Special Issue

“Centennial Perspectives, 1915-2015”

Contents

THE POWER TO DEFINE: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOLARS, ACTIVISM, AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 1916-2015
V. P. Franklin… 1

THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION AND THE CENTRAL QUESTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Gerald Horne… 26

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS: FAMILY LEGACY AND ANTISLAVERY ACTIVISM
Margaret Washington… 59

BLACK/AFRICANA STUDIES, THEN AND NOW: RECONSTRUCTING A CENTURY OF INTELLECTUAL INQUIRY AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT, 1915-2015
James B. Stewart… 87

ESSAY REVIEW

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: DIPLOMAT, PROPHET, AND GLOBAL VISIONARY
Genna Rae McNeil… 119

BOOK REVIEWS

Terrance M. Weik, THE ARCHEOLOGY OF ANTISLAVERY RESISTANCE
Irvin D. S. Winsboro… 135

Lucia Stanton, “THOSE WHO LABOR FOR MY HAPPINESS”: SLAVERY AT THOMAS JEFFERSON’S MONTICELLO
Gregory D. Smithers… 137

Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell, eds., BURIED LIVES: INCARCERATION IN EARLY AMERICA
Marcus P. Nevius… 138

Lewis Clarke and Carver Gayton, NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF LEWIS CLARKE
Jack Carson… 142

Loren Schweninger, FAMILIES IN CRISIS IN THE OLD SOUTH: DIVORCE, SLAVERY, AND THE LAW
CaVar Reid… 143

Gregory D. Smithers, SLAVE BREEDING: SEX, VIOLENCE, AND MEMORY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Ira Lee Berlet… 145

Bland Simpson, TWO CAPTAINS FROM CAROLINA: MOSES GRANDY, JOHN NEWLAND MAFITT, AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
Antwain K. Hunter… 147

James M. Paradis, AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN
Kathryn Green… 150

Jim Downs, SICK FROM FREEDOM: AFRICAN-AMERICAN ILLNESS AND SUFFERING DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander… 151

Lawrence Schenbeck, RACIAL UPLIFT AND AMERICAN MUSIC, 1878-1943
Katharine Bausch… 154

Mabel O. Wilson, NEGRO BUILDING: BLACK AMERICANS IN THE WORLD FAIRS AND MUSEUMS
Taulby H. Edmondson… 156

Stephanie Leigh Batiste, DARKENING MIRRORS: IMPERIAL REPRESENTATION IN DEPRESSION-ERA AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMANCE
Joanna Dee Das… 158

Richard Bone and Richard A. Courage, THE MUSE IN BRONZEVILLE: AFRICAN AMERICAN CREATIVE EXPRESSION IN CHICAGO, 1932-1950
William H. Adams… 161

Clarence Taylor, REDS AT THE BLACKBOARD: COMMUNISM, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE NEW YORK CITY TEACHERS UNION
Robert Shaffer… 163

Benjamin Houston, THE NASHVILLE WAY: RACIAL ETIQUETTE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN A SOUTHERN CITY
Luther Adams… 165

Barrett J. Foerster, ed., RACE, RAPE, AND INJUSTICE: DOCUMENTING AND CHALLENGING DEATH PENALTY CASES IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
Danielle L. McGuire… 167

Gregory J. Kaliss, MEN’S COLLEGE ATHLETICS AND THE POLITICS OF RACIAL EQUALITY: FIVE PIONEER STORIES OF BLACK MANLINESS, WHITE CITIZENSHIP, AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
J. Anthony Guillory… 170

Gordon Mantler, POWER TO THE POOR: BLACK-BROWN COALITION AND THE FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE, 1960-1974
William Sturkey… 172

Jefferson Cowie, STAYIN’ ALIVE: THE 1970s AND THE LAST DAYS OF THE WORKING CLASS
Natasha Zaretsky… 174

Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman and Edmund W. Gordon, eds., THINKING COMPREHENSIVELY ABOUT EDUCATION: SPACES OF EDUCATIVE POSSIBILITY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Kathy-Anne Jordan… 176

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BOOKS RECEIVED – 2014… 180

Call for Papers: “Ten Point Program for Reparations for African Americans in the United States”… 194

Symposium

“The Legacy of Malcolm X: Black Nationalism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism”

Contents

INTRODUCTION - THE LEGACY OF MALCOLM X: BLACK NATIONALISM, INTERNATIONALISM, AND TRANSNATIONALISM
V. P. Franklin… 195

“HARLEM IS THE BLACK WORLD”: THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN UNITY AT THE GRASSROOTS
Gilbert Felber… 199

MALCOLM X AND THE ABORIGINAL BLACK POWER MOVEMENT IN AUSTRIALIA, 1967-1972
Alyssa L. Trometter… 226

MALCOLM X, THE MAU MAU, AND KENYA’S NEW REVOLUTIONARIES: A LEGACY OF TRANSNATIONALISM
Mickie Mwanzia Koster… 250

CENTENNIAL PERSPECTIVE

THE IMPACT OF U.S.-EDUCATED AFRICAN STUDENTS ON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN AFRICA, 1898–1955
Michael Omolewa… 272

ESSAY REVIEW

MALCOLM X: A LIVING ICON IN HIS OWN WORDS
Raymond A. Winbush… 290

A FREDERICK DOUGLASS FOR THE WORLD
Edward J. Blum… 294

CHRISTIANITY, COMMUNITY, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATER
J. Eve Lambert… 301

BOOK REVIEWS

James G. Basker, AMERICAN ANTISLAVERY WRITINGS: COLONIAL BEGINNING TO EMANCIPATION
Abu Jaraad Toure… 309

Ray A. Kea, A CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF GHANA FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE GOLD COAST IN THE AGE OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Badra Lahouel… 311

Darrel Dexter, BONDAGE IN EGYPT: SLAVERY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
Kerry Pimblott… 314

William C. Van Norman, SHADE GROWN SLAVERY: THE LIVES OF SLAVES ON COFFEE PLANTATIONS IN CUBA
Bonnie A. Lucero… 316

David S. Cecelski, THE FIRE OF FREEDOM: ABRAHAM GALLOWAY AND THE SLAVES’ CIVIL WAR
Samuel W Black… 318

Anya Jabour, TOPSY-TURVY: HOW THE CIVIL WAR TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN FOR SOUTHERN CHILDREN
Karen A. Johnson… 321

Hugh Davis, "WE WILL BE SATISFIED WITH NOTHING LESS”: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE IN THE NORTH DURING RECONSTRUCTION
Ashley M. Howard… 323

H. Paul Thompson, Jr., “A MOST STIRRING AND SIGNIFICANT EPISODE”: RELIGION AND THE RISE AND FALL OF PROHIBITION IN BLACK ATLANTA, 1865-1887
Nathan Saunders… 325

Thomas J. Davis, PLESSY v. FERGUSON
Mary Frances Berry… 327

Nina Reid-Maroney, THE REVEREND JENNIE JOHNSON AND AFRICAN CANADIAN HISTORY, 1868-1967
Dann J. Broyld… 328

Lee Sartain, BORDERS OF EQUALITY: THE NAACP AND THE BALTIMORE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE, 1914-1970
Andrew Joseph Pegoda… 331

Louis Ray, CHARLES H. THOMPSON: POLICY ENTRPRENEUR OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1932-1954
Jarvis R. Givens… 333

Michael Vinson Williams, MEDGAR EVERS: MISSISSIPPI MARTYR
Bertis English… 335

Kimberly L. Phillips, WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES AND THE U. S. MILITARY FROM WORDL WAR II TO IRAQ
Frank C. King, Jr…. 338

Brett Gadsden, BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH: DELAWARE, DESEGREGATION, AND THE MYTH OF AMERICAN SECTIONALISM
Louis Ray… 340

Gary May, BENDING TOWARD JUSTICE: THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Lauren Pearlman… 342

Salamishah Tillet, SITES OF SLAVERY: CITIZENSHIP AND RACIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS IMAGINATION
Renee Romano… 344

Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson, BLACKS AND WHITES IN CHRISTIAN AMERICA: HOW RACIAL DISCRIMINATION SHAPES RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS
Jualynne E. Dodson… 346

Michael Barnett, ed., RASTAFARI IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: A RASTAFARI READER
Henry T. Brownlee, Jr…. 348.

Vincent Lloyd, ed., RACE AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY
Andre E. Johnson… 351

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Papers: “Ten Point Program for Reparations for African Americans in the United States”… 354

Call for Papers: “African American Migration and Mobility after the Civil War, 1865-1915”… 356

Special Issue

“Gendering the Carceral State: African American Women, History, and the Criminal Justice System”

Guest Editors Kali N. Gross and Cheryl D. Hicks

Contents

INTRODUCTION – GENDERING THE CARCERAL STATE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, HISTORY, AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Kali N. Gross and Cheryl D. Hicks… 357

“UNDER THE STING OF THE LASH”: GENDERED VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND RESISTANCE IN THE SOUTH’S CONVICT CAMPS
Talitha L. LeFlouria… 366

“ARMED WITH A KNIFE IN HER BOSOM”: GENDER, VIOLENCE, AND THE CARCERAL CONSEQUENCES OF RAGE IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
Sowandé Mustakeem… 385

“WOMEN SLAIN IN QUEER LOVE BRAWL”: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, SAME-SEX DESIRE, AND VIOLENCE IN THE URBAN NORTH, 1920-1929
Cookie Woolner… 406

“SHE AIN’T NO ROSA PARKS”: THE JOAN LITTLE RAPE–MURDER CASE AND JIM CROW JUSTICE IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS SOUTH
Christina Greene… 428

ESSAY REVIEWS

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CRIMINAL (IN)JUSTICE AND INCARCERATION
LaShawn D. Harris… 448

THE GREATEST GENERATION REVISITED: HARLEM AT THE CROSSROADS OF POLITICS, CULTURE, AND BLACK WOMEN’S BIOGRAPHY
Tiffany M. Gill… 461

CENTENNIAL PERSPECTIVES

ON THE EDUCATION OF BLACK FOLK: W. E. B. DU BOIS AND THE PARADOX OF SEGREGATION
Derrick P. Alridge… 473

MILESTONES AND ARROWS: A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST DISCOVERS THE GLOBAL AFRICAN DIASPORA
Sheila S. Walker… 494

BOOK REVIEWS

Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet, eds., BIOGRAPHY AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC
William H. Alexander… 522

Luis Nicolau Parés, THE FORMATION OF CANDOMBLÉ: VODUN HISTORY AND RITUAL IN BRAZIL
John R. Tilghman… 525

Gordon S. Barker, FUGITIVE SLAVES AND THE UNFINISHED AMERICAN REVOLUTION: EIGHT CASES, 1848-1856
Shaun Wallace… 527

R. J. M. Blackett, MAKING FREEDOM: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY
Melissa Shaw… 529

David S. Reynolds, MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA
Eric Gardner… 531

Margot Minardi, MAKING SLAVERY HISTORY: ABOLITIONISM AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN MASSACHUSETTS
Katherine E. Rohrer… 533

Christian McWhirter, BATTLE HYMNS: THE POWER AND POPULARITY OF MUSIC IN THE CIVIL WAR
Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow… 536

Celeste-Marie Bernier, CHARACTERS OF BLOOD: BLACK HEROISM IN THE TRANSATLANTIC IMAGINATION
Tammie Jenkins… 538

Lara Putnam, RADICAL MOVES: CARIBBEAN MIGRANTS AND THE POLITICLS OF RACE IN THE JAZZ AGE
Lee Francis… 540

Michael K. Johnson, HOO-DOO COWBOYS AND BRONZE BUCKAROOS: CONCEPTIONS OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WEST
Jennifer Thornton… 542

Tracy E. K’Meyer, FROM BROWN to MEREDITH: THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR SCHOOL DESGREGATION IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 1954-2007
Vincent D. Willis… 544

M. J. O’Brien, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: THE JACKSON WOOLWORTH’S SIT-IN AND THE MOVEMENT IT INSPIRED
Tony Gass… 547

Robert B. McKersie, A DECISIVE DECADE: AN INSIDER’S VIEW OF THE CHICAGO CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
T. Evan Faulkenbury… 549

Simon Henderson, SIDELINED: HOW AMERICAN SPORTS CHALLENGED THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE
George B. Kirsch… 551

David Chalmers, AND THE CROOKED PLACES MADE STRAIGHT: THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE 1960s
Jerald Podair… 553

Sonia Song-Ha Lee, BUILDING A LATINO CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: PUERTO RICANS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AND THE PURSUIT OF RACIAL JUSTICE IN NEW YORK CITY
Martha Biondi… 556

Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, ed., WATCHING WHILE BLACK: CENTERING THE TELEVISION OF BLACK AUDIENCES
Yuya Kiuchi… 558

Timothy Havens, BLACK TELEVISION TRAVELS: AFRICAN AMERICAN MEDIA AROUND THE GLOBE
Amaela Wiley… 561

David Whiteis, SOUTHERN SOUL-BLUES
Anndretta Lyle Wilson… 564

Samantha Pinto, DIFFICULT DIASPORAS: THE TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST AESTHETIC OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC
Cheryl Smith… 566

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Papers: “Ten Point Program for Reparations for African Americans in the United States”… 570

Special Issue

“African American Education, Civil Rights, and Black Power”

Guest Editors Dionne Danns and Michelle A. Purdy

Contents

INTRODUCTION – HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND BLACK POWER
Dionne Danns and Michelle A. Purdy… 573

MORE THAN COOKIES AND CRAYONS: HEAD START AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1965-1968
Crystal Sanders… 586

COUREGOUS NAVIGATION: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS AT AN ELITE PRIVATE SCHOOL IN THE SOUTH, 1967-1972
Michelle A. Purdy… 610

BARBARA SIZEMORE AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND COMMUNITY CONTROL, 1963-1975
Elizabeth Todd-Breland… 636

SPECIAL REPORT

DOCUMENTING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
V. P. Franklin… 663

ESSAY REVIEWS

SEPARATE AND SUPERIOR: PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICAN SECONDARY EDUCATION
Dionne Danns… 672

POSSIBILITIES AND PARADOXES IN EDUCATIONAL EQUITY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
M. Christopher Brown II… 681

RECOVERING THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua… 693

CENTENNIAL PERSPECTIVES

“OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF EX-SLAVES”: CARTER G. WOODSON AND THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY “INVENTS” THE STUDY OF SLAVERY
Brenda E. Stevenson… 698

“BOUND TO THEM BY A COMMON SORROW”: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND COLLECTIVE ADVANCEMENT
Linda M. Perkins… 721

IN THE CATBIRD SEAT: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY
Olga E. Dugan… 748

BOOK REVIEWS

Katherine Howlett Hayes, SLAVERY BEFORE RACE: EUROPEANS, AFRICANS, AND INDIANS AT LONG ISLANDS’S SYLVESTER MANOR, 1651-1884
Emma Lapsansky-Werner… 774

Mary E. Frederickson and Delores M. Walters, eds., GENDERED RESISTANCE: WOMEN, SLAVERY, AND THE LEGACY OF MARGARET GARNER
Wilma King… 776

Christopher Hager, WORD BY WORD: EMANCIPATION AND THE ACT OF WRITING
Tiffany A. Flowers… 779

Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren, eds., JIM CROW, LITERATURE AND THE LEGACY OF SUTTON E. GRIGGS
Justin Rogers-Cooper… 781

Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith, eds., PICTURES AND PROGRESS: EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY and Samuel W. Black and Regennia N. Williams, THROUGH THE LENS OF ALLEN E. COLE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN CLEVELAND, OHIO
Bridget R. Cooks… 784

William D. Carrigan, and Christopher Waldrep, eds., SWIFT TO WRATH: LYNCHING IN GLOBAL HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Hettie V. Williams… 788

Sarah Caroline Thuesen, GREATER THAN EQUAL: AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLES FOR SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1919-1965
Maurice Adkins… 791

Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani, eds., ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: THE NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE BEYOND HARLEM
Monroe H. Little… 793

Lisa Phillips, A RENEGADE UNION: INTERRACIAL ORGANIZING AND LABOR RADICALISM
Eric R. Jackson… 796

John Matthew Smith, THE SONS OF WESTWOOD: JOHN WOODEN, UCLA, AND THE DYNASTY THAT CHEANGED COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Michael E. Lomax… 798

Ronald B. Neal, DEMOCRACY IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICA: RACE, CLASS, RELIGION, AND REGION
Randal Maurice Jelks… 800

Bobby L. Lovett, A TOUCH OF GREATNESS: A HISTORY OF TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
Danielle Chae’ Wingfield-Smith… 802

Angela McMillan Howell, RAISED UP DOWN YONDER: GROWING UP BLACK IN RURAL ALABAMA
Sharon G. Pierson… 803

Carole Boyce Davies, CARIBBEAN SPACES: ESCAPES FROM TWILIGHT ZONES
Iyelli Ichile… 805

ANNOUNCEMENTS

INDEX TO Vol. 100… 808

Call for Papers: “Ten Point Program for Reparations for African Americans in the United States”… 822