Volume 93, No. 1 Winter 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
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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 149
WHAT’S SEX GOT TO DO WITH IT? RACE, POWER, CITIZENSHIP, AND “INTERMEDIATE IDENTITIES” IN THE POST-EMANCIPATION UNITED STATES Ann S. Holder 153
ENTERTAINING CITIZENSHIP: MASCULINITY AND MINSTRELSY IN POST-EMANCIPATION SAN FRANCISCO Lynn M. Hudson 174
FRAMING SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP: RECONSIDERING THE DISCOURSE ON AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES Melinda Chateauvert 198
“RECKLESS EYEBALLING”: THE MATT INGRAM CASE AND THE DENIAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SEXUAL FREEDOM Mary Frances Berry 223
THE BODY, SEXUALITY, AND SELF-DEFENSE IN STATE vs. JOAN LITTLE, 1974-1975 Genna Rae McNeil 235
ESSAY REVIEWS HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BLACK CHURCH Angelique L. Harris 262 REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF BLACK STUDIES Alan Colón 271
BOOK REVIEWS James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, eds., SLAVERY AND PUBLIC HISTORY: THE TOUGH STUFF OF AMERICAN MEMORY Richard P. Fuke 280
Gerald Horne, THE DEEPEST SOUTH: THE UNITED STATES, BRAZIL, AND THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE Chris Dixon 283
Anthony Tibbles, ed., TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY: AGAINST HUMAN DIGNITY Lois Merriweather Moore 285
Jacqueline Bacon, FREEDOM’S JOURNAL: THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Mitch Kachun 287
Erskine Clarke, DWELLING PLACE: A PLANTATION EPIC Jenifer Barclay 289
Sylvaine A. Diouf, DREAMS OF AFRICA IN ALABAMA: THE SLAVE SHIP CLOTILDA AND THE LAST AFRICANS BROUGHT TO AMERICA Debra Newman Ham 291
Wilma King, AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRHOODS: HISTORICAL PERSECTIVES FROM SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS Diana Slaughter-Defoe 294
Jack Hamann, ON AMERICAN SOIL: HOW JUSTICE BECAME A CASUALTY OF WORLD WAR II Kwame Dixon 296
Samuel W. Black, ed., SOUL SOLDIERS: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE VIETNAM ERA Clyde C. Robertson 298
Winston A. Grady-Willis, CHALLENGING U.S. APARTHEID: ATLANTA AND BLACK STRUGGLES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 1960-1977 Gregory Mixon 301
Vernon J. Williams Jr., THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THEORIES OF RACE Nancy-Elizabeth Fitch 301
Keith Byerman, REMEMBERING THE PAST IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION Leslie Campbell Grant 305
Steven L. Isoardi, THE DARK TREE: JAZZ AND THE COMMUNITY ARTS IN LOS ANGELES Michael Lang 307
John T. Barber, THE BLACK DIGITAL ELITE: AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS IN THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION Yuya Kuichi 310
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas, eds., GLOBALIZATION AND RACE: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF BLACKNESS Yolanda T. Moses 312
ANNOUNCEMENTS Volume 93, No. 3 Summer 2008 Contents:
“BLACK GENTLEMAN AS GOOD AS WHITE”: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AUSTRIALIAN ABORIGINAL POLITICAL PROTESTS, 1830-1865 Gregory Smithers
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN OMAHA AND THE 1898 TRANS-MISSISSIPPI AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION David J. Peavler
STATES’ RIGHTS, FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS, AND SEGREGATED 4-H CAMPS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1927-1969 Carmen V. Harris
SYMPOSIUM
INTRODUCTION: HURRICANE KATRINA AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS – A SYMPOSIUM V.P. Franklin
HURRICANE KATRINA THROUGH THE EYES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS: THE MAKING OF A DOCUMENTARY Clyde C. Robertson
A KATRINA RECOVERY INITIATIVE: DILLARD UNIVERSITY STUDENT PROJECTS, JANUARY-JULY 2006 Gloria C. Love
PUBLIC SCHOOLING IN POST-HURRICANE KATRINA NEW ORLEANS: ARE CHARTER SCHOOLS THE SOLUTION OR PART OF THE PROBLEM? Pamela N. Frazier-Anderson
ESSAY REVIEW NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND MUSIC Josephine Wright
BOOK REVIEWS Susan Dwyer Amussen, CARIBBEAN EXCHANGES: SLAVERY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ENGLISH SOCIETY, 1640-1700 Charles H. Ford
Gary B. Nash, THE FORGOTTEN FIFTH: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION Ervin James, III
J. Gordon Melton, A WILL TO CHOOSE: THE ORIGINS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN METHODISM Francesca Gamber
Karolyn Smardz Frost, I’VE GOT A HOME IN GLORY: A LOST TALE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Sylvia M. Jacobs
W. J. Megginson, AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN SOUTH CAROLINA’S UPPER PIEDMONT, 1780-1900 Vernon Burton
Joseph O. Jewell, RACE, SOCIAL REFORM, AND THE MAKING OF A MIDDLE CLASS: THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION AND BLACK ATLANTA, 1870-1900 H. Paul Thompson
Vivian M. May, ANNA JULIA COOPER, VISIONARY BLACK FEMINIST: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION Karen A. Johnson
Davarian L. Baldwin, CHICAGO’S NEW NEGROES: MODERNITY, THE GREAT MIGRATION, AND BLACK URBAN LIFE Jacob S. Dorman
Judith Weisenfeld, HOLLYWOOD BE THY NAME: AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION IN AMERICAN FILM, 1929- 1949 Benjamin G. Wright
Andrew H. Myers, BLACK, WHITE, & OLIVE DRAB: RACIAL INTEGRATION AT FORT JACKSON SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Korey Bowers Brown
Elizabeth Jacoway, TURN AWAY THY SON: LITTLE ROCK, THE CRISIS THAT SHOCKED THE NATION Martha Hardney
Andrew Witt, THE BLACK PANTHERS IN THE MIDWEST: THE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS AND SERVICES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IN MILWAUKEE, 1966-1977 Jakobi Williams
Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani, eds., AFRICAN IMMIGRANT RELIGIONS IN AMERICA Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Karyn R. Lacy, BLUE–CHIP BLACK: RACE, CLASS, AND STATUS IN THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS Quincy T. Mills
Adelaide M. Cromwell, UNVEILED VOICES, UNVARNISHED MEMORIES: THE CROMWELL FAMILY IN SLAVERY AND SEGREGATION, 1692-1972 Emma Lapsansky-Werner
ANNOUNCEMENTS
IN MEMORIUM – Walter B. Hill, Jr.
Volume 93, No. 4 Fall 2008
Special Issue
“Ending the Transatlantic Slave Trade:
Bicentennial Research, Reflections, and Commemorations”
Contents:
INTRODUCTION: ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: BICENTENNIAL RESEARCH, REFLECTIONS, AND COMMEMORATIONS V.P. Franklin 471
“I NEVER HAVE SUCH A SICKLY SHIP BEFORE”: DIET, DISEASE, AND MORTALITY IN 18TH-CENTURY ATLANTIC SLAVING VOYAGES Sowande’ Mustakeem 474
RESISTANCE AND COLLABORATION: POLITICAL STRATEGIES WITHIN THE AFRO-CAROLINIAN SLAVE COMMUNITY, 1700-1750 Perry L. Kyles 497
THE SLAVING BRIG HENRIQUETA AND HER EVIL SISTERS: A CASE STUDY IN THE 19th-CENTURY ILLEGAL SLAVE TRADE TO BRAZIL Dinizulu Gene Tinnie 509
SPECIAL REPORTS
REFLECTIONS ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE ABOLITION OF THE BRITISH SLAVE TRADE J. R. Kerr-Ritchie 532
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMEMORATION: FROM THE SLAVE TRADE ABOLITION BICENTENNIAL TO CARNIVAL MESSIAH V.P. Franklin 543
ESSAY REVIEWS SLAVERY, THE SLAVE SHIP, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD Ronald W. Bailey 547
DOCUMENTING AND CELEBRATING THE LEGACIES OF AFRICAN PEOPLES Walter B. Hill, Jr. 564
BOOK REVIEWS Stephanie E. Smallwood, SALTWATER SLAVERY: A MIDDLE PASSAGE FROM AFRICA TO AMERICAN DIASPORA Sylvia M. Jacobs 568
Roger D. Abraham, et al., BLUES FOR NEW ORLEANS: MARDI GRAS AND AMERICA’S CREOLE SOUL Rhonda J. Miller 570
Sharon Block, RAPE AND SEXUAL POWER IN EARLY AMERICA Emily M. Hall 573
Daina Ramey Berry, “SWING THE SICKLE FOR THE HARVEST IS RIPE”: GENDER AND SLAVERY IN ANTEBELLUM GEORGIA Katrina Thompson 575
Joseph Gerteis, CLASS AND THE COLOR LINE: INTERRACIAL CLASS COALITION IN THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR AND THE POPULIST MOVEMENT Andrew W. Kahrl 578
John M. Giggie, AFTER REDEMPTION: JIM CROW AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AFRICAN RELIGION IN THE DELTA, 1875-1915 Daniel A. Dalrymple 589
Anne Elizabeth Carroll, WORD, IMAGE, AND THE NEW NEGRO: REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Edward L. Robinson 582
Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway, eds., BLACK WOMEN’S INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS: SPEAKING THEIR MINDS Jacqueline A. McLeod 584
Susannah Walker, STYLE AND STATUS: SELLING BEAUTY TO AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, 1920-1975 Noliwe Rooks 588
Wesley C. Hogan, MANY MINDS, ONE HEART: SNCC’S DREAM FOR A NEW AMERICA Nishani Frazier 590
Nelson Peery, BLACK RADICAL: THE EDUCATION OF AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY Christopher M. Tinson 592
Milton S. Katz, BREAKING THROUGH: JOHN B. MCLENDON, BASKETBALL LEGEND AND CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER John Matthew Smith 594
James Wolfinger, PHILADELPHIA DIVIDED: RACE AND POLITICS IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Brian Purnell 596
Kathryn M. Neckerman, SCHOOLS BETRAYED: ROOTS OF FAILURE IN INNER-CITY EDUCATION Kathy Ann Jordan 599
Reiland Rabaka, W. E. B. DU BOIS AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Benjamin Sevitch 601
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CARTER G. WOODSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIPS, 2008-2009 604
INDEX TO VOLUME 93 615
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