Recent Scholarship
Race
Bobo, Lawrence D., “Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621 (Jan. 2009), 243–59.
Boime, Eric, “‘Beating Plowshares into Swords’: The Colorado River Delta, the Yellow Peril, and the Movement for Federal Reclamation, 1901–1928,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 27–55.
Byrd, Joseph, “Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in American College Textbooks,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Feb. 2009), 77–86.
Cope, Graeme, “‘Everybody Says All Those People . . . Were from Out of Town, but They Weren’t’: A Note on Crowds during the Little Rock Crisis,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 246–67.
Craver, Earlene, “On the Boundary of White: The Cartozian Naturalization Case and the Armenians, 1923–1925,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Winter 2009), 30–56.
Cunningham, David, “Truth, Reconciliation, and the Ku Klux Klan,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Fall 2008), 68–87.
DeGruccio, Michael, “Manhood, Race, Failure, and Reconciliation: Charles Francis Adams Jr. and the American Civil War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Dec. 2008), 636–75.
English, Bertis, “A Black Belt Anomaly: Biracial Cooperation in Reconstruction-Era Perry County, 1865–1874,” Alabama Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 3–36.
Essington, Amy, “Equality on the Baseball Diamond: Integrating the Pacific Coast League, 1948–1952,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 49–59.
Jamal, Amaney, “The Racialization of Muslim Americans,” in Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno, 200–15. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 301 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35247-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22024-0.)
Minchin, Timothy J., “One America? Church Burnings and Perceptions of Race Relations in the Clinton Years,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 1–28.
Newman, Harvey K., and Glenda Krunk, “Religious Leaders in the Aftermath of Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Winter 2008), 460–85.
Nissen, Bruce, and Sherman Henry, “The Legacy of Racism: A Case Study of Continuing Racial Impediments to Union Effectiveness,” Labor Studies Journal, 33 (Dec. 2008), 349–70.
Pierce, Michael, “The Mechanics of Little Rock: Free Labor Ideas in Antebellum Arkansas, 1845–1861,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 222–44.
Reid, Mandy, “Racial Profiling: Visualizing Racial Science on the Covers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852–1928,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Dec. 2008), 369–87.
Rice, Tom, “‘The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan’: Defining the Klan through Film,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 471–88.
Runstedtler, Theresa, “Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line,” Radical History Review (no. 103, Winter 2009), 59–81.
Sumpter, Amy R., “Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans,” Southeastern Geographer, 48 (May 2008), 19–37.
Williams, Benton, “AT&T and the Private-Sector Origins of Private-Sector Affirmitive Action,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 542–68.
Battat, Erin Mary Royston, “‘Ain’t Got No Home’: Race and American Migration Narratives in the Depression Era” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312286.
Browder, Dorothea, “From Uplift to Agitation: Working Women, Race, and Coalition in the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1908–1950” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314380.
Cardon, Lauren S., “Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3310066.
Clapper, Michael, “The Constructed World of Postwar Philadelphia Area Schools: Site Selection, Architecture, and the Landscape of Inequality” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309412.
Cserno, Isabell, “Race and Mass Consumption in Consumer Culture: National Trademark Advertising Campaigns in the United States and Germany, 1890–1930” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307782.
Jopling, Hannah, “Making a Way out of No Way: Relations between Blacks and Whites in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1902 to 1952” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3303789.
Mellis, Delia Cunningham, “‘The Monsters We Defy’: Washington, D.C. in the Red Summer of 1919” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310654.
Sokol, Marienka J., “Illusions of Abundance: Culture and Urban Water Use in the Arid Southwest” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314291.
Spaulding, Stephany R., “The Crisis of White Imagination: Towards the Literary Abolition of Whiteness” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3307487.
Steptoe, Tyina Leaneice, “Dixie West: Race, Migration, and the Color Lines in Jim Crow Houston” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314354.
Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr., The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xviii, 413 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3383-5.)
Dorr, Gregory Michael, Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xiv, 297 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2755-8.)
High, Steven, Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940–1967. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii, 299 pp. $89.95, isbn 978-0-230-60943-3.)
Hollandsworth, James G., Jr., Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xviii, 318 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3336-1.)
Levitt, Jeremy I., and Matthew C. Whitaker, Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 324 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1760-7.)
Litwack, Leon F., How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 187 pp. $18.95, isbn 978-0-674-03152-4.)
Loury, Glenn C., Race, Incarceration, and American Values. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2008. 86 pp. $14.95, isbn 978-0-262-12311-2.)
Pohlmann, Marcus D., Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xiv, 282 pp. $42.00, isbn 978-1-57233-638-4.)
Schueller, Malini Johar, Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-colonial Citizenship. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. viii, 247 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-0-7914-7681-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7682-6.)
Shulman, George, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxii, 315 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-3074-5. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8166-3075-2.)
Stockley, Grif, Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xxiv, 529 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55728-885-1.)
Stuckey, Sterling, African Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 154 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-19-537270-0.)
Walker, Clarence E., Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten By Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2777-0.)
Wolters, Raymond, Race and Education, 1954–2007. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 313 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1828-5.)
Kimber, Edward, The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson, ed. Matthew Mason and Nicholas Mason. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2009. 242 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55111-703-4.)
Lockley, Timothy James, ed., Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xxiv, 142 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-776-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57003-777-1.)
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