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
The Journal of
African American History
Volume 95
2010
Volume 95, No. 1 Winter 2010


“THE NEWEST RELIGIOUS SECT HAS STARTED IN LOS ANGELES”: RACE, CLASS, ETHNICITY, AND THE
ORIGINS OF
THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT, 1906 – 1913
Marne L.
Campbell                                                                                                                                                                                        1

BLACK VIGILANTISM: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LYNCH MOB ACTIVITY IN THE
MISSISSIPPI AND ARKANSAS DELTAS, 1882-1923
Karlos K.
Hill                                                                                                                                                                                                26

“DETROIT WAS HEAVY”:  MODERN JAZZ, BEBOP, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN
EXPRESSIVE CULTURE
Anthony
Macías                                                                                                                                                                                            
44

EVOLVING CONCEPTIONS OF PAN-AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP: W.E.B. DU BOIS, CARTER G. WOODSON, AND
THE “ENCYCLOPEDIA AFRICANA,” 1909-1963
Jonathan
Fenderson                                                                                                                                                                                        
71

ESSAY REVIEW
AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATORS MISCONSTRUED
Donna Jordan-
Taylor                                                                                                                                                                                     92

BOOK REVIEWS
T. Stephen Whitman, CHALLENGING SLAVERY IN THE CHESEPEAKE: BLACK AND WHITE RESISTANCE TO
HUMAN BONDAGE, 1775-1865
Hillary
Moss                                                                                                                                                                                                 
101

Vanessa D. Dickerson, DARK VICTORIANS
Geta
LeSeur                                                                                                                                                                                                
   103

Lawrence A.Q. Burnley, THE COST OF UNITY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN AGENCY AND EDUCATION IN
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 1865-1914
Jeffrey Aaron
Snyder                                                                                                                                                                                     106

Ramla M. Bandele, BLACK STAR: AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVISM IN THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL
ECONOMY
J. D.
Jackson                                                                                                                                                                                              
     108

Nancy Goldstein, JACKIE ORMES: THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN CARTOONIST
A. Lynn
Bolles                                                                                                                                                                                                
110

Gerald Horne, THE END OF EMPIRES: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND INDIA
Murali
Balaji                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  112

Derek Charles Catsam, FREEDOM’S MAIN LINE: THE JOURNEY OF RECONCILIATION AND THE FREEDOM
RIDES
John H.
Barnhill                                                                                                                                                                                              
 115

David M. Battles, THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC LIBRARY ACCESS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH OR,
LEAVING BEHIND THE PLOW
Kathryn L.
Green                                                                                                                                                                                            
117

Chris Meyers Asch, THE SENATOR AND THE SHARECROPPER: THE FREEDOM STRUGGLES OF JAMES O.
EASTLAND
AND FANNIE LOU HAMMER
Emilye
Crosby                                                                                                                                                                                               
 118

Anne M. Valk, RADICAL SISTERS: SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM AND BLACK LIBERATION IN WASHINGTON
Linda A.
Causey                                                                                                                                                                                              
121

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, DEEPER SHADES OF PURPLE: WOMANISM IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Gayle T.
Tate                                                                                                                                                                                                  
123

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., IN A SHADE OF BLUE: PRAGMATISM AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK AMERICA
Stephanie A.
Wilms                                                                                                                                                                                         126

Maisha T. Fisher, BLACK LITERATE LIVES: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
Lauren
Wells                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  128

Christopher B. Strain, BURNING FAITH: CHURCH ARSON IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Barclay
Key                                                                                                                                                                                                    
130

Derek S. Hyra, THE NEW URBAN RENEWAL: THE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION OF HARLEM AND
BRONZEVILLE
Gokhan
Savas                                                                                                                                                                                                  
132

ANNOUNCEMENTS
BOOKS RECEIVED—
2009                                                                                                                                                                              135

CARTER G. WOODSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIPS, 2009-
2010                                                                                             141                      

                                                             
Volume 95, No. 2, Spring 2010
                     Special Issue-“Explorations within the African Diaspora”

INTRODUCTION: EXPLORATIONS WITHIN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
V. P.
Franklin                                                                                                                                                                                              
   151

RICE, RESISTANCE, AND FORCED TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITIES: (RE)ENVISIONING THE AFRICAN
DIASPORA
IN THE LOW COUNTRY GEORGIA, 1750-1800
Karen B.
Bell                                                                                                                                                                                                 
157

THE LONGUE DURÉE OF AFRICANS IN MEXICO:  THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF RACIALIZATION,
ACCULTURATION,
AND AFRO-MEXICAN SUBJECTIVITY
Irene A.
Vasquez                                                                                                                                                                                           
183

THE VIRGEN IN THE MIRROR:  READING IMAGES OF A BLACK MADONNA THROUGH THE LENS OF
AFRO-CUBAN WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES
Elizabeth
Perez                                                                                                                                                                                              
202

ORGANIZING WITHIN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: CLAUDE H. A. DENBOW,
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, AND THE LEAGUE OF COLOURED PEOPLES
Barbara P.
Josiah                                                                                                                                                                                           229

ESSAY REVIEW
LYNCHING AND MOB VIOLENCE: CHALLENGING THE DOMINANT NARRATIVES
Ashley M.
Howard                                                                                                                                                                                       248

BOOK REVIEWS
Patricia Causey Nichols, VOICES OF OUR ANCESTORS: LANGUAGE CONTACT IN EARLY SOUTH CAROLINA
Christopher
Daniels                                                                                                                                                                                       257

Randolph Scully, RELIGION AND THE MAKING OF NAT TURNER’S VIRGINIA: BAPTIST COMMUNITY
AND CONFLICT, 1740-1840
Quenton L.
Keatts                                                                                                                                                                                         259

Milton C. Sernett, HARRIET TUBMAN: MYTH, MEMORY, AND HISTORY
Margaret
Washington                                                                                                                                                                                     
260

Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, EXILES AT HOME: THE STRUGGLE TO BECOME AMERICAN IN CREOLE NEW
ORLEANS
Andrew
Bond                                                                                                                                                                                                 
262

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. HARLEM RENAISSANCE LIVES FROM
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
A’Lelia
Bundles                                                                                                                                                                                             
264

Thomas Dyja, WALTER WHITE: THE DILEMMA OF BLACK IDENTITY IN AMERICA
Bala
Baptiste                                                                                                                                                                                             
    267

Sondra Gordy, FINDING THE LOST YEAR: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN LITTLE ROCK CLOSED ITS PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
Gail L.
Thompson                                                                                                                                                                                         
269

Troy Jackson, BECOMING KING: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR AND THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL LEADER
Jonathan
Walton                                                                                                                                                                                            
271

Jonathan Rieder, THE WORD OF THE LORD IS UPON ME: THE RIGHTEOUS PERFORMANCE OF
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Brian
Purnell                                                                                                                                                                                                
  273

Frederick Douglass Opie, HOG AND HOMINY: SOUL FOOD FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA
Helen Zoe
Veit                                                                                                                                                                                              275

Melanye T. Price, DREAMING BLACKNESS: BLACK NATIONALISM AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC
OPINION
Carole Lynn
Stewart                                                                                                                                                                                     278

Robert H. Bates, WHEN THINGS FELL APART: STATE FAILURE IN LATE-CENTURY AFRICA
Mary
Dillard                                                                                                                                                                                                
280

Dambisa Moyo, DEAD AID: WHY AID IS NOT WORKING AND HOW THERE IS A BETTER WAY FOR AFRICA
Beverly
Grier                                                                                                                                                                                                 
282

Jessica Adams, WOUNDS OF RETURNING: RACE, MEMORY, AND PROPERTY ON THE POSTSLAVERY
PLANTATION
Andrea A.
Burns                                                                                                                                                                                            
285

Peggy Pascoe, WHAT COMES NATURALLY: MISCEGENATION LAW AND THE MAKING OF RACE IN AMERICA
Ann S.
Holder                                                                                                                                                                                                
  287

ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                                                                                                      
                 290

                             Volume 95, Nos. 3-4,  Summer-Fall 2010
Special Issue-“To Be Heard in Black and White: Historical Perspectives on Black Print Culture”

INTRODUCTION: TO BE HEARD IN BLACK AND WHITE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK PRINT
CULTURE
V. P.
Franklin                                                                                                                                                                                              
   291

VACCINATING FREEDOM: SMALLPOX PREVENTION AND THE DISCOURSES
OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IN ANTEBELLUM PHILDELPHIA
Dayle B.
DeLancey                                                                                                                                                                                       
296

JOEL AUGUSTUS ROGERS: BLACK INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM, ARCHIVAL RESEARCH,
AND BLACK PRINT CULTURE
Thabiti
Asukili                                                                                                                                                                                              
322

“I WANT TO BECOME A PART OF HISTORY”: FREEDOM SUMMER, FREEDOM SCHOOLS,
AND THE FREEDOM NEWS
William
Sturkey                                                                                                                                                                                             
348

“BLACK WORLD VIEW”: THE INSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD’S PROMOTION
OF PRAGMATIC NATIONALISM, 1969-1974
Derrick E.
White                                                                                                                                                                                            
369

“WE ARE ALL PRISONERS”: PRIVILEGING PRISON VOICES IN BLACK PRINT CULTURE
Maisha T.
Winn                                                                                                                                                                                             
392

ESSAY REVIEWS
LITERACY, RHETORIC, AND 19TH CENTURY BLACK PRINT CULTURE
Jacqueline
Bacon                                                                                                                                                                                           417

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN HISTORIANS TELL THEIR STORIES
Linda M.
Perkins                                                                                                                                                                                           
424

BOOK REVIEWS
Frances Smith Foster, ed.  LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN EARLY AFRICAN AMERICA
Thavolia
Glymph                                                                                                                                                                                           
431

Christine Levecq, SLAVERY AND SENTIMENT: THE POLITICS OF FEELING IN BLACK ATLANTIC
ANTISLAVERY WRITING, 1770-1850
Sergio
Lussana                                                                                                                                                                                              
 433

Maurice Jackson, LET THIS VOICE BE HEARD: ANTHONY BENEZET, FATHER OF ATLANTIC ABOLITIONISM
Marcus P.
Nevius                                                                                                                                                                                          435

Peter Blanchard, UNDER THE FLAGS OF FREEDOM: SLAVE SOLDIERS AND THE WARS OF
INDEPENDENCE IN SPANISH SOUTH AMERICA
Jeffrey R. Kerr-
Ritchie                                                                                                                                                                                  437

Barbara Brooks Tomblin, BLUEJACKETS AND CONTRABANDS: AFRICAN AMERICANS THE UNION NAVY
Steven J.
Ramold                                                                                                                                                                                            
440

Gunja SenGupta, FROM SLAVERY TO POVERTY: THE RACIAL ORIGINS OF WELFARE IN NEW YORK, 1840-1918
James H.
Adams                                                                                                                                                                                             
442

Joe M. Richardson and Maxine D. Jones, EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION: THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY AND
AFRICAN AMERICANS, 1890 TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Courtney
Lyons                                                                                                                                                                                            
444

Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., INFECTIOUS FEAR: POLITICS, DISEASE, AND THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF
SEGREGATION
Julie
Sze                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    446

Susan D. Pennybacker, FROM SCOTTSBORO TO MUNICH: RACE AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN 1930s BRITAIN
Charles H.
Ford                                                                                                                                                                                              
449

Andrew J. Diamond, MEAN STREETS: CHICAGO YOUTHS AND THE EVERYDAY STRUGGLE FOR
EMPOWERMENT
IN THE MULTIRACIAL CITY, 1908-1969
Joan Marshall
Wesley                                                                                                                                                                                     451

Lisa Levenstein, A MOVEMENT WITHOUT MARCHES: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE POLITICS
OF POVERTY IN POSTWAR PHILADELPHIA
Françoise N.
Hamlin                                                                                                                                                                                      453

Lorna Rivera, LABORING TO LEARN: WOMEN’S LITERACY AND POVERTY IN THE POST-WELFARE ERA
Elizabeth
Bridges                                                                                                                                                                                            
456

Jeffrey E. Anderson, VOODOO, HOODOO, AND CONJURE: A HANDBOOK
David
Childs                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 457

Michael Nash, ISLAM AMONG URBAN BLACKS: MUSLIMS IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A SOCIAL HISTORY
Jamie J.
Wilson                                                                                                                                                                                              
460

Mary E. McGann, ed., LET IT SHINE! THE EMERGENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CATHOLIC WORSHIP
Uche
Egemonye                                                                                                                                                                                          
   462

Wendell E. Pritchett, ROBERT CLIFTON WEAVER AND THE AMERICAN CITY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
AN URBAN REFORMER
Zebulon Vance
Miletsky                                                                                                                                                                              465

Alton Hornsby, Jr., BLACK POWER IN DIXIE: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ATLANTA
Christopher M.
Tinson                                                                                                                                                                                467

David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen, eds., RECONSTRUCTING FAME: SPORT, RACE, AND EVOLVING
REPUTATIONS
Robert Anthony Bennett
III                                                                                                                                                                         469

David R. Roediger, HOW RACE SURVIVED IN U. S. HISTORY: FROM SETTLEMENT AND SLAVERY TO
THE OBAMA PHENOMENON
Gerald
Horne                                                                                                                                                                                                 
471

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, SOMETHING TORN AND NEW: AN AFRICAN RENAISSANCE
Babacar M’
Baye                                                                                                                                                                                           473

ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                                                                                                      
                476

INDEX TO VOLUME
95
                                                                                                                                                                                479
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