Recent Scholarship
African American
Anderson, James D., “Past Discrimination and Diversity: A Historical Context for Understanding Race and Affirmative Action,” Journal of Negro Education, 76 (Summer 2007), 204–15.
Berg, Manfred, “Black Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The naacp in the Early Cold War,” Journal of American History, 94 (June 2007), 75–96.
Boyd, Michelle R., “Integration and the Collapse of Black Social Capital: Nostalgia and Narrative in the Neoliberal City,” in New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America, ed. Jane L. Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams, 91–111. (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2008. xiv, 281 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-934691-01-4.)
DeVore, Donald E., “Water in Sacred Places: Rebuilding New Orleans Black Churches as Sites of Community Empowerment,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 762–69.
Dixie, Quinton, “Organizing God’s Children: The Denominational Tradition and the Problem of Black Baptist Unity,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Summer–Fall 2007), 8–18.
Early, Joe, Jr., “Richard Henry Boyd: Shaper of Black Baptist Identity,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Summer–Fall 2007), 91–104.
Frink, Sandra M., “‘Freedom is Everyone’s Job’: Segregation, Identity, and the Freedom Train Controversy in Memphis, Tennessee, 1947–1948,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 66 (Winter 2007), 329–49.
Hinger, Charlotte, “‘The Colored People Hold the Key’: Abram Thompson Hall Jr.’s Campaign to Organize Graham County,” Kansas History, 31 (Spring 2008), 32–47. Heavily illustrated.
Honey, Michael, “Forty Years since King: Labor Rights are Human Rights,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (April 2008), 18–21.
Jackson, Thomas F., “‘Bread of Freedom’: Martin Luther King Jr. and Human Rights,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (April 2008), 14–16.
Kahrl, Andrew W., “‘The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness’: Steamboat Excursions, Pleasure Resorts, and the Emergence of Segregation Culture on the Potomac River,” Journal of American History, 94 (March 2008), 1108–36.
Lechner, Zachary J., “‘Are We Ready for the Conflict?’: Black Abolitionist Response to the Kansas Crisis, 1854–1856,” Kansas History, 31 (Spring 2008), 14–31. Heavily illustrated.
Mobley, Kendal P., “‘What a Chasm There Is Between Us’: Charlotte Hawkins Brown and White Protestant Progressives, 1901–1952,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Summer–Fall 2007), 42–51.
Nasstrom, Kathryn L., “Between Memory and History: Autobiographies of the Civil Rights Movement and the Writing of Civil Rights History,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (May 2008), 325–64.
Ögretir, Ismail, “Bir azinlik-olus yazimi olarak Afrikali-Amerikan edebiyati: Deleuze-Guattarici bir yaklasim” (African-American literature as minority writing: A Deleuzian-Guattarician approach), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 42 (June–Aug. 2007), 75–86. In Turkish.
Shelley, Fred M., Kimberly J. Zerr, and Adrienne M. Proffer, “The Civil Rights Movement and Recent Electoral Realignment in the South,” Southeastern Geographer, 47 (May 2007), 13–26.
Smith, Valerie, “Princeton and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 85 (Fall/Winter 2007), 126–36.
Smoot, Pamela A., “African American Baptist Women: Making a Way Out of No Way,” Baptist History & Heritage, 42 (Summer–Fall 2007), 19–33.
Spero, Andrea McEvoy, “Human Rights: By Any Means Necessary,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (April 2008), 22–24.
Tomek, Beverly, “Seaking ‘an immutable pledge from the slave holding states’: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Black Resettlement,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Winter 2008), 26–53.
Van Sickle, Eugene S., “Hear Me for My Cause: The Politics of Colonization and the Maryland Plan, 1834–1843,” Maryland Historian, 31 (Fall 2007), 30–65.
Waalkes, Mary, and Donna Summerlin, “Flying below the Radar: Activist, Paternalist, and Obstructionist Responses to the Civil Rights Movement in Three East Tennessee Communities,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 66 (Fall 2007), 270–93. Heavily illustrated.
Addison, Wanda G., “Reclamation Voices: Self and Silence in Narratives by and about Black Women” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2007). Order No. DA3261761.
Aiello, Thomas, “The Kings of Casino Park: Race and Race Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932, Monroe, LA” (University of Arkansas, 2007). Order No. DA3276876.
Behnken, Brian David, “Fighting Their Own Battles: Blacks, Mexican Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3280559.
Bell, Joyce Marie, “Bringing the Movement Home: Black Social Workers’ Struggle for Power in the Profession, 1966–1976” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3273112.
Benjamin, Michael, “Print Culture, Agency, and Africanity: The Origins and Meaning of Murray’s ‘Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race Throughout the World’” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3268688.
Berg Burin, Nikki, “A Regency of Women: Female Plantation Management in the Old South” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263081.
Bey, Sharif, “Aaron Douglas and Hale Woodruff: The Social Responsibility and Expanded Pedagogy of the Black Artist” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3266076.
Busch, Arthelda McNeal, “The Adult Education Activities of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, Incorporated, in St. Louis, Missouri” (University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2007). Order No. DA3271303.
Dye, Keith, “The Detroit Beginnings of the Black Manifesto for Reparations Controversy, 1968–1969” (University of Toledo, 2007). Order No. DA3279604.
Edwards, Erica R., “Contesting Charisma: Political Leadership in Contemporary African American Culture” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3265267.
Farnell, Daniel Reese, Jr., “Alabama Courts and the Administration of Slavery, 1820–1860” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3265498.
Greene, Ousmane Kirumu, “Against Wind and Tide: African Americans’ Response to the Colonization Movement and Emigration, 1770–1865” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007). Order No. DA3275805.
Guild, Joshua Bruce, “You Can’t Go Home Again: Migration, Citizenship, and Black Community in Postwar New York and London” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267257.
Haidarali, Laila, “‘The vampingest vamp is a brownskin’: Colour, Sex, Beauty, and African American Womanhood, 1920–1954” (York University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR29327.
Hardee, Terrence Antonio, “Affirmative Rights: The Future of Civil Rights Organizations in the Twenty-First Century” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3268704.
Harris, Sean J., “Found Insane in ‘the Holy Land’: Psychiatry and the African American Experience in Illinois, 1870–1910” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3274129.
Hinderer, Moira Elizabeth, “Making African-American Childhood: Chicago, 1915–1945” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3273019.
Jones-Cole, Peatchola, “Mississippi Freedom Schools: A Response Strategy to the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi” (University of Memphis, 2007). Order No. DA3263705.
Mahala, Macelle R., “Better Recognize: African American Theatre as a Politics of Cultural Practice” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263120.
McGuire, Danielle L., “At the Dark End of the Street: Sexualized Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3277307.
Minardi, Margot Lee, “The Inevitable Negro: Making Slavery History in Massachusetts, 1770–1863” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265044.
Mizell, Linda, “‘Not All Fools and Self-Seekers’: Defining Equal Education for African Americans in the Progressive Era” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3271695.
Morris, Susana M., “Reclaiming Mother’s Body: Narratives of Transformation and Motherhood in African American and African Caribbean Women’s Literature, 1970–2005” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264089.
Patterson, Robert J., “Many Are Invited, but Few Are Chosen: Civil Rights, Historical Memory, and the Figure of the ‘Chosen’ One in the African American Literary Tradition, 1971–1989” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264094.
Ruffin, Herbert G., II, “Uninvited Neighbors: Black Life and the Racial Quest for Freedom in the Santa Clara Valley, 1777–1968” (Claremont Graduate University, 2007). Order No. DA3272793.
Ryan, William Randolph, “The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3267787.
Scriven, Olivia A., “The Politics of Particularism: hbcus, Spelman College, and the Struggle to Educate Black Women in Science, 1950–1997” (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007). Order No. DA3271589.
Sears, Christine E., “A Different Kind of Slavery: American Captives in Barbary, 1776–1830” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3267182.
Williams, Diana Irene, “‘They call it marriage’: The Interracial Louisiana Family and the Making of American Legitimacy” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265126.
Woodard, Laurie Avant, “Performing Artists of the Harlem Renaissance: Resistance, Identity, and Meaning in the Life and Work of Fredi Washington from 1920 to 1950” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267384.
Benussi, Silvia, Le donne afroamericane negli Stati Uniti (African American women in the United States). (Milan: Angeli, 176 pp. €16.00, isbn 8846487710.) In Italian.
Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds., The Martin Luther King Jr. Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xliv, 404 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-29440-2.)
Djata, Sundiata, Blacks at the Net, vol. 2: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xviii, 270 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0898-1.)
Dunklin, Arthur L., African American Men and Opportunity in the Navy: Personal Histories of Eight Chiefs. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. viii, 176 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3699-6.)
Foner, Eric, Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xxiv, 142 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3289-0.) Originally published in 1983.
Houck, Davis W., and Matthew A. Grindy, Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. xvi, 213 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-934110-15-7.)
Kirk, John A., ed., An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xxvi, 190 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-55728-874-5.)
Postma, Johannes, Slave Revolts. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xx, 200 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-313-33854-0.)
Regosin, Elizabeth A., and Donald R. Shaffer, eds., Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7586-8. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-7587-5.)
Smith, John David, An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xxii, 314 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8093-2844-4.) Originally published in 1985.
Stewart, James Brewer, Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xvi, 236 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-634-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-55849-635-4.)
Vanepps-Taylor, Betti, Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2008. xviii, 287 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-9777955-5-0.)
Young, Andrew, An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2008. 550 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-60258-073-2.) Second edition.
Alexander, Shawn Leigh, ed., T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xliv, 294 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3232-0.)
Clague, Mark, ed., The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xvi, 367 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-520-25131-1.)
Ernest, John, ed., Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. x, 211 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3196-0. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5890-5.)
Ogden, Dunbar H., My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. xxii, 170 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8265-1592-6.)
Shifflett, Crandall, ed., John Washington’s Civil War: A Slave Narrative. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 106 pp. Cloth, $36.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3301-9. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3302-6.)
White, Deborah Gray, ed., Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 291 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3201-1. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5881-3.)
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