Recent Scholarship
African American
Berg, Allison, “Trauma and Testimony in Black Women’s Civil Rights Memoirs: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, Warriors Don’t Cry, and From the Mississippi Delta,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Fall 2009), 84–107.
Binggeli, Elizabeth, “The Unadapted: Warner Bros. Reads Zora Neale Hurston,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Summer 2009), 1–15.
Boustan, Leah Platt, “Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940–1970,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Sept. 2009), 755–82.
Catron, John, “Early Black–Atlantic Christianity in the Middle Colonies: Social Mobility and Race in Moravian Bethlehem,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Spring 2009), 301–45.
duCille, Ann, “Marriage, Family, and Other ‘Peculiar Institutions’ in African-American Literary History,” American Literary History, 21 (Fall 2009), 604–17.
Gasman, Marybeth, and Noah D. Drezner, “A Maverick in the Field: The Oram Group and Fundraising in the Black College Community during the 1970s,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Nov. 2009), 465–506.
Harvey, Phillip, “The View from Now: Trends in the Idiom of Young African American Artists,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 2, 2008), 2–14.
Hicks, Cheryl D., “‘Bright and Good Looking Colored Girl’: Black Women’s Sexuality and ‘Harmful Intimacy’ in Early-Twentieth Century New York,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (Sept. 2009), 418–56.
Jabir, Johari, “On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 649–70.
Jeong, Gyung-Ho, Gary J. Miller, and Itai Sened, “Closing the Deal: Negotiating Civil Rights Legislation,” American Political Science Review, 103 (Nov. 2009)
Joseph, Ralinda L., “‘Tyra Banks Is Fat’: Reading (Post-)Racism and (Post-)Feminism in the New Millenium,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26 (Aug. 2009), 237–54.
Lashley, Marilyn, “The Politics of Cognitive Dissonance: Spin, the Media, and Race (and Ethnicity) in the U.S. Presidential Election,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 39 (Winter 2009), 364–77.
Lowe, John, “Palette of Fire: The Aesthetics of Propaganda in Black Boy and In the Castle of My Skin,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Fall 2008), 553–80.
Luis-Brown, David, “An 1848 for the Americas: The Black Atlantic, ‘El Negro Mártir,’ and Cuban Exile Anticolonialism in New York City,” American Literary History, 21 (Fall 2009), 431–63.
Mayo-Bobee, Dinah, “Servile Discontents: Slavery and Resistance in Colonial New Hampshire, 1645–1785,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (Sept. 2009), 339–60.
McLeod, Ken, “The Construction of Masculinity in African American Music and Sports,” American Music, 27 (Summer 2009), 204–26.
Peterson, Jason, “A ‘Race’ for Equality: Print Media Coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos,” American Journalism, 26 (Spring 2009), 99–121.
Pettit, Becky, and Stephanie Ewert, “Employment Gains and Wage Declines: The Erosion of Black Women’s Relative Wages since 1980,” Demography, 46 (Aug. 2009), 469–92.
Pluth, Edward J., “A ‘Negro Colony’ for Todd County,” Minnesota History, 61 (Fall 2009), 312–24. Heavily illustrated.
Purnell, Brian, “Desegregating the Jim Crow North: Racial Discrimination in the Postwar Bronx and the Fight to Integrate the Castle Hill Beach Club (1953–1973),” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 47–78.
Purnell, Brian, and Oneka LaBennett, “The Bronx African American History Project (baahp) and Approaches to Scholarship about/for Black Communities,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 7–23.
Rambsy, Howard, II, “The Vengeance of Black Boys: How Richard Wright, Paul Beatty, and Aaron McGruder Strike Back,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Fall 2008), 643–58.
Redd, Emmett, and Nicole Etcheson, “‘Sound on the Goose’: A Search for the Answer to an Age Old ‘Question,’” Kansas History, 32 (Autumn 2009), 204–17. Heavily illustrated.
Rogers, William Warren, Jr., “‘For the Destruction of Radicalism’: A Reconstruction Case Study,” Alabama Review, 62 (July 2009), 190–209.
Thomas, Lynnell L., “‘Roots Run Deep Here’: The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 749–68.
Thompson, Cheryl, “Black Women, Beauty, and Hair as a Matter of Being,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Dec. 2009), 831–56.
Adams, Betty Livingston, “Fighting the Color Line in the ‘Ideal Suburb’: Working-Class Black Women and the Politics of Christian Activism in Summit, New Jersey, 1898–1945” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342547.
Boughton, Heather Rosemary, “Making the Choice: African-Americans and Decisions about Enrollment at Chartered and Non-chartered Public Schools” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3335867.
Browne, Errol Tsekani, “Anna Julia Cooper and Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Making of a Modern Race Woman, 1892–1925” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3343326.
Caro, Julie Levin, “Rooted in the Community: Black Middle Class Identity Performance in the Early Works of Allan Rohan Crite, 1935–1948” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3341562.
Chatelain, Marcia, “‘The Most Interesting Girl of This Country Is the Colored Girl’: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1899–1950” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335637.
Cooley, Will, “Moving Up, Moving Out: Race and Social Mobility in Chicago, 1914–1972” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3337744.
de la Cova, Carlina, “Silent Voices of the Destitute: An Analysis of African American and Euro-American Health during the Nineteenth Century” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331240.
Cox, Graham, “What Irony! Herbert C. Pell, Crimes against Humanity, and the Negro Problem” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3342759.
Cruscoe, Doris K., “Mothers, Children, Stereotypes, and Visual Culture: The African-American Experience Interpreted thorugh Art, 1940 to 2000” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3335307.
Davies, John, “Class, Culture, and Color: Black Saint-Dominguan Refugees and African-American Communities in the Early Repubilc” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3337415.
Driskell, Jay Winston, Jr., “Two Warring Souls: Black Nationalism, Patriotism, and the Roots of Independent Black Politics in Atlanta, Georgia, 1891–1924” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342579.
Gafford, Farrah D., “Life in the Park: Community Solidarity, Culture, and the Case of a Black Middle Class Neighborhood” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3338120.
Gbaba, Joseph Tomoonh-Garlodeyh, Sr, “The Chiandeh Afrocentric Curriculum and Textbook Experience: Exploring Children’s Responses to an Afrocentric Curriculum” (Saint Joseph’s University, 2008). Order No. DA3338427.
Goodhead, Dokubo M., “Toward a Critical Realist Reading of African and African Diaspora Literatures” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3345693.
Green, William H., “‘Tumultuous Meetings’ and the Fury of Freedom: Rethinking African American Religion” (Syracuse University, 2004). Order No. DA3343467.
Guèye, Khadidiatou, “Mapping the Liminal Identities of Mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean Literatures” (Pennsylvania State University, 2006). Order No. DA3343682.
Henry, Racquel L., “The Colonization Movement in Indiana, 1820–1864: A Struggle to Remove the African American” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3337278.
Hogan, Robin Michelle, “Emergent Female Leadership in African American Churches: Experiences, Barriers, and Issues” (Fielding Graduate Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3343848.
Holmes, Veronica Menezes, “Stories of Lynwood Park” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3342521.
Joyner, Marieta Davis, “Education of Deaf African Americans in Washington, D.C. and Raleigh, N.C. during the 19th and 20th Centuries, through the Eyes of Two Heroes and a Shero” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3340515.
Kinchen, Thomas Alexander, Jr, “‘Africa Is Doubtless to Be Evangelized’: Assessing Southern Baptist Mission Focus, Education, and Spiritual Awakening among Liberians, 1846–1880, through an Examination of the Ministries of John Day, John H. Cheeseman, and Boston J. Drayton” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3343438.
Majied-Muhammad Martinez, Wynona, “Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Social Reconstruction and African-American Converts to an Islamic Ethic” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3331187.
Moore, Louis Allen, “Liberty Has Come but Not Yet the Manhood It Was to Give: Black Prizefighters, Migration, and Racial and Class Tensions in Black America, 1882–1915” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3336303.
Morrison, Brian Courtney, “Selected African American Educational Efforts in Baltimore, Maryland during the Nineteenth Century” (Morgan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3336912.
Okada, Yasuhiro, “Gendering the ‘Black Pacific’: Race Consciousness, National Identity, and the Masculine/Feminine Empowerment among African Americans in Japan under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945–1952” (Michigan State University, 2008).
Powell, Esther Singleton, “Simon Green Atkins and the Development of Higher Education Opportunities for African Americans in the North Carolina Piedmont” (Northcentral University, 2008). Order No. DA3338737.
Purcell, Richard Errol, “Ralph Ellison and the American Pursuit of Humanism” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3335813.
Richardson, Tarron J., “The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Electoral Impact upon the African American Community in Richmond, Virginia” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008). Order No. DA3345115.
Russworm, TreaAndrea Marie, “Blackness Is Burning: Race and Psychoanalysis in Civil Rights Era Popular Culture” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338507.
Taylor, Corey Michael, “Ambiguous Sounds: African American Music in Modernist American Literature” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3337393.
Tsuchiya, Kazuyo, “Contesting Citizenship: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Participation in the U.S. and Japanese Welfare States, 1962–1982” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3336649.
Tucker, Kaylen Danielle, “Racial Choice at Century’s End in Contemporary African American Literature” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3339495.
Ud Din, Kamal, “Mother Utters: Struggle and Subversion in the Works of Gwndolyn Brooks” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3331483.
Warren, Wendy Anne, “Enslaved Africans in New England, 1638–1700” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342700.
Wheaton, Deidre Lyniece, “Seeking Salvation: Black Messianism, Racial Formation, and Christian Thought in Late Twentieth Century Black Cultural Texts” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343252.
Wood, John W., II, “Wally and Juanita Nelson and the Struggle for Peace, Equality, and Social Justice: 1935–1975” (Morgan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3336918.
Bass, Amy, Those about Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxiv, 198 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8166-4495-7.)
Foreman, P. Gabrielle, Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xviii, 255 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03474-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07664-0.)
Glasrud, Bruce A., and Charles A. Braithwaite, eds., African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. viii, 395 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8032-2667.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn, To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xii, 187 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5188-6.)
Konadu, Kwasi, A View from the East: Black Cultural Nationalism and Education in New York City. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 209 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3206-1.) Originally published in 2005.
Lambert, Frank, The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States’ Rights. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ix, 193 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-19-538042-2.)
London, Samuel G., Jr., Seventh-Day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. x, 194 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-272-6.)
Miller, Paul T., The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights: African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975. (New York: Routledge, 2010. xvi, 167 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-80601-5.)
Reed, Merl E., Educating the Urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University, 1913–1969. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xiv, 321 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-88146-148-0.)
Turner, Richard Brent, Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 182 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35357-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-22120-9.)
Walker, Vanessa Siddle, with Ulysses Byas, Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 293 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8078-3289-9.)
West, Michael O., William G. Martin, and Fanon Che Wilkins, eds., From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 318 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3309-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5972-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Bailey, D’Army, with Roger Easson, The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist’s Journey, 1959–1964. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xvi, 237 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3476-4.)
Ferris, William, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 302 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3325-4.) Includes cd and dvd.
Huntley, Horace, and John W. McKerley, eds., Foot Soldiers for Democracy: The Men, Women, and Children of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxxviii, 222 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03478-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07668-8.)
Wheeler, Peter, Chains and Freedom: Or, the Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man yet Living, a Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. x, 149 pp. Paper, $21.50, isbn 978-0-8713-5543-2.)
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