Recent Scholarship
African American
Adams, Jane, and D. Gorton, “This Land Ain’t My Land: The Eviction of Sharecroppers by the Farm Security Administration,” Agricultural History, 83 (Spring 2009), 323–51.
Aiello, Thomas, “The Southern against the South: The Chicago Conspiracy in the 1932 Negro Southern Baseball League,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Spring 2009), 7–27.
Anderson, Michael, “Lorraine Hansberry’s Freedom Family,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 259–69.
Araki, Wakako, “Kaiho-min kyoiku ‘jikken’ to tasha keisei: Hokugun senryochi deno aborishonisuto niyoru dorei kaiho” (The ‘experiment’ of the education of freedmen and the making of the other: The liberation of slaves by the abolitionists in the occupied area), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (no. 707, 2009), 33–48. In Japanese.
Berrey, Stephen A., “Resistance Begins at Home: The Black Family and Lessons in Survival and Subversion in Jim Crow Mississippi,” Black Women, Gender, and Families, 3 (Spring 2009), 65–90.
Bobo, Lawrence D., and Michael C. Dawson, “A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency,” Du Bois Review, 6 (March 2009), 1–14.
Broussard, Jinx Coleman, and Skye Chance Cooley, “Ebony’s Era Bell Thompson Travels the World to Tell the Story,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 7–30.
Childs, Dennis, “‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’: Beloved, the American Chain Gang, and the Middle Passage Remix,” American Quarterly, 61 (June 2009), 271–97.
DePuydt, Peter J., “Free at Last, Someday: Senator Outerbridge Horsey and Manumission in the Nineteenth Century,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Spring 2009), 164–78.
Dossett, Kate, “‘I Try to Live Somewhat in Keeping with My Reputation as a Wealthy Woman’: A’Lelia Walker and the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Summer 2009), 90–114.
Dunak, Karen M., “Ceremony and Citizenship: African American Weddings, 1945–60,” Gender & History (Oxford), 21 (Aug. 2009), 402–24.
Elam, Harry J., Jr., and Michele Elam, “Blood Debt: Reparations in Langston Hughes’s Mulatto,” Theatre Journal, 61 (March 2009), 85–103.
Fiske, Susan T., et al., “Images of Black Americans: Then, ‘Them,’ and Now, ‘Obama!,’” Du Bois Review, 6 (March 2009), 83–101.
Ford, Richard Thompson, “Barack Is the New Black: Obama and the Promise/Threat of the Post–Civil Rights Era,” Du Bois Review, 6 (March 2009), 37–48.
Frystak, Shannon, “Oretha Castle Haley: ‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,’” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 303–23. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Gershenhorn, Jerry, “‘Not an Academic Affair’: African American Scholars and the Development of African Studies Programs in the United States, 1942–1960,” Journal of African American History, 94 (Winter 2009), 44–68.
Grano, Daniel A., “Muhammad Ali versus the ‘Modern Athlete’: On Voice in Mediated Sports Culture,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26 (June 2009), 191–211.
Gregory, James N., “The Second Great Migration: A Historical Overview,” in African American Urban History since World War II, ed. Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter, 19–38. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 536 pp. Cloth, $83.00, isbn 978-0-226-46509-8. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-226-46510-4.)
Harris, Carmen V., “‘Well I Just Generally Bes the President of Everything’: Rural Black Women’s Empowerment through South Carolina Home Demonstration Activities,” Black Women, Gender, and Families, 3 (Spring 2009), 91–112.
Harris, Lashawn, “Running with the Reds: African American Women and the Communist Party during the Great Depression,” Journal of African American History, 94 (Winter 2009), 21–43.
Herdlein, Richard, Christine Frezza Cali, and Joanne Dina, “Deans of Women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Story Left Untold,” Journal of Negro Education, 77 (Fall 2008), 291–305.
Hughes, Richard A., “Boston University School of Theology and the Civil Rights Movement,” Methodist History, 47 (April 2009), 146–61.
Inwood, Joshua F. J., “Searching for the Promised Land: Examining Dr. Martin Luther King’s Concept of the Beloved Community,” Antipode, 41 (June 2009), 487–508.
Jefferson, Alison Rose, “African American Leisure Space in Santa Monica: The Beach Sometimes Known as the ‘Inkwell,’ 1900s–1960s,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Summer 2009), 155–89. Heavily illustrated.
Johnson-Bailey, Juanita, et al., “Lean on Me: The Support Experiences of Black Graduate Students,” Journal of Negro Education, 77 (Fall 2008), 365–81.
Joseph, Peniel E., “Rethinking the Black Power Era,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 707–16.
Kaneko, Ayumu, “Bukka T. Washinton no seijiteki kenriron niokeru jinshu, kaikyu, jenda” (Race, class, and gender in Booker T. Washington’s conceptualization of political rights), Hokudai Shigaku (Sapporo), 48 (Dec. 2007), 98–134. In Japanese.
Kimball, Bruce A., “‘This Pitiable Rejection of a Great Opportunity’: W. E. B. Du Bois, Clement G. Morgan, and the Harvard University Graduation of 1890,” Journal of African American History, 94 (Winter 2009), 5–20.
Kimble, Lionel, Jr., “‘The Only Way to Get What’s Coming to Us’: African American Coalition Building and Veterans’ Rights in Post–World War II Chicago,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Spring 2009), 53–70.
Klassen, Teri, “Representations of African American Quiltmaking: From Omission to High Art,” Journal of American Folklore, 122 (Summer 2009), 297–334.
Kurosaki, Makoto, “Amerika kominken undo niokeru kyokai no yakuwari saiko” (A reassessment of the roles of churches in the American civil rights movement), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 31 (2008), 73–90. In Japanese.
Leab, Daniel J., Michael Nash, and David Levering Lewis, “Remembering the Jacksons,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 163–74.
Lewis, David Levering, “James and Esther Jackson: A Historical Assessment,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 181–90.
Lowe, John W., “The Transnational Vision of Richard Wright’s Pagan Spain,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 69–99.
Lowrance, Mason, and Jan Pilditch, “Writing the Law: Literature and Slavery in Nineteenth Century America,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 66–82.
McDermott, Stacy Pratt, “‘Black Bill’ and the Privileges of Whiteness in Antebellum Illinois,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Spring 2009), 2–26.
Minor, James T., “A Contemporary Perspective on the Role of Public hbcus: Perspicacity from Mississippi,” Journal of Negro Education, 77 (Fall 2008), 323–35.
Mollano, Kara, “Race, Roads, and Right-of-Way: A Campaign to Block Highway Construction in Fort Madison, 1967–1976,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Summer 2009), 255–97.
Murata, Katsuyuki, “‘Jinshu no choteisha’ no yu’utso: Deividdo Dinkinzu to Kuraun Haitsu bodo” (Gloomy days for a racial conciliator: David N. Dinkins and the Crown Heights disturbance), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 87–106. In Japanese.
Nash, Michael, and Daniel J. Leab, “Freedomways,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 227–37.
O’Brien, Colleen C., “‘Blacks in All Quarters of the Globe’: Anti-imperialism, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism, and International Labor in Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Journalism,” American Quarterly, 61 (June 2009), 245–70.
Ongiri, Amy Abugo, “Prisoner of Love: Affiliation, Sexuality, and the Black Panther Party,” Journal of African American History, 94 (Winter 2009), 69–86.
Patterson, Jean A., et al., “Educating for Success: The Legacy of an All-Black School in Southeast Kansas,” Journal of Negro Education, 77 (Fall 2008), 306–22.
Pearl, Monica B., “‘Sweet Home’: Audre Lorde’s Zami and the Legacies of American Writing,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (Aug 2009), 297–319.
Randall, Ruth, “Family Lore and Effects of Slavery on the Black Psyche: Rosa Grammar’s Choice,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (June 2009), 85–96.
Richards, Johnetta, “Fundamentally Determined: James E. Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson and the Southern Negro Youth Congress, 1937–1946,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 191–202.
Rzeszutek, Sara E., “‘All Those Rosy Dreams We Cherish’: James Jackson and Esther Cooper’s Marriage on the Front Lines of the Double Victory Campaign,” American Communist History, 7 (Dec. 2008), 211–25.
Salafia, Matthew, “Searching for Slavery: Fugitive Slaves in the Ohio River Valley Borderland, 1830–1860,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Winter 2008), 38–63.
Williams, Megan E., “‘Meet the Real Lena Horne’: Representations of Lena Horne in Ebony Magazine, 1945–1949,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (April 2009), 117–30.
Beavers, Karen, “Lead Man Holler: Harry Belafonte and the Culture Industry” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3324995.
Benson-Smith, Dionne, “Lacking Legitimacy: Race, Gender, and the Social Construction of African American Women in Welfare Policy, 1935–2006” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323038.
Bond, Adam L., “What the Law Cannot Do: Samuel DeWitt Proctor’s Theological Response to an American Crisis, 1945–1997” (Marquette University, 2008). Order No. DA3326754.
Bucknor, Wayne Frederick Antonio, “The Changing Role of Music in the Liturgy of the African American Seventh-Day Adventist Church: Guidelines for Improving Its Qualitative Use” (University of Alabama, 2008). Order No. DA3334605.
Burns, Andrea Alison, “‘Show Me My Soul!’: The Evolution of the Black Museum Movement in Postwar America” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3328293.
Collisson, Craig, “The Fight to Legitimize Blackness: How Black Students Changed the University” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3328385.
Cook, Karen Joyce, “Freedom Libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project: A History” (University of Alabama, 2008). Order No. DA3334610.
Edge, Thomas John, “‘The Social Responsibility of the Administrator’: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and the Dilemma of Black Leadership, 1890–1976” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3325148.
Firven, Michael Shane, Jr., “From Paternalism to Black Power: Civil Rights, the Black Panther Party, and the Evolution of Black Leadership in New Orleans, Louisiana” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3330764.
Francis, Megan Ming, “Crime and Citizenship: The naacp’s Campaign to End Racial Violence, 1909–1923” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3333848.
Frazier, Nishani, “Harambee Nation: Cleveland core, Community Organization, and the Rise of Black Power” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA333339.
Gibson, Maya C., “Alternate Takes: Billie Holiday at the Intersection of Black Cultural Studies and Historical Musicology” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3327772.
Glocke, Aimee, “Is the Black Aesthetic Dead? Positing the Black Aesthetic as the Foundation for the Black Novel” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326332.
Golland, David Hamilton, “Constructing Affirmative Action: Federal Contract Compliance and the Building Construction Trades, 1956–1973” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3325474.
Gordon, Michelle Yvonne, “Black Literature of Revolutionary Protest from Chicago’s South Side: A Local Literary History, 1931–1959” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3327962.
Heinrich, Robert, “Montgomery: The Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacies” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3316490.
Hollowell, Deonte Jamar, “Control and Resistance: An Afrocentric Analysis of the Historical and Current Relationship between African Americans and the Police” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326340.
Johnson, Lakesia D., “The Iconography of the Black Female Revolutionary and New Narratives of Justice” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3325579.
Kahrl, Andrew William, “On the Beach: Race and Leisure in the Jim Crow South” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3319888.
McCabe, C. Wilbert, “African American Sacred Music: An Afrocentric Historical Narrative” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326602.
Messer, Chris, “The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Determining Its Causes and Its Framing” (Oklahoma State University, 2008). Order No. DA3324684.
Miller, Paul T., “The Interplay of Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in the Experience of San Francisco’s African American Community, 1945–1975” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3319971.
Platt, Matthew Bartholomew, “The Normalization of Black Politics: Essays on the Evolution of Black Agenda Setting in Post-war America” (University of Rochester, 2008). Order No. DA3326558.
Reeves, Donna Elizabeth, “Battle for an Image: Black Memphians Define Their Place in Southern History” (Memphis State University, 2008). Order No. DA3328204.
Rogers, Dennis Bernard, “Politics and the Pulpit in the African-American Church: A Theoretical Investigation of Four Pastor Politicians” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3330767.
Schroeder, Elizabeth R., “The Chicago Black Renaissance: Exercises in Aesthetic Ideology and Cultural Geography in Bronzeville, 1932–1945” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324214.
Sims, Angela D., “Just Act: Ida B. Wells and Ethical Complications of Lynching” (Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education, 2008). Order No. DA3326576.
Sorett, Josef, “Spirit Soundings: Religion, Race, and the Arts in Twentieth Century America” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3334799.
Stutman, Craig Michael, “Reconstruction in the Mind of W. E. B. Du Bois: Myth, Memory, and the Meaning of American Democracy” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326382.
Vasconcellos, Tina, “In Their Words: Life Stories of Native Born, African American Women Enrolled in an Urban Community College” (Colorado State University, 2008). Order No. DA3332735.
Vincent, Frederick Lewis, “The Lumpen: Music on the Front Lines of the Black Revolution” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331828.
Williams, Gloria-Yvonne, “A Passion for Social Equality: Mary McLeod Bethune’s Race Woman Leadership and the New Deal” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3327458.
Williams, Michael Vinson, “Medgar Wiley Evers and the Meaning of Civil Rights Struggle in Mississippi, 1925–1963: A Biographical Assessment” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3329531.
Curry, Dawne, Y., Eric D. Duke, and Marshanda A. Smith, eds., Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xx, 306 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03459-6. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07652-7.)
Flamming, Douglas, African Americans in the West. (Santa Barbara: abc-clio, 2009. xxiv, 353 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-59884-002-5.)
Luczak, Ewa, and Antoszek Andrzej, eds., Czarno na bialym: Afroamerykanie którzy poruszyli Ameryke (Down in black and white: The Afro-Americans who touched America). (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2009. 335 pp. zl. 37, isbn 978-9-323-50595-2.) In Polish.
Luke, Bob, The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 192 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9116-8.)
Manning, Patrick, The African Diaspora: A History through Culture. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxiv, 394 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-231-14470-4.)
Noble, Dennis L., and Truman R. Strobridge, Captain ‘Hell Roaring’ Mike Healy: From American Slave to Arctic Hero. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xx, 326 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3368-6.)
Seniors, Paula Marie, Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. xvi, 292 pp. $54.95, isbn 978-0-8142-1100-7.)
Smock, Raymond W., Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xii, 223 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-725-1.)
Turner, Elizabeth Hayes, Women and Gender in the New South, 1865–1945. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2009. xxiv, 271 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88295-265-9.)
Wells, Keiko, Kokujin reika wa ikiteiru: Kashi de Yomu Amerika (The black spirituals are living: Reading America through lyrics). (Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 2008. 226 pp. ¥3,360, isbn 978-4-00022-884-8.) In Japanese.
Coggswell, Gladys Caines, comp., Stories from the Heart: Missouri’s African American Heritage. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xviii, 141 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1844-5.)
Fosl, Catherine, and Tracy E. K’Meyer, Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xvi, 309 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2549-7.)
McCabe, Katie, and Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xvi, 259 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-60473-132-3.)
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