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Bean, Christopher R., “The Freedmen’s Bureau and Logistical Problems in Texas, 1865–1868,” Military History of the West, 39 (2009), 1–20.

Bonastia, Christopher, “White Justifications for School Closings in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1959–1964,” Du Bois Review, 6 (Sept. 2009), 309–33.

Canady, Andrew McNeill, “The Limits to Improving Race Relations in the South: The ymca Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1906–1930,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (Oct. 2009), 404–36.

Chaput, Erik J., and Russell J. DeSimone, “Strange Bedfellows: The Politics of Race in Antebellum Rhode Island,” Common-Place, 10 (Jan. 2010), http://www.common-place.org.

Cleary, Patricia, “How Did Living in an Outpost of Empire Influence Perceptions of Women’s Sexual, Marital, and Public Roles in Eighteenth-Century Colonial St. Louis?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (March 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000999939.

Friedman, Barbara G., and John D. Richardson, “‘A National Disgrace’: Newspaper Coverage of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign in the South and Beyond,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 224–32.

Gillis, William, “Say No to Busing and the Liberal Media: Backlash against the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times, 1975–76,” Journalism History, 35 (Winter 2010), 216–28.

Gordon, Leah N., “The Individual and ‘the General Situation’: The Tension Barometer and the Race Problem at the University of Chicago, 1947–1954,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (Winter 2010), 27–51.

Hatle, Elizabeth Dorsey, and Nancy M. Vaillancourt, “‘One Flag, One School, One Language’: The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s,” Minnesota History, 61 (Winter 2009–2010), 360–71. Heavily illustrated.

Kimball, Gary, “William Jefferson Hardin: A Grand but Forgotten Park City African American,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2010), 23–38. Heavily illustrated.

K’Meyer, Tracy E., “‘Well, I’m Not Moving’: Open Housing and White Activism in the Long Civil Rights Movement,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 2 (June 2009), 1–24.

Lyne, Bill, “God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth: James Baldwin’s Black Radicalism,” Science & Society, 74 (Jan. 2010), 12–36.

Norman, Matthew, “The Other Lincoln-Douglas Debate: The Race Issue in a Comparative Context,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 31 (Winter 2010), 1–21.

Riehm, Edith Holbrook, “How Did White Southern Churchwomen Use Their Race, Gender, and Faith in the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1945–1968?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Sept. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000966295.

Tillery, Alvin B., Jr., “Tocqueville as Critical Race Theorist: Whiteness as Propety, Interest Convergence, and the Limits of Jacksonian Democracy,” Political Research Quarterly, 62 (Dec. 2009), 639–52.

Walton, Laura Richardson, “Organizing Resistance: The Use of Public Relations by the Citizens’ Council in Mississippi, 1954–64,” Journalism History, 35 (Spring 2009), 23–33.

Ware, Leland, and David C. Wilson, “Jim Crow on the ‘Down Low’: Subtle Racial Appeals in Presidential Campaigns,” St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary, 24 (Fall 2009), 299–342.

 

Bawardi, Hani J, “Arab American Political Organizations from 1915 to 1951: Assessing Transnational Political Conciousness and the Development of Arab American Identity” (Wayne State University, 2009). Order No. DA3349964.

Bottiger, Patrick Gary, “Two Towns, Multiple Places: Race and Identity on the Early Republic’s Frontier” (University of Oklahoma, 2009). Order No. DA3352819.

Bradford, Jesse William, “American/Muslims: Reactive Solidarity, Identity Politics, and Social Identity Formation in the Aftermath of September 11th” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3350949.

Camp, Stacey Lynn, “Materializing Inequality: The Archaelogy of Citizenship and Race in Early 20th Century Los Angeles” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3351429.

Cannon, Tina Nicole, “Cowtown and the Color Line: Desegregating Fort Worth’s Public Schools” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3350320.

Crawford, Theodore Wesley, “From Segregation to Independence: African Americans in Churches of Christ” (Vanderbilt University, 2008). Order No. DA3346808.

Deener, Andrew Scott, “Venice, California: Community, Diversity, and the Politics of Urban Change in a Los Angeles Beach Town” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3347022.

Freij, Maysoun, “The Lighter Side of Evil: Arab American Artists in New York” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3349974.

Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa, “When Black Becomes White: The Problem of Racial Passing in American Life” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3350906.

Huang, Yan, “Racial Differences in Households’ Financial Asset Allocation, 1992–2004” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3349027.

Joy, Natalie Irene, “Hydra’s Head: Fighting Slavery and Indian Removal in Antebellum America” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3351604.

Keller, Matthew Raymond, “Re-drawing the Color Line: How National Commissions Explained Collective Violence in the 20th Century” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3350740.

Mei, Leyla, “The Color of Cancer: Disease and the Measure of Race in the United States from the 1920s to the 1990s” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354666.

Morgan, Eric J., “Into the Struggle: Confronting Apartheid in the United States and South Africa” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009). Order No. DA33545618.

Rolph, Stephanie Renee, “Displacing Race: White Resistance and Conservative Politics in the Civil Rights Era” (Mississippi State University, 2009). Order No. DA3352300.

Smith, Susan Mary, “The Evolution of an Integrated School District in Southwestern Ohio: The Winton Woods School District, a Case Study” (University of Cincinnati, 2009). Order No. DA3353793.

Stowell, Susan Jane, “The Wäda-Tika of the Former Malheur Indian Reservation” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3350797.

Walker, Madeline Ruth, “Sauling Around: The Trouble with Conversion in African American and Mexican American Autobiography, 1965–2002” (University of Victoria, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR47324.

Ware, William J, “African/Native Cherokees: The Politics of Ethnic Identity” (Union Institute, 2009). Order No. DA3351166.

 

Farber, Paul, and Hamilton Cravens, eds., Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. 234 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-87071-576-1.)

Moore, Eileen C., Race Results: Hollywood vs. the Supreme Court; Ten Decades of Racial Decisions and Film. (Beverly Hills: Cool Titles, 2009. 305 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-935270-00-3.)

Reid, Debra A., ed., Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quest for Justice. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xxvi, 196 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-118-6. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-1-60344-230-0.)

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