The Journal of African American History
Formerly The Journal of Negro History
Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916
A Publication of the
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
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The Journal of
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History

Volume 93
2008
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Contents:

“AN EQUAL CHANCE IN THE RACE FOR LIFE”: REVERDY C. RANSOM, SOCIALISM, AND THE
SOCIAL GOSPEL MOVEMENT, 1890-1920

Cornelius L. Bynum                                                                                                       1

COLE AND JOHNSON’S THE RED MOON, 1908-1910: REIMAGINING AFRICAN AMERICAN AND
NATIVE AMERICAN FEMALE EDUCATION AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE

Paula Marie Seniors                                                                                                    21  

HEDDA HOPPER, HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP, AND THE POLITICS OF RACIAL REPRESENTATION IN
FILM, 1946-1948

Jennifer Frost                                                                                                               36


ESSAY REVIEWS


ON THE HISTORY OF THE JAMAICAN MAROONS

Laurent Dubois                                                                                                            64

ORDINARY GERMANS, SLAVERY, AND THE U.S. CIVIL WAR

Kenneth Barkin                                                                                                            70

RESEARCHING CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Walter Hill, Jr.                                                                                                             80


SPECIAL REPORTS


“CIRCLES OF LEARNING”: EXPLORING THE LIBRARY OF CARTER G. WOODSON

Bobby J. Donaldson                                                                                                     88

IN VOGUE: JOSEPHINE BAKER AND BLACK CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN THE JAZZ AGE

Bettye J. Gardner and Niani Kilkenny                                                                          94


BOOK REVIEWS


Eric Robert Taylor, IF WE MUST DIE: SHIPBOARD INSURRECTIONS IN THE ERA OF THE
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

Sylvia M. Jacobs                                                                                                          99

Denis R. Caron, A CENTURY IN CAPITIVITY: THE LIFE AND TRIALS OF PRINCE MORTIMER, A
CONNECTICUT SLAVE

Edward J. Robinson, Jr.                                                                                              101

Hyman Rubin, III, SOUTH CAROLINA SCALAWAGS

W. Lewis Burke                                                                                                            103

Rebecca J. Scott, DEGREES OF FREEDOM: LOUISIANA AND CUBA AFTER SLAVERY

Charles Vincent                                                                                                             105

Antonio F. Holland, NATHAN B. YOUNG AND THE STRUGGLE OVER BLACK HIGHER EDUCATION

Richard M. Breaux                                                                                                       107

Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard, eds., POST-BELLUM, PRE-HARLEM: AFRICAN
AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 1877-1919

Barbara L. Green                                                                                                         109

Douglas Henry Daniels, ONE O’CLOCK JUMP: THE UNFORGETTABLE HISTORY OF THE
OKLAHOMA BLUE DEVILS

Bil Banks                                                                                                                      111

Garth E. Pauley, LBJ’s AMERICAN PROMISE: THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ADDRESS

Michael Ezra                                                                                                                114

Simon Wendt, THE SPIRIT AND THE SHOTGUN: ARMED RESISTANCE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR
CIVIL RIGHTS

Hasan Kwame Jeffries                                                                                                 115

Renee C. Romano, RACE MIXING: BLACK-WHITE MARRIAGE IN POSTWAR AMERICA

Amadu Jacky Kaba                                                                                                      118

Sharon O’Foran, LITTLE ZION: A CHURCH BAPTIZED BY FIRE

Maurice J. Hobson                                                                                                       120

Leigh Raiford and Renee C. Romano, eds., THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICAN
MEMORY

Sandra Jowers-Barber                                                                                              122

R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Dianne Savage, eds., WOMEN AND RELIGION IN THE AFRICAN
DIASPORA: KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND PERFORMANCE

Ida Jones                                                                                                                     124

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, BLACK HISTORY: “OLD SCHOOL” BLACK HISTORIANS AND THE HIP HOP
GENERATION

Stefan Bradley                                                                                                              126

Heiki Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen, eds., AFROASIAN ENCOUNTERS: CULURE,
HISTORY, POLITICS

Audrey Thomas McCluskey                                                                                           128



BOOKS RECEIVED                                                                                                          131

ANNOUNCEMENTS



CARTER G. WOODSON LECTURERS, 2007-2008
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Volume 93, No. 1      Winter 2008
Volume 93, No. 2                                                                            Spring 2008

Special Issue: “Discourses on Race, Sex, and African American Citizenship”

Guest Editor, Melinda Chateauvert


Contents:

INTRODUCTION – DISCOURSES ON RACE, SEX, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
  Melinda Chateauvert

WHAT’S SEX GOT TO DO WITH IT? RACE, POWER, CITIZENSHIP, AND “INTERMEDIATE
IDENTITIES” IN THE POST-EMANCIPATION UNITED STATES
  Ann S. Holder

ENTERTAINING CITIZENSHIP: MASCULINITY AND MINSTRELSY IN POST-EMANCIPATION SAN
FRANCISCO
  Lynn M. Hudson

FRAMING SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP: RECONSIDERING THE DISCOURSE ON AFRICAN AMERICAN
FAMILIES
  Melinda Chateauvert

“RECKLESS EYEBALLING”: THE MATT INGRAM CASE AND THE DENIAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
SEXUAL FREEDOM
  Mary Frances Berry

THE BODY, SEXUALITY, AND SELF-DEFENSE IN STATE vs. JOAN LITTLE,
1974-1975
  Genna Rae McNeil


ESSAY REVIEWS

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BLACK CHURCH
  Angelique L. Harris

REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF BLACK STUDIES
  Alan Colón


BOOK REVIEWS

James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, eds., SLAVERY AND PUBLIC HISTORY: THE TOUGH
STUFF OF AMERICAN MEMORY
  Richard P. Fuke

Gerald Horne, THE DEEPEST SOUTH: THE UNITED STATES, BRAZIL, AND THE AFRICAN SLAVE
TRADE
  Chris Dixon

Anthony Tibbles, ed., TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY: AGAINST HUMAN DIGNITY
  Lois Merriweather Moore

Jacqueline Bacon, FREEDOM’S JOURNAL: THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
  Mitch Kachun

Erskine Clarke, DWELLING PLACE: A PLANTATION EPIC
  Jenifer Barclay

Sylvaine A. Diouf, DREAMS OF AFRICA IN ALABAMA: THE SLAVE SHIP CLOTILDA AND THE LAST
AFRICANS BROUGHT TO AMERICA
  Debra Newman Ham

Wilma King, AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRHOODS: HISTORICAL PERSECTIVES FROM SLAVERY
TO CIVIL RIGHTS
  Diana Slaughter-Defoe

Jack Hamann, ON AMERICAN SOIL: HOW JUSTICE BECAME A CASUALTY OF WORLD WAR II
  Kwame Dixon

Samuel W. Black, ed., SOUL SOLDIERS: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE VIETNAM ERA
  Clyde C. Robertson

Winston A. Grady-Willis, CHALLENGING U.S. APARTHEID: ATLANTA AND BLACK STRUGGLES
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 1960-1977
  Gregory Mixon

Vernon J. Williams Jr., THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THEORIES OF RACE
  Nancy-Elizabeth Fitch

Keith Byerman, REMEMBERING THE PAST IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION
  Leslie Campbell Grant

Steven L. Isoardi, THE DARK TREE: JAZZ AND THE COMMUNITY ARTS IN LOS ANGELES
  Michael Lang

John T. Barber, THE BLACK DIGITAL ELITE: AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS IN THE
INFORMATION REVOLUTION
 Yuya Kuichi

Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas, eds., GLOBALIZATION AND RACE:
TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF BLACKNESS
  Yolanda T. Moses


ANNOUNCEMENTS