Recent Scholarship
Race
Abdullah, Zain, “Sufis on Parade: The Performance of Black, African, and Muslim Identities,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 77 (June 2009), 199–237.
Adams, Bluford, “World Conquerors or a Dying People? Racial Theory, Regional Anxiety, and the Brahmin Anglo-Saxonists,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (April 2009), 189–216.
Bankhurst, Benjamin, “A Looking-Glass for Presbyterians: Recasting a Prejudice in Late Colonial Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (Oct. 2009), 317–48.
Barreto, Matt A., Mara Cohen-Marks, and Nathan D. Woods, “Are All Precincts Created Equal? The Prevalence of Low-Quality Precincts in Low-Income and Minority Communities,” Political Research Quarterly, 62 (Sept. 2009), 445–58.
Bayor, Ronald H., “Another Look at ‘Whiteness’: The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 29 (Fall 2009), 13–30.
Bowen, Michael D., “The Strange Tale of Wesley and Florence Garrison: Racial Crosscurrents of the Postwar Florida Republican Party,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2009), 1–29.
Branton, Regina P., “The Importance of Race and Ethnicity in Congressional Primary Elections,” Political Research Quarterly, 62 (Sept. 2009), 459–73.
Camp, Jordan T., “‘We Know This Place’: Neoliberal Racial Regimes and the Katrina Circumstance,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 693–718.
Campbell, James T., “Settling Accounts? An Americanist Perspective on Historical Reconciliation,” American Historical Review, 114 (Oct. 2009), 963–77.
Chappel, David, “Uma pedra de esperança: A fé profética, o liberalismo e a morte das leis Jim Crow” (A stone of hope: Prohetic faith, liberalism, and the death of Jim Crow), Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), 13 (no. 25, 2008), 75–108. In Portugese.
Chung, Kyung Hee, “Damunwhajueui Nonjaeng: Damrongwa Gudo” (The controversy over multiculturalism: Discourse and division), Yoksakyoyuk, 110 (June 2009), 211–42. In Korean.
Clark, John L., Jr., “Archie Bleyer and the Lost Influence of Stock Arrangements in Jazz,” American Music, 27 (Summer 2009), 138–79.
Dubek, Laura, “’Til Death Do Us Part: White Male Rage in Richard White’s Savage Holiday,” Mississippi Quarterly, 61 (Fall 2008), 593–614.
Dunn, Christopher, “A toma negra e o Big Easy: Raça, cultura e discurso em Salvador e Nova Orleans” (Black Rome and Big Easy: Race, culture, discourse in Salvador and New Orleans), Afro-Ásia, 37 (2008), 119–51. In Portugese.
Gamache, Ray, “Sport as Cultural Assimilation: Representations of American Indian Athletes in the Carlisle School Newspaper,” American Journalism, 26 (Spring 2009), 7–37.
Griffin, Larry J., and Kenneth A. Bollen, “What Do These Memories Do? Civil Rights Remembrance and Racial Attitudes,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Aug. 2009), 594–614.
Hartnell, Anna, “Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 723–48.
Holloway, Pippa, “‘A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote’: Disfranchisement for Larceny in the South, 1874–1890,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Nov. 2009), 931–62.
Justesen, Benjamin R., “‘The Class of ’83’: Black Watershed in the North Carolina General Assembly,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (July 2009), 282–308.
Karr, Steven M., “The Warner’s Ranch Indian Removal: Cultural Adaption, Accommodation, and Continuity,” California History, 86 (no. 4, 2009), 24–43. Heavily illustrated.
Kish, Zenia, “‘My fema People’: Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 671–92.
Klein, James E., “Writ Large and Small: State and Local Race Relations and the Meridan ‘Race Riot’ of 1926,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Summer 2009), 166–86.
Lightfoot, Natasha, “A Transnational Sense of ‘Home’: Twentieth-Century West Indian Immigration and Institution Building in the Bronx,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 25–46.
Love, Erik, “Confronting Islamophobia in the United States: Framing Civil Rights Activism among Middle Eastern Americans,” Patterns of Prejudice (London), 43 (July 2009), 401–25.
Malczewski, Joan, “Weak State, Stronger Schools: Northern Philanthropy and Organizational Change in the Jim Crow South,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Nov. 2009), 963–1000.
Mgbako, Ofole, “‘My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land’: Racial Redefinition, African American Culture, and the Creation of the Black World in South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement,” Safundi, 10 (July 2009), 305–34.
Oakley, Deirdre, Jacob Stowell, and John R. Logan, “The Impact of Desegregation on Black Teachers in the Metropolis, 1970–2000,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 32 (Nov. 2009), 1576–98.
Okuda, Akiyo Ito, “‘A Nation Is Born’: Thomas Dixon’s Vision of White Nationhood and His Northern Supporters,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (Sept. 2009), 214–31.
Opie, Frederick Douglass, “Developing Their Minds without Losing Their Soul: Black and Latino Student Coalition-Building in New York, 1965–1969,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 79–108.
Paddison, Joshua, “Anti-Catholicism and Race in Post–Civil War San Francisco,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Nov. 2009), 505–44.
Parker, Emily, “‘Night-Shirt Knights’ in the City: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Worcester, Massachusetts,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 62–78.
Rivers, Patrick Lynn, “Race, Sex, and Violence and the Problem of Agency in North Carolina, 1889–1903,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 34–49.
Roby, Megan, “The Push and Pull Dynamics of White Flight: A Study of the Bronx between 1950 and 1980,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 45 (Spring–Fall 2008), 34–55.
Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, “‘Justice Mocked’: Violence and Accountability in New Orleans,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 477–98.
Smithers, Gregory D., “Barack Obama and Race in the United States: A History of the Future,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 1–16.
Strauss, Emily E., “Unequal Pieces of a Shrinking Pie: The Struggle between African Americans and Latinos over Education, Employment, and Empowerment in Compton, California,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Nov. 2009), 507–29.
Sze, Julie, et al., “Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta,” Antipode, 41 (Sept. 2009), 807–43.
Worden, Daniel, “Birth in the Briar Patch: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Problem of Racial Identity,” Southern Literary Journal, 41 (Spring 2009), 1–20.
Zecker, Robert M., “‘Let Each Reader Judge’: Lynching, Race, and Immigrant Newspapers,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 29 (Fall 2009), 31–66.
Airey, Isabelle, “The Nexus between Language and Identity in the Caribbean/Caribbean American Context” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338195.
Anderson, Susan Willoughby, “The Past on Trial: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, Civil Rights Memory, and the Remaking of Birmingham” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3331038.
Aslakson, Kenneth Randolph, “Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans’ Three-Caste Society, 1791–1812” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3345892.
Butler, Rita C., “The Reality of Fiction: Diagnosing White Culture through the Lens of Mother/Nature in Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Seraph on the Suwanee’” (Florida Atlantic University, 2008). Order No. DA3338440.
Carter, Gregory Thomas, “America’s New Racial Heroes: Mixed Race Americans and Ideas of Novelty, Progress, and Utopia” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3345886.
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.
Cochran, David, “Revolutionary Antislavery: Birth of an American Propetic Tradition” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331247.
Connor, Michan Andrew, “Creating Cities and Citizens: Municipal Boundaries, Place Entrepreneurs, and the Production of Race in Los Angeles County, 1926–1978” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341718.
Cooley, Will, “Moving Up, Moving Out: Race and Social Mobility in Chicago, 1914–1972” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3337744.
Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, “‘Courageous Negro Servitors’ and Laboring Irish Bodies: An Examination of Antebellum-Era Modern American Gynecology” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335952.
Delmont, Matthew F., “‘American Bandstand’ and School Segregation in Postwar Philadelphia” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335645.
Edwards, Tonia M., “From Boyz to the Banlieue: Race, Nation, and Mediated Resistance” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331250.
Felhousen-Giles, Kristy, “To Prove Who You Are: Freedmen Identities in Oklahoma” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3336780.
Feller, Laura Janet, “Constructing and Contesting Color Lines: Tidewater Native Peoples and Indianness in Jim Crow Virginia” (George Washington University, 2009). Order No. DA3336760.
Gonzales, Alfonso, “Anti-migrant Hegemony in a Transnational North America” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3342978.
Macharia, Keguro, “Queer Natives” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3337854.
Martindale, Vivian F., “Lingítx Haa Sateeyí, We Who Are Tlingit: Contemporary Tlingit Identity and the Ancestral Relationship to the Landscape” (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2008). Order No. DA3337644.
Medina, Néstor, “‘Race,’ Culture, and Faith: (Re)mapping the Development of Mestizaje in Theology” (University of St. Michael’s College, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR43217.
Mikkelsen, Vincent, “Coming from Battle to Face a War: The Lynching of Black Soldiers in the World War I Era” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3336077.
Miletsky, Zebulon V., “City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class, and Color in Boston, 1890–1930” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3337029.
Miller, Melinda C., “Essays on Race and the Persistence of Economic Inequality” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343164.
Molloseau, Erika Damita’jo, “Exhibiting Racism: The Cultural Politics of Lynching Photography Re-presentations” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3335799.
Paddison, Joshua Allen, “American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3343324.
Pierce, Jason, “Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3341230.
Russworm, TreaAndrea Marie, “Blackness Is Burning: Race and Psychoanalysis in Civil Rights Era Popular Culture” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338507.
Sandosharaj, Alice, “Ghetto Proclivities: Race and Class in a Model Minority Memoir” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3339454.
Thompson, Katrina Dyonne, “Choreographing Race: An Analysis of Black Performance and White Audience” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3337607.
Ward, Jason Morgan, “Saving Segregation: Southern Whites, Civil Rights, and the Roots of Massive Resistance, 1936–1954” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342735.
Wharton, Jonathan L., “Politics, Paradigms, and Perceptions: The Racial, Generational, and Urban Development Implications of the 2002 and 2006 Newark Mayoral Elections” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3335323.
Koditschek, Theodore, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, and Helen A. Neville, eds., Race Struggles. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 339 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03449-7. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07648-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Yang, Hongseok, Gogyihan Yaman (The noble savage). (Seoul: Dongguk University Press, 2008. 296 pp. Won 15,000, isbn 978-89-780-1225-6.) In Korean.
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