Recently added articles from The Journal of African American History:
Introduction--discourses on race, sex, and African American citizenship.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; Chateauvert, Melinda ... From the mid-19th century and even earlier, African Americans have demanded "first class citizenship," "the full works ... with no reservations ... and nothing less," as black labor leader A. Philip Randolph asserted in 1942. (1) But what exactly is "citizenship?" What rights are conferred ...
What's sex got to do with it? Race, power, citizenship, and "Intermediate identities" in the post-emancipation United States.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Holder, Ann S. ... In the past two decades, U.S. audiences have been recipients of numerous popular accounts that seem to show the role of sexuality in destabilizing or confounding expectations of racial difference. For every highly public case, from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings to revelations about ...
Entertaining citizenship: masculinity and minstrelsy in post-emancipation San Francisco.(San Francisco, California)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Hudson, Lynn M. ... Getting a glass of whiskey on the Barbary Coast had never been difficult. The gold rush meant, among other things, that libations would be plentiful in the towns and camps that sprung up throughout the new state of California. (1) But for African American men, stepping into a bar during ...
Framing sexual citizenship: reconsidering the discourse on African American families.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Chateauvert, Melinda ... Mr. Kirk: The first question [the Registrar] asked was did I have any illegitimate children. I said, "Not as I knows of If I has, I hasn't been accused of it. " The Registrar said, "You are a damned liar." Vice-Chairman Storey: Said what? Mr. Kirk: "You are a damned ...
"Reckless eyeballing": the Matt Ingram case and the denial of African American sexual freedom.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Berry, Mary Frances ... In Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1982), John Blassingame and I included a reference to the 1951 episode in which Matt Ingram, a black tenant farmer in Yanceyville, North Carolina, was charged with assault with intent to rape a white girl, although he was 75 feet away from ...
The body, sexuality, and self-defense in State vs. Joan Little, 1974-1975.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; McNeil, Genna Rae ... I ran because it was self-defense. ... [I]f the authorities there [in Beaufort County] had gotten to me before any other body, ... I never would have been here to tell what really happened. Joan Little (September 1974) (1) Sometimes one has to become differently ...
Homosexuality and the black church.(ESSAY REVIEW I)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Harris, Angelique C. ... Gary David Comstock, A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Lesbians and Gay Men into African American Congregations. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. Pp. 296. Cloth $24.95. Horace L. Griffin, Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black ...
Reflections on the history of Black Studies.(ESSAY REVIEW II)(Noliwe M. Rooks, White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Colon, Alan ... Noliwe M. Rooks, White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006. Pp. 213. Cloth $25.95. In the whole history of higher education in the United States, there is nothing to ...
Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Fuke, Richard P. ... James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, eds., Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. New York: The New Press, 2006, Pp. 272. Paper $25.95. Americans' memory of the history of slavery and their public presentation of the slave experience expose a ...
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Dixon, Chris ... Gerald Horne, The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. 341. Cloth $75.00. Paper $24.00. Although antebellum southern slavery was distinct from other modern manifestations of enslavement, even the ...
Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Moore, Lois Merriweather ... Anthony Tibbles, ed., Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity. Second Edition. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 2006. Pp. 240. Paper $39.45. Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity represents an important attempt to understand how a purportedly ...
The First African American Newspaper.(Freedom's Journal: The First African American Newspaper)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Kachun, Mitch ... Jacqueline Bacon, Freedom's Journal: The First African American Newspaper. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. Pp. x, 325. Cloth $80.00. Paper $29.95. Jacqueline Bacon's Freedom's Journal fills an important gap in the scholarship on the black press and on African American ...
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Barclay, Jenifer ... Erskine Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 601. Cloth $40.00. Paper $20.00. Erskine Clarke's Bancroft prizewinning work, Dwelling Place, recounts the history of plantation owner Charles Colcock Jones's family ...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Ham, Debra Newman ... Sylvaine A. Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 340. Cloth $30.00. Award-winning author Sylvaine Diouf has added another prize to her belt for this ...
African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Slaughter-Defoe, Diana ... Wilma King, African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 245. Cloth $79.95. Paper $34.95. This is an original and important work that directs attention to the historical study of African American ...
On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Dixon, Kwame ... Jack Hamann, On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2007. Pp. 358. Cloth $24.95. Paper $19.95. What is the proper role of investigative journalism in re-examining past historical injustices? Jack Hamann's On ...
Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Robertson, Clyde C. ... Samuel W. Black, ed., Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Regional History Center and the Smithsonian Institution, 2007. Pp. 218. Cloth $ 45.00. Paper $29.95 From 1964 to 1975 the United States was embroiled in the very unpopular war ...
Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Mixon, Gregory ... Winston A. Grady-Willis, Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 288. Cloth $79.95. Paper $22.95. In April 1996, longtime Atlanta grassroots and National Welfare Rights Organization ...
The Social Sciences and Theories of Race.
Mar 22, 2008; Fitch, Nancy-Elizabeth ... Vernon J. Williams, Jr., The Social Sciences and Theories of Race. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 151. Cloth $50.00. Paper $20.00. The Social Sciences and Theories of Race is a small, provocative, and thought-provoking collection of essays by Vernon ...
Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Grant, Leslie Campbell ... Keith Byerman, Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2005. Pp. 240. Cloth $49.95. Paper $19.95. Preferring to organize his critique around the triad of "memory," "desire," and "family," Keith Byerman hopes to ...