Recent Scholarship
African American
Amaki, Amalia, “Being Richard A. Long: The Life, the Odyssey,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 3, 2009), 2–13.
Benjamin, Keisha, “How Did Rank and File Women Construct the ‘New Negro Woman’ within the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Sept. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000928880.
Bold, Christine, “Where Did the Black Rough Riders Go?,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 3, 2009), 273–97.
Bonds, Michael, Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton, and Edgar G. Epps, “African Americans’ Continuing Struggle for Quality Education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” Journal of Negro Education, 78 (Winter 2009), 55–69.
Boyd, Robert L., “Depletion of the South’s Human Capital: The Case of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs,” Southeastern Geographer, 49 (Fall 2009), 251–66.
Danns, Dionne, “Thriving in the Midst of Adversity: Educator Maudelle Brown Bousfield’s Struggles in Chicago, 1920–1950,” Journal of Negro Education, 78 (Winter 2009), 3–16.
DoBell, Daniel C., “Thirty Years of Influence: A Look Back at Geneva Smitherman’s Talkin and Testifyin,” Journal of Negro Education, 77 (Spring 2008), 157–67.
Dye, Keith, “The Black Manifesto for Reparations in Detroit: Challenge and Response, 1969,” Michigan Historical Review, 35 (Fall 2009), 53–84.
Edmondson, Aimee, and Earnest L. Perry Jr., “Objectivity and ‘The Journalist’s Creed’: Local Coverage of Lucile Bluford’s Fight to Enter the University of Missouri School of Journalism,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 233–40.
Fehn, Bruce, and Robert Jefferson, “North Side Revolutionaries in the Civil Rights Struggle: The African American Community in Des Moines and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, 1948–1970,” Annals of Iowa, 69 (Winter 2010), 51–81.
Geherin, Christopher, “New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York,” New York History, 90 (Summer 2009), 141–66.
Hall, Randal L., and Ken Badgett, “Robinson Newcomb and the Limits of Liberalism at unc: Two Case Studies of Black Businessmen in the 1920s South,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (Oct. 2009), 373–403.
Kimball, Gary, “William Jefferson Hardin: A Grand but Forgotten Park City African American,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2010), 23–38. Heavily illustrated.
Kokomoor, Kevin, “A Re-assessment of Seminoles, Africans, and Slavery on the Florida Frontier,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Fall 2009), 209–36.
McAndrew, Malia, “Selling Black Beauty: African American Modeling Agencies and Charm Schools in Postwar America,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 29–32.
Murray, Rolland, “African-American Literary Studies and the Legacies of Black Nationalism,” American Literary History, 21 (Winter 2009), 923–37.
Nitoburg, E. L., “Afroamerikantsy SShA (v svete prezidentskikh vyborov v 2008 godu)” (African Americans in the United States [in light of the 2008 presidential election]), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 3, 2009), 34–46. In Russian.
Ross, Felicia Jones, “The Cleveland Call and Post and the Election of Carl B. Stokes,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 215–23.
Wagner, Venise, “‘Activities among Negroes’: Race Pride and a Call for Interracial Dialogue in California’s East Bay Region, 1920–31,” Journalism History, 35 (Summer 2009), 82–90.
Abbott, Janet Gail, “The Barnett Aden Gallery: A Home for Diversity in a Segregated City” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3346281.
Blaque, Ellesia Ann, “Imagined Identities: Adapting White Imaginings of Black Female Identity in African American Literature before the Renaissance” (Wayne State University, 2008). Order No. DA3344780.
Bond, Gregory, “Jim Crow at Play: Race, Manliness, and the Color Line in American Sports, 1876–1916” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3348777.
Brown, Carolynne Hitter, “Singing through Struggle: Music as a Mode of Cultural Exchange in African American Border City Churches after Emancipation, 1862–1890” (Boston University School of Theology, 2009). Order No. DA3357444.
Bynum, Tara, “‘The Saving Change’: New Birth and Conversion in Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3357041.
Carpenter, Jeannine, “Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South” (Duke University, 2009). Order No. DA3349826.
Carthon, Jacqueline Margo Brooks, “No Place for the Dying: A Tale of Urban Health Work in Philadelphia’s Black Belt, 1900–1930” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3345915.
Caruthers-Jackson, Sarah, “Cradle to Third Life: An Autobiography of an African-American Science Educator” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348480.
Chamberlain, Daphne Rochelle, “‘And a Child Shall Lead the Way’: Children’s Participation in the Jackson, Mississippi, Black Freedom Struggle, 1946–1970” (University of Mississippi, 2009). Order No. DA3358357.
Chestnut, Trichita Marie, “Endangering Lynching: Women Activists and Victims of Lynchings and White Mob Violence in the United States, 1837–1946” (Howard University, 2009). Order No. DA3344866.
Crawford, Theodore Wesley, “From Segregation to Independence: African Americans in Churches of Christ” (Vanderbilt University, 2008). Order No. DA3346808.
Croft, Wayne E., “‘You Jes’ Wait a Little’: A Comparison of the Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during the Slave and Post–Civil War Periods” (Drew University, 2009). Order No. DA3351882.
Edgerton-Webster, Brenda Joyce, “The Tale of ‘Two Voices’: An Oral History of Women Communicators from Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 and a New Black Feminist Concept” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3353499.
Elliott, Danielle Georgette, “Sea of Bones: The Middle Passage in Contemporary Poetry of the Black Atlantic” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3350822.
Hall, Patricia Kelly, “Privileged Moves: Migration, Race, and Veteran Status in Post–World War II America” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3349775.
Harper, Matthew James Zacharias, “Living in God’s Time: African-American Faith and Politics in Post-emancipation North Carolina” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352675.
Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa, “When Black Becomes White: The Problem of Racial Passing in American Life” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3350906.
Howard, Tamura Dawn, “The Politics of Civil Rights: Framing the Debate over Access to Higher Education” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3354412.
Intondi, Vincent Joseph, “From Harlem to Hiroshima: African Americans and the Bomb, 1945–1988” (American University, 2009). Order No. DA3353875.
Joyner, Rita Lashaun, “Adkin High School and the Relationships of Segregated Education” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352892.
Kaljee, Linda Marie, “‘Golden’ Histories, Tarnished Cities: Contesting the ‘Problems’ of Poverty and Violence in African American Urban Communities, Baltimore, MD” (American University, 1996). Order No. DA3351147.
Kennington, Kelly Marie, “River of Injustice: St. Louis’s Freedom Suits and the Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America” (Duke University, 2009). Order No. DA3352317.
Kracke, Alice M., “Representing Themselves and Others: Black Poets as Lay-Lawyers in the Early Transatlantic” (Tufts University, 2009). Order No. DA3354698.
Lawson, William H., “No Small Thing: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1963 Freedom Vote” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348514.
Leach, James Daniel, “‘Into My Blood’: Louis Armstrong the Singer” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3348605.
Lewis, Janaka, “Freedom Promised, Freedom Told: Black Women’s Narratives of Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1861–1892” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3352580.
Lorts, Justin T., “Black Laughter/Black Protest: Civil Rights, Respectability, and the Cultural Politics of African American Comedy, 1934–1968” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349917.
Matthews, Lopez Denoble, “The Southern Negro Youth Congress: Its Legacy and Impact” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3344899.
Okado, Yasuhiro, “Gendering the ‘Black Pacific’: Race Conciousness, National Identity, and the Masculine/Feminine Empowerment among African Americans in Japan under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945–1952” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348160.
Pagel, Teresa Kathleen, “Native Sons, Native Daughters: Representations of the African American Spirit in August Wilson‘s ‘Jitney’” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009). Order No. DA3354545.
Peay, Aisha, “Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women’s Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970–1990” (Duke University, 2009). Order No. DA3350214.
Richards, Roger Charles, “Actions and Attitudes of Southern Baptists toward Blacks 1845–1895” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3348532.
Secovnie, Kelly O., “Translating the Transatlantic: West African Literary Approaches to African American Identity” (State University of New York, Albany, 2009). Order No. DA3352617.
Slay, David Henson, “New Masters on the Mississippi: The United States Colored Troops of the Middle Mississippi Valley” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352363.
Vietoris, John M., “‘A Golden Opportunity for Reaping a Harvest of Souls’: A History of Ministry to African American Catholics in Milwaukee, 1908–1963” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357976.
Williams, Jakobi Emon, “Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago: A Case Study of Fred Hampton, the Illinois Black Panther Party, and the Origin of the Rainbow Coalition” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3349440.
Wilson, Ronaldo V., “Black Bodies Black Field(s): 20th Century and Contemporary Poetics of the Black Body in African American Poetry and Visual Culture” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354677.
Woodworth, Griffin Mead, “‘Just Another One of God’s Gifts’: Prince, African-American Masculinity, and the Sonic Legacy of the Eighties” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3356535.
Adeleke, Tunde, The Case against Afrocentrism. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xiv, 223 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-293-1.)
Fink, Rob, Playing in Shadows: Texas and Negro League Baseball. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010. xxii, 165 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-701-4.)
Parker, Christopher S., Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle against White Supremacy in the Postwar South. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xviii, 266 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-691-14003-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-691-14004-9.)
Stamz, Richard E., Give ’Em Soul, Richard! Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv, 139 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03498-5. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07686-2.)
Walker, Juliet E. K., The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship,vol. 1: To 1865. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xxvi, 405 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3241-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5910-0.)
Fluker, Walter Earl, ed., The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, vol. 1: My People Need Me, June 1918–March 1936. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. cviii, 377 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-1-57003-804-4.)
Kornweibel, Theodore, Jr., Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xvi, 557 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9162-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Lloyd, Earl, and Sean Kirst, Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010. xl, 142 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0946-9.)
Singh, Nikhil Pal, ed., Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. viii, 319 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-520-25958-4.)
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