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| The Journal of African American 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 138
“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 138
| 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
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