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Benavides, José Luis, “‘Californios! Whom Do You Support?’: El Clamor Público’s Contradictory Role in the Racial Formation Process in Early California,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 54–68. Heavily illustrated.

Camarillo, Albert M., “Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California’s Minority-Majority Cities,” Pacific Historical Review, 76 (Feb. 2007), 1–28.

Downey, Liam, “Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 771–96.

Glenna, Leland L., Margaret A. Gollnick, and Stephen S. Jones, “Eugenic Opportunity Structures: Teaching Genetic Engineering at U.S. Land-Grant Universities since 1911,” Social Studies of Science, 37 (April 2007), 281–96.

Meehan, Kevin, and Paul B. Miller, “Martí, Schomburg, y la cuestión racial en las Américas” (Martí, Schomburg, and the race question in the Americas), Afro-Hispanic Review, 25 (Fall 2006), 73–88. In Spanish.

Ostrowski, Carl, “Slavery, Labor Reform, and Intertextuality in Antebellum Print Culture: The Slave Narrative and the City-Mysteries Novel,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 493–506.

 

Berrey, Stephen Andrew, “Against the Law: Violence, Crime, State Repression, and Black Resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3221349.

Donaldson, Lisa Weber, “‘Indian rolling’: White Violence against Native Americans in Farmington, New Mexico” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220935.

Fernheimer, Janice Wendi, “The Rhetoric of Black Jewish Identity Construction in America and Israel: 1964–1972” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3225418.

Jerng, Mark Chia-Yon, “Claiming Others: Imagining Transracial Adoption in American Literature” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217774.

Jurkiewicz, Theodore C., “Citadels in the Suburbs: White Resistance to Black Neighbors in Metropolitan Detroit from 1950–1970” (Wayne State University, 2006). Order No. DA3211008.

Kearly, Peter R., “Lost in Chinatown: Representations of White Alienation in American Fiction and Film” (Wayne State University, 2006). Order No. DA3211004.

Methot, Greta, “The Horror of Looking: Lynching and the Empathetic Eye” (University of Rhode Island, 2006). Order No. DA3225322.

Riedl, John M., “Language and the Making of Race in the United States, 1827–1900” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3225902.

Rogers, Jaye Lee, “‘Ye are all one’: Missionaries in the Congo and the Dynamics of Race and Gender, 1890–1925” (Union Institute & University, 2006). Order No. DA3224996.

White, John W., “Managed Compliance: White Resistance and Desegregation in South Carolina, 1950–1970” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224648.

Williams, Edward M., Jr., “The Color of Sympathy: Biology, Race, and Feeling in Republican and Antebellum Culture” (University of Rhode Island, 2006). Order No. DA3225332.

Williams, Kelly Diane, “‘Home of all nations’: Race, Place, and Domesticity in American Literature, 1877–1919” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224786.

 

Jaspin, Elliott, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. (New York: Basic, 2007. x, 341 pp. $26.96, isbn 978-0-465-03636-3.)

Koehlinger, Amy L., The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 304 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02473-1.)

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