Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2005)
ISSN 1094-902X

 

 

News and Announcements:

Call for Papers: "ASALH 90th Annual Convention Buffalo, New York USA October 5-9, 2005
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH), is now accepting electronic proposals for presentations at our annual meeting in 2005, hosted by the Buffalo, New York, branches. We will feature the latest scholarship on African American and Africana history, culture, politics, and society and welcome analyses of the scholarly trends of the last century. The theme for 2005 is "The Niagara Movement: Black Protest Reborn 1905-2005" (marking the 100th anniversary of this event). We especially encourage submission of papers and panels that focus on international collaborations and struggles regardless of the time period. However, papers on other topics of relevance to African American history and the history of other populations in the African Diaspora are also welcome. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2005.

Call for Papers: Radical History Review solicits article proposals from scholars across the disciplines, in fields including history, anthropology, religious studies, sociology, philosophy, political science, gender, and cultural studies. We encourage potential contributors to explore the following issues, among other possibilities:

We also encourage submissions from scholars who teach religious history, for our special section, Teaching Radical History. In TRH pieces, scholars discuss their methodological, theoretical, and pedagogical frameworks, along with course syllabi and reflections on the class experience.

Procedures for submission of proposals and articles:
By March 15, 2006, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing your article to rhr@igc.org. By April 1, 2006 authors will be notified whether they should submit their article in full. The due date for solicited, complete articles is May 1, 2006. All articles will then be put through the peer review process. Articles selected for publication after the peer review process will appear in volume 99 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall 2007.

Call for Papers: Western Folklore, the academic journal of the California Folklore Society, is soliciting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be centered on the expressive culture of the African Diaspora and Caribbean Religious Culture. Work that deals with the nature of spirit possession, aesthetic expressions of self and society, and the negotiation of gender and sexuality is especially welcome. Submission deadline is August 1, 2005. Please send submissions as attachments in Microsoft Word to Solimar Otero, Special Issue Editor <solimar@u.washington.edu>, or Sabina Magliocco, Editor <sabina.magliocco@csun.edu>, or in hard copy to: Sabina Magliocco, Editor, Western Folklore; Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge; 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 910330-8244.

 

tri-red.gif (202 bytes)Recent and Forthcoming Books

Clayborne Carson, , et al., eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., vol. 5: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959–December 1960 (University of California Press, 2005)

Mary Ann Clark, Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Ritual Practices and their Gender Implications (University Press of Florida, 2005).

Reginald F. Davis, Frederick Douglass: A Precursor of Liberation Theology (Mercer University Press, 2005)

Noel Leo Erskine, From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology (University Press of Florida, 2005)

Goodbye, Babylon (Dust-to-Digital, 2003)

Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, eds., Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Folklore Study (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005)

Milmon F. Harrison, Righteous Riches: The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Paul Harvey, Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

Justin M. Johnson, James Robinson Johnston: The Life, Death and Legacy of Nova Scotia's First Black Lawyer (Nimbus Publishing, 2005)

Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost, eds., Teaching African American Religions (Oxford University Press, 2005)

David J. Libby, Paul Spikard, and Susan Ditto, eds., Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in honor of Winthrop D. Jordan (University Press of Mississippi, 2005)

Darnise C. Martin, Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church (New York University Press, 2005)

Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press, 2005)

Felicia M. Miyakawa, Five Percenter Rap: God's Hop Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission (Indiana University Press, 2005)

Yolanda Pierce, Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative (University Press of Florida, 2005)

Jon F. Sensbach, Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2005)

Dianne M. Stewart, Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Sonsyrea Tate, Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam, with a New Introduction (University of Tennessee Press, 2005)

Shane White and Graham White, The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speeches (Beacon Press , 2005)

 

Dissertations

Charity A. Freeman, “Earnestly Contending for the Faith: The Collective Traditions of Literacy, Spirituality, and Struggle, as Articulated in the Spiritual Autobiographies and Sermons of Selected African-American Holiness/Pentecostal Women, 1830–2000” (University of South Florida, 2003).

Timothy B. Neary, “Crossing Parochial Boundaries: African Americans and Interracial Catholic Social Action in Chicago, 1914–1954” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2004).

Kelly Willis Mendiola, “The Hand of a Woman: Four Holiness-Pentecostal Evangelists and American Culture, 1840–1930” (University of Texas, Austin, 2002).

Vernon Joseph Meyer, “This Far by Faith: The History of Black Catholics in Phoenix, Arizona, 1868–2003” (University of Dayton, 2004).

Devissi Muhammad, “Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Our Likeness: Muhammad Ali and the Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights Era” (Bowling Green State University, 2004).

Shelly Ann O'Foran, Baptized by fire: Collected memories of Little Zion Baptist Church (Alabama) (University of Maryland, 2004).

Channette M. Romero, “Spiritual Resistance: Religion, Race, and Nation in Ethnic American Women’s Fiction” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2004).

Randall James Stephens, “‘The Fire Spreads’: The Origins of the Southern Holiness and Pentecostal Movements” (University of Florida, 2003).

Jennifer Lynn Strychasz, "Jesus is Black.": Race and Christianity in African American Church Art, 1968-1986 (University of Maryland, 2003).

Articles

Erica R, Armstrong, “A Mental and Moral Feast: Reading, Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia,” Journal of Women’s History 16: 1 (2004), 78–102.

Rufus Burrow, Jr., “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Doctrine of Human Dignity,” Western Journal of Black Studies 26 (Winter 2002), 228–39.

Bayliss J. Camp and Orit Kent, “‘What a Mighty Power We Can Be’: Individual and Collective Identity in African American and White Fraternal Initiation Rituals,” Social Science History 28 (Fall 2004), 439–83.

A. Glenn Crothers, , “Quaker Merchants and Slavery in Early National Alexandria, Virginia: The Ordeal of William Hartshorne,” Journal of the Early Republic 25 (Spring 2005), 47–77.

Vivian Deno , “God, Authority, and the Home: Gender, Race, and U.S. Pentecostals, 1900–1926,” Journal of Women’s History 16 (Fall 2004), 83–105.

James M. Davidson, “Rituals Captured in Context and Time: Charm Use in North Dallas Freedman’s Town (1869–1907), Dallas, Texas,” Historical Archaeology 38: 2, 2004), 22–54.

Ida E. Jones, “Contacts without Fellowship: Lynching, the Bible, and the Christian Community,” Black History Bulletin 65 (July-Dec 2002), 48–55.

Ryan Jordan, “Quakers, ‘Comeouters,’ and the Meaning of Abolitionism in the Antebellum Free States,” Journal of the Early Republic 24 (Winter 2004), 587–608.

Daniel Magaziner, “Liberating the Black Messiah: American Black Theology, Race, and Faith in Apartheid South Africa,” Maryland Historian 29 (Winter 2005), 23–49.

Elton H. Weaver, III, “The Metamorphosis of Bishop C. H. Mason: Origins of Black Pentecostals in Tennessee,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 63 (Summer 2004), 86–101.

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