
Burg, Steven B., “The North Queen Street Cemetery and the African-American Experience in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 77 (Winter 2010), 1–36.
Burke, Patrick, “Tear Down the Walls: Jefferson Airplane, Race, and Revolutionary Rhetoric in 1960s Rock,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 29 (Jan. 2010), 61–79.
Butchart, Ronald E., “Black Hope, White Power: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Legacy of Unequal Schooling in the U.S. South, 1861–1880,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 46 (Feb. 2010), 33–50.
Campney, Brent M. S., “‘Hold the Line’: The Defense of Jim Crow in Lawrence, Kansas, 1945–1961,” Kansas History, 33 (Spring 2010), 22–41. Heavily illustrated.
Caretti, Kathryn M., and N. Pieter M. O’Leary, “The Story of the Jena Six: The Interplay of History, Hate Crimes, Racial Inequality, and Legal Justice in Jena, Louisiana,” Human Rights & Globalization Law Review, 1 (Fall–Spring 2007–2008), 3–38.
Charles, John C., “Talk about the South: Unspeakable Things Unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee,” Mississippi Quarterly, 62 (Winter–Spring 2009), 19–52.
Clune, Erin Elizabeth, “From Light Copper to the Blackest and Lowest Type: Daniel Tompkins and the Racial Order of the Global New South,” Journal of Southern History, 76 (May 2010), 275–314.
Cutler, Jody B., “Art Revolution: Politics and Pop in the Robert Colescott Painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware,” Americana, 8 (Fall 2009), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2009/cutler.htm.
Delgado, Richard, “Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory,” Iowa Law Review, 99 (July 2009), 1505–45.
Dirck, Brian, “Lincoln’s Kentucky Childhood and Race,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 307–32.
Doyle, Dennis, “‘Where the Need Is Greatest’: Social Psychiatry and Race-Blind Universalism in Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic, 1946–1958,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Winter 2009), 746–74.
Efford, Alison Clark, “Race Should Be as Unimportant as Ancestry: German Radicals and African American Citizenship in the Missouri Constitution of 1865,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (April 2010), 138–58. Heavily illustrated.
Fannin, John F., “The Jacksonville Mutiny of 1865,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Winter 2010), 368–96.
Fennell, Christopher C., “Damaging Detours: Routes, Racism, and New Philadelphia,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 138–54.
Flood, Dawn Rae, “Stormy Protests on Sex Crimes: Local Debates about Race and Rape in Post War Chicagoland,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 429–58.
Freeman, Curtis W., “All the Sons of Earth: Carlyle Marney and the Fight against Prejudice,” Baptist History & Heritage, 44 (Spring 2009), 71–84.
Gerend, Sara, “‘My Son, My Son!’: Paternalism, Haiti, and Early Twentieth-Century American Imperialism in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!,” Southern Literary Journal, 41 (Fall 2009), 17–31.
Gillmer, Jason A., “Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, during Slavery Times,” Alabama Law Review, 59 (no. 5, 2008), 1501–54.
Guerrero, Vladimir, “Caste, Race, and Class in Spanish California,” Southern California Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2010), 1–18.
Hoffheimer, Michael H., “Race and Terror in Joseph Baldwin’s The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi,” Seton Hall Law Review, 39 (no. 3, 2009), 725–78.
Jones-Brown, Delores, and Brian A. Maule, “Racially Biased Policing: A Review of the Judicial and Legislative Literature,” in Race, Ethnicity, and Policing: New and Essential Readings, ed. Stephen K. Rice and Michael D. White, 140–73. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. viii, 535 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7615-5. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7616-2.)
Larrieux, Stéphanie, “The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Power in Post-apocalyptic Hollywood Cinema,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 27 (March 2010), 133–43.
Lee, Rhonda Mawhood, “‘Admit Guilt—and Tell the Truth’: The Louisville Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Struggle with Pacifism and Racial Justice, 1941–1945,” Journal of Southern History, 76 (May 2010), 315–42.
Loewen, James W., “Sundown Towns and Counties: Racial Exclusion in the South,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Spring 2009), 22–47.
Miller, Darrell A. H., “White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.,” Fordham Law Review, 77 (Dec. 2008), 999–1050.
Muller, Eric L., “Americanism behind Barbed Wire,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 31 (2009), 13–31.
Nier, Charles Lewis, III, “The Shadow of Credit: The Historical Origins of Racial Predatory Lending and Its Impact upon African American Wealth Accumulation,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 11 (no. 2, 2007–2008), 131–94.
Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., “From Dred Scott to Barack Obama: The Ebb and Flow of Race Jurisprudence,” Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, 25 (Spring 2009), 1–39.
Oh, Young-In, “Miguknae bakinseonge daehan jaego” (Rethinking whiteness in America: The literacy test of 1917), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 30 (Nov. 2009), 61–91. In Korean.
Okamura, Jonathan Y., “From Running Amok to Eating Dogs: A Century of Misrepresenting Filipino Americans in Hawai’i,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 33 (March 2010), 496–514.
Powell, Cedric Merlin, “Rhetorical Neutrality: Colorblindness, Frederick Douglass, and Inverted Critical Race Theory,” Cleveland State Law Review, 56 (no. 4, 2008), 823–94.
Sanchez, George J., “Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism,” Southern California Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2010), 51–73.
Schmidt, Christopher W., “Brown and the Colorblind Constitution,” Cornell Law Review, 94 (Nov. 2008), 203–38.
Schmidt, Christopher W., “‘Freedom Comes Only from the Law’: The Debate over Law’s Capacity and the Making of Brown v. Board of Education,” Utah Law Review, 2008 (no. 4, 2008), 1493–1559.
Shackel, Paul A., “Identity and Collective Action in a Multiracial Community,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 58–71.
Shackel, Paul A., “Remembering New Philadelphia,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 7–19.
Stadler, Gustavus, “Never Heard Such a Thing: Lynching and Phonographic Modernity,” Social Text, 28 (Spring 2010), 87–105.
Sundquist, Christian B., “The Meaning of Race in the dna Era: Science, History, and the Law,” Temple Journal of Science, Technology, & Environmental Law, 27 (Fall 2008), 231–65.
Thompson, Debra, “Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies: The Regulation of Interracial Relationships in North America,” Social & Legal Studies, 18 (Sept. 2009), 353–71.
Webb, Clive, “Freedom for All? Blacks, Jews, and the Political Censorship of White Racists in the Civil Rights Era,” American Jewish History, 94 (Dec. 2008), 267–97.
Williams, Robert W., “Paradoxes of the South in Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk,” Mississippi Quarterly, 62 (Winter–Spring 2009), 71–94.
Young, Terence, “‘A Contradiction in Democratic Government’: W. J. Trent Jr. and the Struggle to Desegregate National Park Campgrounds,” Environmental History, 14 (Oct. 2009), 651–82.
Applegarth, Risa, “Other Grounds: Popular Genres and the Rhetoric of Anthropology, 1900–1940” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3366302.
Baker, Samuel Zebulon, “Fields of Contest: Race, Region, and College Football in the U.S. South, 1945–1975” (Emory University, 2009). Order No. DA3360033.
Birmingham, Kevin Brian, “The One-Drop Aesthetic: How Literary Formalism Reinvented Race in the United States” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365201.
Carroll, Kara Allison Schubert, “Coming to Grips with America: The Japanese American Experience in the Southwest” (Arizona State University, 2009). Order No. DA3360590.
Chase, Robert T., “Civil Rights on the Cell Block: Race, Reform, and Violence in Texas Prisons and the Nation, 1945–1990” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359624.
Hustwit, William P., “‘The Hell He Is Equal’: James J. Kilpatrick, Salesman for Segregation” (University of Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3358355.
Jasmine, Randy, “The Racial Dynamics of Space and Place in the Work of William Faulkner and Richard Wright” (University of Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3358361.
Kray, Ryan M., “Second-Class Citizenship at a First-Class Resort: Race and Public Policy in Palm Springs” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3360926.
Lechtreck, Elaine Allen, “Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement” (Union Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3360933.
Lowery, James Vincent, “Reconstructing the Reign of Terror: Popular Memories of the Ku Klux Klan, 1877–1921” (University of Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3361186.
Reda, John, “Joining the Union: Land, Race, and Sovereignty in the Illinois Country, 1763–1825” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3364630.
Stevens, Robin Stanback, “aids in Black and White: The Influence of News Coverage of hiv/aids Testing among African Americans and White Americans, 1993–2007” (University of Pennsylvania, 2009). Order No. DA3363671.
Alba, Richard, Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xiv, 306 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-03513-3.)
Gay, Timothy M., Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball before Jackie Robinson. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. xviii, 349 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-4798-3.)
Hammonds, Evelynn M., and Rebecca M. Herzig, eds., The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008. xvi, 380 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-262-08375-1. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-262-58275-9.)
Hoffer, Peter Charles, A Nation of Laws: America’s Imperfect Pursuit of Justice. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010. xviii, 214 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1707-4.)
Rice, Stephen K., and Michael D. White, eds., Race, Ethnicity, and Policing: New and Essential Readings. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. viii, 535 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7615-5. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7616-2.)
Roediger, David R., How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon. (New York: Verso, 2008. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-1-84467-275-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-84467-434-3.)
Wright, Susan Prothro, and Ernestine Pickens Glass, eds., Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chestnutt. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. xiv, 132 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-416-4.)
Craft, Jerry, and Kathleen Sullivan, Our White Boy. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010. xxx, 241 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-674-1.)
Elliott, Mark, and John David Smith, eds., Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. xiv, 402 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3593-8.)
Gaston, Paul M., Coming of Age in Utopia: The Odyssey of an Idea. (Montgomery: NewSouth, 2010. 358 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-1-58838-225-2.)
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