CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN THE WESTERN STATES V.P. Franklin Page 1
UNDAUNTED COURAGE AND FAITH: THE LIVES OF THREE BLACK WOMEN IN THE WEST AND HAWAII IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY Karen A. Johnson Page 4
FORGOTTEN HERITAGE: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE MONTANA TERRITORY, 1864-1889 Barbara Carol Behan Page 23
IDAHO EBONY: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESENCE IN IDAHO STATE HISTORY Mamie O. Oliver Page 41
LIVING THE LOS ANGELES RENAISSANCE: A TALE OF TWO BLACK COMPOSERS Kenneth H. Marcus Page 55
ESSAY REVIEW
PATRIARCHY, POLITICS, AND POWER: THE LAW, RAPE, RACE, AND REALITY IN SLAVERY AND SEGREGATION Thomas J. Davis Page 73
SPECIAL REPORT
THE KNOWN WORLD OF BLACK SLAVEHOLDERS: A RESEARCH NOTE ON THE SCHOLARSHIP OF CARTER G. WOODSON Thomas J. Pressly Page 81
BOOK REVIEWS
John Ernest, LIBERATION HISTORIOGRAPHY: AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS AND THE CHALLENGE OF HISTORY P. Sterling Stuckey Page 88
William A. Blair, CITIES OF THE DEAD: CONTESTING THE MEMORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE SOUTH, 1865-1914 Omar H. Ali Page 90
Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers, FOR A GREAT AND GRAND PURPOSE: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE AMEZ CHURCH IN FLORIDA, 1864-1905 Jamie Jaywann Wilson Page 92
Ronne Hartfield, ANOTHER WAY HOME: THE TANGLED ROOTS OF RACE IN ONE CHICAGO FAMILY Alfred L. Woods Page 94
Kevin Boyle, ARC OF JUSTICE: A SAGA OF RACE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND MURDER I N THE JAZZ AGE Elizabeth M. Smith Page 95
Bob Kuska, HOT POTATO: HOW WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK GAVE BIRTH TO BLACK BASKETBALL AND CHANGED AMERICA’S GAME FOREVER Donald Spivey Page 97
Charles L. Zelden, THE BATTLE FOR THE BLACK BALLOT: SMITH V. ALLWRIGHT AND THE DEFEAT OF THE TEXAS WHITE PRIMARY Patrick D. Jones Page 99
Joseph Dorinson and William Pencak, eds., PAUL ROBESON: ESSAYS ON HIS LIFE AND LEGACY William M. King Page 101
Lester P. Lee, Jr. Page 103
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, BLACK POWER: RADICAL POLITICS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY Peniel E. Joseph Page 104
Vije Franchi and Norman Duncan, eds., PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PRACTICE IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA Robert Van Niekerk Page 107
Maureen Mahon, RIGHT TO ROCK: THE BLACK ROCK COALITION AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF RACE Henry T. Brownlee, Jr. Page 109
BOOKS RECEIVED Page 112
ANNOUNCEMENTS Page 117
Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Lecturers, 2005-2006 Page 120
Volume 91, No. 2 Spring 2006
CONTENTS
“DERE WERE NO PLACE IN HEAVEN FOR HIM, AN’ HE WERE NOT DESIRED IN HELL”: IGBO CULTURAL BELIEFS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK EXPRESSIONS Jennifer Hildebrand 127
HAZEL SCOTT: A CAREER CURTAILED Dwayne Mack 153
SNCC, BLACK POWER, AND INDEPENDENT POLITICAL PARTY ORGANIZING IN ALABAMA, 1964-1966 Hasan Kwame Jeffries 171
RACE NOT SPACE: A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF GANGS IN CHICAGO John M. Hagedorn 194
COMMENTARY: ON RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACIES V.P. Franklin 209
BOOK REVIEWS
Scott Trafton, EGYPT LAND: RACE AND NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA EGYPTOMANIA Wilson J. Moses 212
Thomas C. Buchanan, BLACK LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI: SLAVES, FREE BLACKS, AND THE WESTERN STEAMBOAT WORLD Luther J. Adams 213
Nathalie Dessens, MYTHS OF THE PLANTATION SOCIETY: SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND THE WEST INDIES Tony Martin 216
Frederick J. Blue, NO TAINT OF COMPROMISE: CRUSADERS IN ANTISLAVERY POLITICS Eric Gardner 217
Nathan Grant, MASCULINIST IMPULSES: TOOMER, HURSTON, BLACK WRITING, AND MODERNITY Alicia Casey Baum and Dwonna Naomi Goldstone 219
Paul Harvey, FREEDOM’S COMING: RELIGIOUS CULTURE AND THE SHAPING OF THE SOUTH FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA Michael Pasquier 221
Ben Green, BEFORE HIS TIME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF HARRY T. MOORE, AMERICA’S FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS MARTYR Stephanie Y. Evans 223
Steve S. Estes, I AM A MAN!: RACE, MANHOOD, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Howell Williams 226
Christopher B. Strain, PURE FIRE: SELF-DEFENSE AS ACTIVISM IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA Simon Wendt 228
Kenneth T. Andrews, FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE: THE MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND ITS LEGACY Mary N. Oluonye 230
Bertram Levine, RESOLVING RACIAL CONFLICT: THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS, 1964-1989 John H. Barnhill 232
Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, eds. FREEDOM NORTH: BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES OUTSIDE THE SOUTH, 1940-1980 Clarence Lang 233
Bruce Jackson. GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME: AFRICAN AMERICAN NARRATIVE POETRY FROM THE ORAL TRADITION Valerie F. Kinloch 236
Benjamin Looker, “POINT FROM WHICH CREATION BEGINS”: THE BLACK ARTISTS’ GROUP OF ST. LOUIS Debi Hamlin 238
Kimberly Springer, LIVING FOR THE REVOLUTION: BLACK FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS, 1968-1980 Duchess Harris 240
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Volume 91, No. 3 Summer 2006
CONTENTS
UPLIFTING OUR “DOWNTRODDEN SISTERHOOD”: VICTORIA EARLE MATTHEWS AND NEW YORK CITY’S WHITE ROSE MISSION, 1897-1907 Steve Kramer 243
EDUCATING THE “NATIVE”: A STUDY OF THE EDUCATION ADAPTATION STRATEGY IN BRITISH COLONIAL AFRICA, 1910-1936 Michael Omolewa 267
TOWARD A TRANSNATIONAL RESEARCH AGENDA FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Gerald Horne 288
BOOK FORUM
MY FACE IS BLACK IS TRUE
CALLIE HOUSE: THE PURSUIT OF REPARATIONS AS A MEANS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE James Turner 305
FROM THE MARGINS TO THE CENTER: CALLIE HOUSE AND THE EX-SLAVE PENSION MOVEMENT Darlene Clark Hine 311
THEIR FACES WERE BLACK, BUT THE ELITES WERE UNTRUE Daryl Michael Scott 318
IN SEARCH OF CALLIE HOUSE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN REPARATIONS MOVEMENT Mary Frances Berry 323
ESSAY REVIEW
ON THOMAS SOWELL AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND CULTURE Robert L. Harris 328
BOOK REVIEWS
Michael A. Gomez, REVERSING SAIL: A HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Larry Hudson 335
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, SLAVERY AND AFRICAN ETHNICITIES IN THE AMERICANS: RESTORING THE LINKS Barbara Josiah 337
Hiromi Furukawa and Tetsushi Furukawa, NIHONJIN TO AFURIKAKEI AMERIKAJIN (JAPANESE AND AFRICAN AMERICANS: HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THEIR RELATIONS) Suzuko Morikawa 339
Adam Rothman, SLAVE COUNTRY: AMERICAN EXPANSION AND THE ORIGINS OF THE DEEP SOUTH Hilary Moss 341
James B. Bennett, RELIGION AND THE RISE OF JIM CROW IN NEW ORLEANS Kelly J. Baker 344
Frank E. Roberts, THE AMERICAN FOREIGN LEGION: BLACK SOLDIERS OF THE 93RD IN WORLD WAR I Samuel B. Hoff 346
Katharine Capshaw Smith, CHILDREN’S LITERATURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Michelle H. Martin 348
Andrew M. Kaye, THE PUSSYCAT OF PRIZEFIGHTING: TIGER FLOWERS AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK CELEBRITY Daniel A. Nathan 351
Jeffrey B. Leak, RACIAL MYTHS AND MASCULINITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Priscilla R. Ramsey 352
Johanna Schoen, CHOICE AND COERCION: BIRTH CONTROL, STERILIZATION, AND ABORTION IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE Rhonda Y. Williams 354
Peter F. Lau, ed., FROM THE GRASSROOTS TO THE SUPREME COURT: BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Michael Fultz 356
Steven F. Lawson, CIVIL RIGHTS CROSSROADS: NATION, COMMUNITY, AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE Christopher B. Strain 358
Carroll Purcell, ed., A HAMMER IN THEIR HANDS: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Robert C. Hayden 360
Bill Clay, BILL CLAY: A POLITICAL VOICE AT THE GRASS ROOTS Sherrow O. Pinder 362
Faith Ringgold, WE FLEW OVER THE BRIDGE: THE MEMOIRS OF FAITH RINGGOLD Joyce Owens Anderson 364
ANNOUNCEMENTS 366
Volume 91, No. 4 Fall 2006
Special Issue
“P. STERLING STUCKEY: IN PRAISE OF AN INTELLECTUAL LEGACY”
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION Robert A. Hill 367
RING SHOUT FOR THE ANCESTORS Abena P. A. Busia 372
A HARVEST FOR THE PEOPLE: P. STERLING STUCKEY, ACTIVIST AND SCHOLAR Michael A. Gomez 374
ON ANCHORING A GENRATION OF SCHOALRS: P. STERLING STUCKEY AND THE NATIONALIST PERSUASION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Clement Alexander Price 385
THROUGH THE PRISM OF SLAVE ART: HISTORY, LITERATURE, MEMORY, AND THE WORK OF P. STERLING STRUCKEY Jason Young 389
A QUESTION OF ORIGINS: THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ROOTS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURES France Ntloedibe 401
SONGS OF REMEMBERANCE Josephine Wright 413
REFLECTIONS ON THE SCHOLARSHIP OF AFRICAN ORIGNIS AND INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN SLAVERY P. Sterling Stuckey 425
DOCUMENT
INTRODUCTION: GERMANY ON HIS MIND: “DAS NEUE VATERLAND” Kenneth Barkin 444
THE NEW FATHERLAND W.E.B. Du Bois 450
AFTERWORD: FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND W.E.B. DUBOIS ON THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ENSLAVED P. Sterling Stuckey 451
SPECIAL REPORT
THOMAS SOWELL’S QUIXOTIC QUEST TO DENIGRATE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: A CRITIQUE James B. Stewart 459
BOOK REVIEWS
Leslie Harris, IN THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN NEW YORK CITY, 1626-1863 Nikki Taylor 467
Vincent Carretta, EQUIANO, THE AFRICAN: BIOGRAPHY OF A SELF-MADE MAN Michael Benjamin 469
Sarah Meer, UNCLE TOM MANIA: SLAVERY, MINSTRELSY, AND TRANSATLANTIC CULTURE IN THE 1850 Martin Crawford 471
William A. Link, ROOTS OF SECESSION: SLAVERY AND POLITICS IN ANTEBELLUM VIRGINIA Keith A. Winsell 473
Julius H. Bailey, AROUND THE FAMILY ALTER: DOMESTICITY IN THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1865-1900 Jualynne E. Dodson 476
Gregory Mixon, THE ATLANTA RIOT: TACE, CLASS, AND VIOLENCE IN A NEW SOUTH CITY; David Fort Godshalk, VEILED VISIONS: THE 1906 ATLANTA RACE RIOT AND THE RESHAPING OF AMERICAN RACE RELATIONS Oscar R. Williams 478
Martha Biondi, TO STAND AND FIGHT: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN POSTWAR NEW YORK CITY Stacy Kinlock Sewell 480
Houston Bryan Roberson, FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT: THE STORY OF DEXTER AVENUE KING MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, 1865-1977 Walter Greason 482
Matthew C. Whitaker, RACE WORK: THE RISE OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE URBAN WEST Julian Kunnie 484
Danielle S. Allen, TALKING TO STRANGERS: ANXIETIES OF CITIZENSHIP SINCE BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION Lorenzo Morris 486
Jerma A. Jackson, SINGING IN MY SOUL: BLACK GOSPEL MUSIC IN A SECULAR AGE Lois Merriwhether Moore 489
Stuart L. Goosman, GROUP HARMONY: THE BLACK URBAN ROOTS OF RHYTHM & BLUES James B. Stewart 490
James N. Gregory, THE SOUTHERN DIASPORA: HOW THE GREAT MIGRATION OF BLACK AND WHITE SOUTHERNERS TRANSFORMED AMERICA Shawn Leigh Alexander 493
John Ogbu, BLACK AMERICAN STUDENTS IN AN AFFLUENT SUBURB: A STUDY OF ACADEMIC DISENGAGEMENT Beatrice L. Briglall 495
Noel Leo Erskine, FROM GARVEY TO MARLEY: RASTAFARI THEOLOGY Jason Parker 497
ANNOUNNCEMENTS 500
CARTER G. WOODSON LECTURERS, 2006-2007 500
INDEX 511
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