Recent Scholarship
African American
Araki, Keiko, "Makasu gabei and pan-Africanism" (Marcus Garvey and pan-Africanism), Hogaku seijigaku ronkyu (Tokyo), 61 (2004), 129–62. In Japanese.
Bailey, Fred A., "The Southern Historical Association and the Quest for Racial Justice, 1954–1963," Journal of Southern History, 71 (Nov. 2005), 833–52.
Bauman, Robert, "Jim Crow in the Tri-Cities, 1943–1950," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 96 (Spring 2005), 124–31. Heavily illustrated.
Beeching, Barbara J., "Reading the Numbers: Census Returns as Key to the Nineteenth Century Black Community in Hartford, Connecticut," Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 224–47.
Behnken, Brian D., "'Count On Me': Reverend M. L. Price of Texas, a Case Study in Civil Rights Leadership," Journal of American Ethnic History, 24 (Fall 2005), 61–84.
Berry, Stephen R., "William Catto's Pursuit of God's Calling in Slaveholding America," Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Spring–Summer 2005), 41–53. Heavily illustrated.
Bivins, Joy L., "Emmett Till's Day in Court," Chicago History, 33 (Fall 2005), 32–51.
Booth, William D., "Booth, Founder of the Progressive National Baptist Convention," Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 34–43.
Bridgewater, Pamela D., "Ain't I a Slave: Slavery, Reproductive Abuse, and Reparations," UCLA Women's Law Journal, 14 (Fall–Winter 2005), 89–161.
Broussard, Albert S., "The Honolulu naacp and Race Relations in Hawai'i," Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 115–33.
Bunji, Sawanobori, "Brown v. Board of Education: Its Continuing Significance," Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 26 (2004), 27–41.
Cameron, Diane, "Circumstances of Their Lives: Enslaved and Free Women of Color Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1648–1832," Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 248–61.
Dawkins, Laura, "Her Mammy's Daughter: Symbolic Matricide and Racial Construction of Motherhood in Charles W. Chestnutt's Her Virginia Mammy," 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 16, Autumn 2005) http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
DeBrincat, Dominic, "Discolored Justice: Blacks in New London County Courts, 1710–1750," Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 183–204.
Des Jardins, Julie, "Black Librarians and the Search for Women's Biography during the New Negro History Movement," oah Magazine of History, 20 (Jan. 2006), 15–18.
Ferguson, Roderick A., "Of Our Normative Strivings: African American Studies and the Histories of Sexuality," Social Text, 23 (Fall–Winter 2005), 85–100.
Finkelman, Paul, "Ohio's Struggle for Equality before the Civil War," Timeline, 23 (Jan.–March 2006), 28–43. Heavily illustrated.
Foster, Daniel H., "From Minstrel Shows to Radio Shows: Racism and Representation in Blackface and Blackvoice," Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 17 (Spring 2005), 7–16.
Foster, Frances Smith, "A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture," American Literary History, 17 (Winter 2005), 714–40.
Gallagher, Victoria, and Kenneth S. Zagacki, "Visibility and Rhetoric: The Power of Visual Images in Norman Rockwell's Depictions of Civil Rights," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91 (May 2005), 175–200.
Goudsouzian, Aram, "'Can Basketball Survive Chamberlain?': The Kansas Years of Wilt the Stilt," Kansas History, 28 (Autumn 2005), 150–73.
Gourley, Bruce, "John Leland: Evolving Views of Slavery, 1789–1839," Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 104–16.
Griffin, Rebecca, "Courtship Contests and the Meaning of Conflict in the Folklore of Slaves," Journal of Southern History, 71 (Nov. 2005), 769–802.
Gullickson, Aaron, "The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post–Civil Rights America," Social Forces, 84 (Sept. 2005), 157–80.
Hishida, Sachiko, "Ingrams jiken shienkatsudo ni miru kokujin elite niyoru respectability no hyosho" (Representation of respectability in African American organizational efforts to help the Ingrams), Amerika-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 38 (2004), 179–90. In Japanese.
Hodson, Christopher Z., "Invisible Man and African American Radicalism in World War II," African American Review, 39 (Sept. 2005), 355–76.
Inwood, Joshua, "Making the Legal Visible: Wilhelmina Griffin Jones' Experience of Living in Alabama during Segregation," Southeastern Geographer, 45 (May 2005), 54–66.
Jones, James B., Jr., "The 'Battle' of Franklin: A Reconstruction Narrative," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Summer 2005), 110–19.
Jones, Mark H., "'To Tell Our Story': Mary Townsend Seymour and the Early Years of Hartford's Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1917–1920," Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 205–32.
Kaneko, Ayumu, "Kokujin joseishi, kokujin 'community,' to 'otokorashia' gainen" (Black women's history, black "community," and the idea of masculinity), in Modern Masculinities, ed. Makoto Hosoya, . (Tokyo: Kagaku kenkyu hi nejo hokokusyo, 2003.) In Japanese.
Kawashima, Masaki, "Birmingham toso saiho" (The Birmingham campaign of 1963 revisited), Academia (Nagoya), 79 (2004), 195–320. In Japanese.
Klugh, Elgin L., "Reclaiming Segregation-Era, African American Schoolhouses: Building on Symbols of Past Cooperation," Journal of Negro Education, 74 (Summer 2005), 246–59.
Kurosaki, Makoto, "Sekkyo toshite no 'aI habu a driimu' enzetsu" (The "I Have a Dream" speech as a sermon), Ibunka Communication Kenkyu (Chiba), 16 (2004), 25–46. In Japanese.
Masaki, Kawashima, "A Progress Report of a Five-Year Personal Project to Revisit the Civil Rights Movement: A Brief Essay Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the Fortieth Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act," Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 26 (2004), 11–26. Heavily illustrated.
Matsui, Yoshiko, "America gassyukoku ni okeru 'kokujin' no hensen" (The transformation of "black people" in the U.S.), Kenkyuka Ronsyu (Kobe), 7 (2004), 175–92. In Japanese.
Mixon, Gregory, "The Making of a Black Political Boss: Henry A. Rucker, 1897–1904," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 89 (Winter 2005), 485–504.
Morgan, Jennifer, "Reproducing Slavery: Thinking about Women in Slavery," Common-Place, 6 (Jan. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Murphy, Sharon Ann, "Securing Human Property: Slavery, Life Insurance, and Industrialization in the Upper South," Journal of the Early Republic, 25 (Winter 2005), 615–52.
Murrell, Gary, "Herbert Aptheker's Unity of Theory and Practice in the Communist Party usa: On the Last Night, and during the First Two Decades," Science & Society, 70 (Jan. 2006), 98–118.
Naison, Mark, et al., "Memories of Morrisania: Introduction," Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 42 (Spring 2005), 5–22.
Noel, Jana, "Jeremiah B. Sanderson: Educator and Organizer for the Rights of 'Colored Citizens' in Early California," Journal of Negro Education, 74 (Spring 2005), 151–58.
O'Connor, Charles S., "The Politics of Industrialization and Interracialism in Sumter County, Georgia: Koinonia Farm in the 1950s," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 89 (Winter 2005), 505–27.
Orui, Hisae, "Dai ikkai chuto/africa rekiho to marukomu x" (Malcolm X in the Middle East and black Africa: April–May, 1964), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 27 (2004), 85–100. In Japanese.
Peavler, David J., "Drawing the Color Line in Kansas City," Kansas History, 28 (Autumn 2005), 188–201.
Pincham, Linda B., "A League of Willing Workers: The Impact of Northern Philanthropy, Virginia Estelle Randolph, and the Jeanes Teachers in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia," Journal of Negro Education, 74 (Spring 2005), 112–23.
Randle, Julia E., "Archival Report: African American Episcopal Historical Collection," Anglican and Episcopal History, 74 (Dec. 2005), 498–505.
Rycenga, Jennifer, "A Greater Awakening: Women's Intellect as a Factor in Early Abolitionist Movements, 1824–1834," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 21 (Fall 2005), 31–59.
Shimizu, Tadashige, "1850 nendai no f. douglass" (Frederick Douglass during the 1850s), Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku Ronshu (Kobe), 50 (no. 3, 2004), 43–58. In Japanese.
Sutton, Allison M., "Bridging the Gap in Early Library Education History for African Americans: The Negro Teacher-Librarian Training Program (1936–1939)," Journal of Negro Education, 74 (Spring 2005), 138–50.
Takemoto, Yuko, "Daiichiji sekai taisen go no gassyukoku kokujin undo ni okeru carib imin no yakuwari" (The role of the Caribbean immigrants in the black movement after World War I), Kiyo/Bulletin of the Graduate Division of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University (Tokyo), 49 (2003), 45–57. In Japanese.
Taylor, Kay Ann, "Mary S. Peake and Charlotte F. Forten: Black Teachers during the Civil War and Reconstruction," Journal of Negro Education, 74 (Spring 2005), 124–37.
Tolnay, Stewart Emory, et al., "Distances Traveled during the Great Migration: An Analysis of Racial Differences among Male Migrants," Social Science History, 29 (Winter 2005), 523–48.
Tomek, Beverley, "'From motives of generosity, as well as self-preservation': Thomas Branagan, Colonization, and the Gradual Emancipation Movement," American Nineteenth Century History (London), 6 (June 2005), 121–47.
Vidal, CÈcile, "Private and State Violence against African Slaves in Lower Louisiana during the French Period, 1699–1769," in New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, ed. John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, 92–110. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi, 362 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8122-3895-8.)
Wald, Gayle, "'Have a little talk': Listening to the B-side of History," Popular Music (Cambridge), 24 (Oct. 2005), 323–37.
Williams, Julian, "Black Radio and Civil Rights: Birmingham, 1956–1963," Journal of Radio Studies, 12 (May 2005), 47–60.
Williams, Lawrence H., "The Progressive National Baptist Convention," Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Winter 2005), 24–33.
Young, Harvey, "The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching," Theatre Journal, 57 (Dec. 2005), 639–57.
Zimmerman, Andrew, "A German Alabama in Africa: The Tuskegee Expedition to German Togo and the Transnational Origins of West African Cotton Growers," American Historical Review, 110 (Dec. 2005), 1362–98.
Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I., "The Erotics of Race: Identity, Sexuality, and One Hundred Years of (Black) American Writing" (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170798.
Asch, Christopher Myers, "No Compromise: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer" (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170513.
Booker, Clyde G., "Dying for a Job: African Americans, Industrial Hegemony, and the Hawk's Nest Tunnell, 1930–1936" (University of Kentucky, 2005). Order No. DA3167863.
Byrd, Michael Dane, "White Poor and Poor Relief in Charles Town, 1725–1775: A Prosopography" (University of South Carolina, 2005). Order No. DA3173146.
Dawson, Kevin, "Enslaved Watermen in the Atlantic World, 1444–1888" (University of South Carolina, 2005). Order No. DA3173148.
Evans, Curtis Junius, "The Burden of Black Religion: Representing the Race and Enlisting the Black Churches in the Nation's Racial Struggle" (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3174096.
Frystak, Shannon L., "'Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom': Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana" (University of New Hampshire, 2005). Order No. DA3169081.
Gaudin, Wendy Ann, "Autocrats and All Saints: Migration, Memory, and Modern Creole Identities" (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170829.
Gopinath, Sumanth S., "Contraband Children: The Politics of Race and Liberation in the Music of Steve Reich, 1965–1966" (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3168896.
Gullatt, Velvia Yvette, "The Crisis of Exuberance: Faith and Nation in Early African American Autobiography" (University of California, Berkeley, 2004). Order No. DA3167198.
Hutchison, Phillip J., "Media, Motives, and White Hopes: The News Media's Construction of the Era of Jack Johnson, 1908–1915" (University of Utah, 2005). Order No. DA3174398.
Jackson, Alicia K., "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and Their Struggle for Autonomy and Reform in the New South" (University of Mississippi, 2004). Order No. DA3167443.
Jones, Sandra E., "Handing on the Creative Spark: Black Women's Reading Practices, a Speculative History" (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2005). Order No. DA3168213.
Joseph, Ralina Landwehr, "New Millennium 'Mulattas': Post-Ethnicity, Post-Feminism, and the Mixed-Race Excuse" (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3170224.
Latimore, Carey H., IV, "Always a Minority: Richmond Area Free Blacks in the Civil War Era" (Emory University, 2005). Order No. DA3176037.
Maslayak, Michael J., "Exploring the Tension of Racial Identity Development in Surburban Students during the 1960s and 1970s: A Critical Historical Ethnography" (Saint Joseph's University, 2005). Order No. DA3170263.
Mosnier, L. Joseph, "Crafting Law in the Second Reconstruction: Julius Chambers, the naacp Legal Defense Fund, and Title vii" (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170509.
Odum-Hinmon, Maria E., "The Cautious Crusader: How the Atlanta Daily World Covered the Struggle for African American Rights from 1945 to 1985" (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3175115.
Rice, Anne P., "Dangerous Memories: Lynching and the U.S. Literary Imagination" (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3169973.
Rugemer, Edward Bartlett, "The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery" (Boston College, 2005). Order No. DA3167645.
Thompson, Douglas Eugene, "Richmond's Priests and Prophets in the 1950s: White Ministers and Congregations Struggle with Racial Change" (University of Virginia, 2003). Order No. DA3175636.
Traylor, Ronald D., "Barrett Station, Texas: Life in a Black Community, 1865–2005" (University of Houston, 2005). Order No. DA3171380.
Williamson, Rosanne Flack, "Deferred Dreams: Narratives of African American Students during Desegregation (1965–1972)" (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3169660.
Wilson, Jamie Jaywann, "Sickness, Health, and the Politics of Well Being in Harlem, New York, during the Interwar Period" (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170888.
Andrews, William L., ed., The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. x, 314 pp. Cloth, $42.50, isbn 0-8078-2994-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5665-7.)
Caron, Denis R., A Century in Captivity: The Life and Trials of Prince Mortimer, a Connecticut Slave. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2006. xviii, 188 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 1-58465-539-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-58465-540-2.)
Djata, Sundiata, Blacks at the Net, vol. 1: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xviii, 294 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8156-0818-7.)
Ferrell, Claudine L., The Abolitionist Movement. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xx, 210 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-313-33180-4.)
Foner, Eric, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. (New York: Knopf, 2005. xxx, 268 pp. $27.50, isbn 0-375-40259-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Furukawa, Hiromi, and Tetsushi Furukawa, Nihonjin to Africakei Americajin (Japanese and African Americans). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2004. 553 pp. •6,800, isbn 4750319228.) In Japanese.
Harris, Fredrick C., Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, and Brian D. McKenzie, Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973–1994. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 176 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-521-84936-5. Paper, $19.99, isbn 0-521-61413-9.)
Hogan, Lawrence D., Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball. (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006. xxiv, 422 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-7922-5306-X.) Heavily illustrated.
Kokujin kenkyu no kai, ed., Kokujin kenkyu no sekai (The world of black studies). (Kashiwa: Seiji shobo, 2004. 393 pp. •3,500, isbn 4916988221.) In Japanese.
Lovett, Bobby L., The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. xxvi, 483 pp. $45.00, isbn 1-57233-443-6.)
McCall, Jeannette Steele, The First and Last Bell: A Story of Six Missions for Blacks in Wilcox County, Alabama. (Baltimore: American Literary, 2005. 117 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 1-56167-909-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Roberts, Kevin D., African American Issues. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xvi, 167 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-313-33240-1.)
Takino, Tetsuro, Noenshu to dorei no america (Planter and slave in America). (Kyoto: Sekaishisosha, 2004. 259 pp. •2,300, isbn 4790710491.) In Japanese.
Adams, Charles Hansford, ed., The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Barbary Captive: A Critical Edition. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. lxvi, 190 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-521-84284-0. Paper, $20.00, isbn 0-521-60373-0.)
Adickes, Sandra E., The Legacy of a Freedom School. (New York: Palgrave, 2005. 218 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 1-4039-6427-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-4039-7213-3.)
Brown, Catharine S., Abel Brown, Abolitionist, ed. Tom Calarco. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. x, 228 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7864-2378-1.)
Himes, Chester, and John A. Williams, "Special Section: The Letters of Chester Himes and John A. Williams," Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, 6 (Spring 2005), 144–73.
Smith, Mark M., ed., Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. xviii, 134 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 1-57003-604-7. Paper, $14.95, isbn 1-57003-605-5.)
Waldrep, Christopher, Lynching in America: A History in Documents. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xxii, 281 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-8147-9398-3. Paper, $24.00, isbn 0-8147-9399-1.)
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