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Cheiron 2023 Book Prize.

The winner of the Cheiron 2023 Book Prize is Christina Ramos for the book Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2022. Dr. Ramos is an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

New Perspectives on Science, Medicine, and Language in Modern South Asia

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew AmstutzAndrew Amstutz is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He received his PhD from Cornell University, and he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2021. He has published articles in South Asia and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Review: Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, by Natalie Lira

Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, by Natalie Lira Natalie Lira. Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 284 pp. Paperback $29.95. Leslie Digdon Leslie Digdon LESLIE DIGDON is an assistant professor of history and engineering at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the project lead of the Canadian Anti-eugenics Scholarship Hub (CRASH), and her research focuses on the intersections of eugenics, public health, and institutionalization in the early twentieth century. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (2): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.107 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Leslie Digdon; Review: Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, by Natalie Lira. California History 1 May 2023; 100 (2): 107–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.107 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In Laboratory of Deficiency, Natalie Lira explores the ways in which “racism, ableism, and classism” (23) were mobilized to construct both the problem of feeblemindedness and its supposed solution in Southern California in the first half of the twentieth century. Lira uses Pacific Colony, a public psychiatric hospital established in 1917, as a case study and has divided her text into thematic chapters that examine the institution’s creation and operation, as well as what it represented to the government, stakeholders, and those whom it targeted and incarcerated. Employing the lenses and frameworks of reproductive justice and critical disability studies, Lira makes important contributions to the historiographies of eugenics, institutionalization, race, and reproductive justice at both the regional and transnational levels. In so doing, she demonstrates the ways in which “diagnoses of feeblemindedness and practices of institutionalization used the language of medicine and science to naturalize existing social hierarchies and... You do not currently have access to this content.

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell

Reviewed by: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell Stephanie K. Lawton (bio) Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era. By Sarah J. Purcell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 321. $95.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $26.99 ebook) Historians of Civil War memory have eagerly anticipated Purcell's project, and it does not disappoint. Americans in the nineteenth century took death seriously and produced an astonishing amount of material about public funerals. Purcell is up to this challenge and incorporates a remarkable number of primary sources, including over three hundred newspapers, surveying the funeral rites and memorial politics for nine prominent Americans, ranging from well-known individuals like Henry Clay, Robert E. Lee, and Frederick Douglass, to nearly forgotten people like Elmer Ellsworth, George Peabody, and Winnie Davis. Purcell states that although public funerals have long been cast as rites of "unity and consensus," they are in fact contested sites of memory creation as participants "advocate for alternative visions of the past" and project "conflicting ideas about the nation onto famous figures whom they mourned" (pp. 5–6). Through such debates about the past, "Public funerals … helped define American national identities" as post-bellum Americans worked to "'reconstitute' the … nation in ways compatible with rival political interests" (pp. 3–4). But rather than a singular memorial tradition, Purcell shows that multiple, often conflicting, strands were combined in the same commemorative events. [End Page 84] Each chapter contains real gems. Purcell's discussion of how Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" oration was a rebuttal of the eulogies for Henry Clay in July 1852 is eyeopening. The diplomatic wrangling between the British and American governments over who would transport George Peabody's remains back to the U.S. in the wake of the CSS Alabama dispute shows that the political significance of memory is often international in scope. Purcell's attention to the racial lines of division in these ceremonies is superb, but there could be more attention to the less obvious ways gender and class were used to exclude or marginalize lower-class men, immigrants, and women. For example, while white women joined crowds welcoming Henry Clay's body to their cities and female family members sometimes appeared in the processions, women did not march, deliver the eulogies, or sit on the civic committees that planned these events. Only in the South after the Civil War did ladies' memorial associations start to take a role in hosting mourning rites, but they still did not participate in all aspects of public mourning equally with men. Even lower-class white men, such as firemen in New York City, usually walked near the end of funeral processions, not in the chief places of honor, which highlights the fractures of class and whiteness that became more prominent as America entered its Gilded Age. Spectacle of Grief opens promising avenues for future exploration, especially the possibility of further integrating disability studies into Civil War memory. Throughout the book, undertakers tried to prevent corpses from decaying while on public view while eulogists praised their past physical attributes and ignored often lengthy and disabling illnesses. These attempts to hide mortality, even after death, invites collaboration with disability scholars who have argued that illness and disability have never been welcome in the American community. Scholars of Civil War memory or of death and funeral traditions will find this a valuable addition to their bibliographies. History [End Page 85] instructors who teach about any of the book's nine central subjects would benefit from this additional context, and the chapters on Henry Clay and Frederick Douglass/Winnie Davis would work well as a set to assign to upper-division history classes talking about U.S. slavery, race, gender, and politics. Stephanie K. Lawton STEPHANIE K. LAWTON is an assistant professor of history at the University of the Cumberlands. Her research focuses on Greco-Roman influences on presidential funerals in the nineteenth-century United States. Copyright © 2022 Kentucky Historical Society

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Marek Bernacki is an associate professor in the Department of Polish Philology at the University of Bielsko-Biała. He is the author of Tropienie Miłosza: Hermeneutyczna “bio-grafia” Poety [Quest for Miłosz: A hermeneutical “bio-graphy” of the poet, 2019] and editor of Peryferie Miłosza: Nieznane konteksty, glosy, nowe rozpoznania [Miłosz's peripheries: Unknown contexts, glosses, new explorations, 2020].Tadeusz Bujnicki is a professor emeritus of Polish literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an associate in the Artes Liberales Department at Warsaw University. His research interests focus on the works of Henryk Sienkiewicz and other Polish authors of the Positivist era as well as literature and history of the northeastern borderlands of Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of sixteen books and over 300 articles.Jacek Czarnecki is an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College, where he teaches a wide range of courses in European, American, and Middle Eastern histories. He also serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. He received his Ph.D. in modern world history from St. John's University in 2014.Piotr Hapanowicz is a historian and a certified curator at the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków. His research focuses on the history of Kraków, Polish parliamentarism, and biography. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications, including Senatorowie województwa krakowskiego w latach 1922–1939 (2007).James S. Pula is a professor emeritus of history at Purdue University. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, was the editor of the scholarly journal Polish American Studies for some thirty-three years, and served as editor-in-chief of the award-winning The Polish American Encyclopedia.Marta Skwara is a professor of Polish and comparative literature at the University of Szczecin and, since 2005, the head of its program in comparative literary studies. In addition, she serves as editor-in-chief of Rocznik Komparatystyczny/Komparatistisches Jahrbuch. Her research interests include comparative literature, particularly reception and translation studies, and intertextuality.

Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit. By Benjamin J. Wetzel

In this spiritual biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin J. Wetzel, an assistant professor of history at Taylor University, has done a superb job of examining the 26th president’s religious beliefs and practices. Roosevelt’s religiosity has long been a subject of contention. A politician who sounded like a preacher, T. R. peppered his talks and writings with quotations from the Bible (which he knew extraordinarily well), and he treated the many causes with which he was involved as moral crusades. “Religion was the heart of his life,” averred the Rev. Christian Reisner, an early Roosevelt biographer, but others were not so sure (p. 194). One skeptic, the literary critic Gamaliel Bradford, contended that Roosevelt was not religious because he did not revere God. “He had no need of him and no longing,” wrote Bradford, “because he really had no need of anything but his own immensely sufficient self” (p. 196). Was Roosevelt a true Christian or a Pharisee? That is an interesting question, but Wetzel wisely refrains from providing a concrete answer. “This volume cannot, of course, reach definitive conclusions,” he writes, “about matters that lay buried in Roosevelt’s soul” (p. 197). Rather than focusing on the unknowable, Wetzel focuses on what we can know about Roosevelt’s spirituality.

Notes on Contributors

Other| October 01 2022 Notes on Contributors Journal of American Ethnic History (2022) 42 (1): 113–114. https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.42.1.09 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Notes on Contributors. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 October 2022; 42 (1): 113–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.42.1.09 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search Reem Bou-Nacklie is currently an accelerated master's student, majoring in nutrition and food science, at the University of Vermont. She received cum laude honors in her undergraduate career and was awarded the Commission on Dietetic Registration Second Century Scholarship in 2020 and the Bertha Terrill Award in 2019.Josue Q. Estrada is Assistant Professor of History at Central Washington University. He is currently writing a book manuscript the explores how Puerto Ricans and later Chicanos mobilized through distinct organizational and political tactics to claim citizenship rights, specifically by invoking race strategically to reshape race and politics in the United States.Vincent Haddad is Associate Professor of English at Central State University. His scholarship on literature and comics has appeared or is forthcoming in the academic journals Inks, The Comparatist, ImageTexT, and College Literature, as well as several edited collections.Ashley Howard is Assistant Professor of African... You do not currently have access to this content.

A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones

Reviewed by: A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones John S. Sledge A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas. By Kelly Houston Jones. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2021. 284 pp. $59.95. ISBN 9–780–8203–6020–1. In his monumental Bancroft Prize-winning book Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York, NY, 1972), Eugene D. Genovese provided just two references after his index entry for Arkansas. Every other Confederate state got more, as did Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. While but one example of Arkansas’s coverage in the truly vast literature on American slavery, Genovese’s neglect was typical. At the time that he was researching and writing, southern historians paid scant attention to slavery in the trans-Mississippi. There was only one book that addressed the Toothpick State’s situation in depth, Orville W. Taylor’s Negro Slavery in Arkansas (Durham, NC, 1958). Modern scholars rate Taylor’s study higher than James Sellers’s woefully biased Slavery in Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL, 1950), but it antedated a deluge of research and writing that have significantly altered and expanded our understanding of antebellum slavery, on both sides of the Big Muddy. Comes now Kelly Houston Jones, whose new work, A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas, advances beyond Taylor and provides a keener understanding. Jones, an assistant professor of history at Arkansas Tech University, has produced a “bottom-up study” (4) that pays especial attention to place and environment in the lives of Arkansas’s enslaved people. Her sources include census reports, court records, tax rolls, territorial records, family papers, diaries, pension files, Works Progress Administration slave narratives (used with appropriate caution), and books. Newspapers, however, are notably absent. This volume presents dissertation research, and, as is common with such efforts, employs an academic vocabulary. That, combined with the hefty cover price, will limit its popular appeal. But the research is important, and anyone with an interest in the subject should attend. As Jones demonstrates, antebellum Arkansas was not like the older southern states. Admitted to the Union in 1836, it remained thinly [End Page 336] populated twenty-four years later, with the capitol, Little Rock, home to less than 4,000 residents. This was tiny compared to most other southern capitols, not to mention the big seaports like New Orleans (168,000 inhabitants), Charleston (70,000), and Mobile (30,000). Most of Arkansas’s people lived along the agriculturally rich river bottoms, with only a smattering toward the West and Indian Territory. As for the landscape itself, not for nothing was it referred to as “the morass.” Brooding swamps and forests needed clearing for fields and homes, and the rugged uplands were unappealing to Texas-bound immigrants. Nonetheless, Jones contends, Arkansas held great appeal to the white plantocracy “as a haven for slavery” (16) from the beginning. Absentee owners were not uncommon, including James Sutherland Deas of Mobile, who held land near New Madrid, Missouri. While men like Deas enjoyed their profits, enslaved people labored under the overseer’s lash against sucking bogs, scrub thickets, and old growth trees. New owners hastened to put their chattel to the plow. According to one slave, he made the long journey from Alabama chained to his fellows in a coffle, and as soon as they arrived, “was put right to work clearin’ land and buildin’ cabins...they just slashed the cane and deadened the timber and when cotton plantin’ time come the cane was layin’ there on the ground crisp and dry and they set fire to it and burned it off clean and then planted the crops” (39). A remarkable photograph included in the book’s black-and-white picture gallery illustrates the ordered landscape made possible by such forced labor. Taken in 1865, it shows the Tappan plantation near Helena from an elevated perspective some distance away. A two-story columned mansion dominates the view, surrounded by a large yard and white picket fence. Trending up a hillside but within a stone’s throw are two broadly separated rows of neat slave cabins featuring wide shed-roof porches. A variety of outbuildings completes the spread...

Contributors

Nellie Chu is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke Kunshan University. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Primarily trained in the anthropology of postsocialist China and the ethnography of global supply chains, her work addresses the intersecting topics of transnational capitalism, fast fashion, migration (transnational and domestic), counterfeit culture, gendered labor, industrialization, and urbanization. She has published single-authored articles in international journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Culture, Theory, Critique, and the Journal of Modern Craft, and the Made in China Journal. She is working toward the completion of her book manuscript, which narrates the everyday lives of West African, South Korean, and Chinese migrant entrepreneurs who collectively labor across the transnational supply chains for fast fashion in Guangzhou, China.Jane Hayward is currently lecturer in China and global affairs at the Lau China Institute, King's College London. She has a PhD from the East Asian Studies Department of New York University. She has held postdoctoral positions at the Oxford University China Centre and the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she worked at the Institute for Contemporary China Studies. Her research examines China's agrarian question, urban transformations, and Chinese think tanks, from the perspective of the internationalization of the state. She is currently working on her book manuscript, which examines China's agrarian question and the internationalization of the state.Małgorzata (Gosia) Jakimów is an assistant professor of East Asian politics at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the question of citizenship and civil society in China, critical citizenship theory, transnational civil society, political economy of labor in China, and the normative element of EU-China relations, with special interest in the role of Belt and Road Initiative in Central-Eastern Europe. She authored several book chapters and articles published in journals such as Citizenship Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and Asia Europe Journal. She is the author of China's Citizenship Challenge: Labour NGOs and the Struggle for Migrant Workers’ Rights (2021).Tong Lam is associate professor of history at the University of Toronto and a visual artist. He is the author of A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949 (2011) and Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World (2013), and the coeditor (with Jahnavi Phalkey) of the inaugural special issue of BJHS Themes, “Sciences of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century” (2016). His current research focuses on information, infrastructure, and special zones in socialist and postsocialist China. His ongoing research-based visual projects examine contemporary China's breakneck transformation, as well as the material evidence of Cold War mobilizations globally and their environmental and social consequences. He has exhibited his photographic and video works internationally.Minhua Ling is associate professor at the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a sociocultural anthropologist, she researches, writes, and teaches on the political economy and sociocultural ramifications of urbanization and migration, with a regional focus on China. She has published single-authored articles in international journals such as the China Quarterly, the China Journal, Anthropological Quarterly, Urban Studies, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Her monograph, The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge (2020), offers the first longitudinal study of China's second-generation rural-to-urban migrants. She is now working on a second book project examining socioecological transformation in migrant-sending villages after decades of massive labor migration and state-led urbanizing policies.Ralph Litzinger is professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging (2000) and coeditor, with Carlos Rojas, of Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China (2016). He has published in leading cultural anthropology and Asian studies journals, and he directed Duke's Asia/Pacific Studies Institute from 2001–7 and the Duke Engage Migrant Education Project from 2008–15. His new research concerns questions of planetary futures, digital labor and platform capitalism, human and posthuman techno-imaginaries. His most recent publication, with Fan Yang, is “Eco-Media Events in China: From Yellow Eco-Peril to Media Materialism,” Environmental Humanities, May 2020.Tzu-Chi Ou is a cultural anthropologist teaching at the International College of Innovation, National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She is interested in the transformation of migration and the rural-urban divide, asking how the lived experience of place and space remakes the identity and existence of migrant workers in contemporary China. Her dissertation, “Resigned Urbanization,” explores how a dialectical relationship between freedom and resignation mirrors the tension between strong economic growth and tightening political control in China. In 2018, she received the SUNTA Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association.Megan Steffen is a sociocultural anthropologist and user experience researcher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her intellectual interests include housing, unpredictability, the history of anthropology, sexual violence, and the anthropology of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Before working in industry, she conducted over twenty-four months of ethnographic research in the PRC for her PhD at Princeton University. She also held a postdoctoral position at the Society of Fellows, split between Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has published in American Anthropologist, Economic Anthropology, and Transnational Asia. A volume of essays she edited, Crowds: Ethnographic Encounters, was published in 2019. More recently, she has conducted research for projects related to machine learning, accessibility, online advertising, and the creator economy.Mengqi Wang is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke Kunshan University, which she joined in 2018 after receiving a PhD in anthropology from Brandeis University. Broadly trained in the fields of economic anthropology, science and technology studies, and China studies, she conducted ethnographic research on the low-end real estate market in eastern Nanjing. Her publications have appeared in flagship journals such as Urban Studies and the Journal of Cultural Economy, and have explored China's real estate–driven urbanization through instances of changing values of homeownership and the creation of future real estate markets. She is now working on a book manuscript tracing the emergence and deployment of the folk concept of “rigid demand,” meaning people's absolute need of homes in the form of homeownership, in the making of the low-end housing market at the urban edge of eastern Nanjing.Yang Zhan is assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and a member of the China Research and Development Network at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a cultural anthropologist by training. Her research interests include urbanization, migration, and mobility. Through the lens of urbanization and migration, her work explores a wide range of issues, including governance, labor, social reproduction, housing, and morality. Her articles have appeared in Urban Studies, Cities, Dialectical Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Anthropological Forum, and China Information, among others. Zhan is the winner of the 2020 Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for best article and is shortlisted for the 2021 Holland Prize. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Brutal Temporality: Venturing and the Politics of Future on Beijing's Urban Fringes. This ethnography brings time and temporality to the fore to understand social marginalization and the politics of hope in urban China. She has also started a new project on the way that emergent small-city urbanization is transforming both urbanization and migration dynamics and experiences in China.Qian Zhu is assistant professor of history at Duke Kunshan University. She holds a PhD in history from New York University. As an intellectual historian of twentieth-century China, Zhu's research intersects with sociocultural history of urbanization and capitalism and transnational history of anticolonialism and antifascism in the aftermath of the First World War. Her research projects examine issues including labor; humanity and collectivism; mass politics and culture; feminism; the state and nationalism; and sociocultural transformations of everyday life. She has published single-authored articles in international journals such as the International Journal of Asian Studies, China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies (CAHS), the International Journal of Gender and Women's Studies, the China Journal, and the China Quarterly. Her monograph manuscript, The Life of the Masses: Anti-fascism, Da Zhong Politics, and Culture in China, 1922–1936, is currently under review.

A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender & Sexuality in World History: Ten Design Principles

Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby's Primer features a refreshingly straightforward subtitle—Ten Design Principles—which forecasts the direct and instructional qualities of the book. This is indeed a primer that is broken into three sections designed to assist instructors in building and teaching courses that cross the disciplinary divide from history into women's and gender studies.The first section, “Starting from Scratch,” is designed to fill historians and other humanists in on key women's and gender studies concepts. The second section, “Modifying Existing Courses,” explains how to add a unit or two on gender-related issues to a history syllabus. The third section, “Common Challenges and Opportunities” engages with three specific areas: ethics, assessment, and civic engagement. All three sections contain practical pedagogical advice for instructors working on course design—the book is not, in other words, a theoretical intervention or an argument for women's and gender studies being added into existing curricula. Rather, it is a guide for instructors who have already decided to include or have been directed to include women's and gender studies materials but might not be trained to do so. The Primer is the latest volume in Duke UP's series entitled Design Principles for Teaching History and its central contribution is how it opens a complex women's and gender studies field for historians by providing them with practical advice and a carefully annotated list of sources and possible texts to assign.Wiesner-Hanks is a distinguished professor of history and women's and gender studies while Willoughby is an assistant professor of history. Their book's introduction presents their cross-disciplinary collaboration as essential to its project: both late and early-career academics will benefit from this book. Though the book presents itself as a guide equally for historians teaching women's and gender topics and scholars of women's and gender studies teaching history, the former are much more directly prioritized. There are some basic historical concepts introduced, drawn from the American Historical Association's (AHA) “history discipline core”—“historical empathy,” for instance (pp. 4–5, 16, 91–3). In addition, chapter 3 explores theories of periodization. However, most of the basic concepts introduced by the book come from women's and gender studies. It is, therefore, practically useful to a humanist or social scientist coming from outside of women's and gender studies for its introduction of these key concepts. Such scholars are clearly Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby's intended audience.The Primer's most valuable contribution is that extensive portions (especially in chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7) function as annotated bibliographies or literature reviews of major titles in women's and gender studies. The Primer is thus a goldmine rich with suggestions for secondary readings to assign to students plus theoretical texts to focus on oneself if one is not up to date with the foundations and new developments in the gender studies field. Also valuable are chapter 8’s “course goals.” These are discussed in detail and could be directly used or modified by any course in the humanities or social sciences that seeks to include women's and gender studies content. The Primer's focus appears to be mainly undergraduate education, though there is no reason why some of its valuable lessons might not be applied to crafting graduate syllabi. Its tone is not proscriptive: for example, chapter 4 recommends a list of secondary readings for undergraduates but acknowledges that instructors might want to prioritize primary texts. Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby emphasize the importance of secondary readings in Woman's and Gender Studies, but not to the extent of “detracting from their [students'] study of historical developments, change and continuity over time, and global patterns and processes” (p. 42). The Primer is a responsibly interdisciplinary intervention that seeks to enrich the teaching of history without aggressively altering it.Some of the other materials in the book are so basic that they raise the question of why the authors chose to include them. Chapter 9, “Developing Assessments that Fit Your Course Goals: Tests, Papers, and Assignments,” presents a general take on the widely-known pedagogical principle known as alignment. This chapter recommends that instructors build assignments first and then implement “backward design” by then selecting course materials that support those assignments—one might hear this advice in a graduate practicum on teaching or in one of so many professional development workshops. Likewise, the book's efforts to explain foundational theory sometimes read like they are intended not for instructors but for undergraduate students: “language is so powerful, argued some theorists, that it determines, rather than simply describes, our understanding of the world,” or an explanation of “‘nature vs. nurture.’ Are men ‘naturally’ better at math or more violent, or is this simply social conditioning?” (pp. 11, 92). Such content calls the book's intended audience into question given that virtually anyone experienced with collegiate education in the humanities or social sciences will already have come across multiple versions of these ideas.The Primer is not as overtly political as other works in women's and gender studies. Chapter 7, however, argues for a “feminist pedagogy” reliant on “intensive class discussion and face-to-face interaction,” and Chapter 6 puts forward the imperative to “globalize” existing history classes (pp. 77, 67–76). This latter point refers to a trend that is relatively current in history graduate programs: to reconsider the single-nation and regional models and to broaden the focus of courses to consider how developments elsewhere in the world impacted the nation or region that the course centers on. The authors articulate the move to include women's and gender studies topics in history classes as part of this broader shift away from what they present as too-narrowly focused history curricula. The Primer is valuable as a starting point for historians seeking to include Women's and Gender Studies material in their courses.

Contributing Authors

Say Burgin is assistant professor of history at Dickinson College. Her publications have appeared in the Women's History Review, Journal of American Studies, Journal of International Women's Studies, The Nation, and elsewhere. Her first book project examines the myth that Black Power was “antiwhite” and the white fight for Black Power in Detroit. Say was a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. She also co-created the educational website Rosa Parks's Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks (https://rosaparksbiography.org/). Follow her on Twitter @sayburgin.Robert T. Chase is associate professor of history at Stony Brook University. His research and teaching interests include the history of mass incarceration and the construction of what historians call “the carceral state.” He is also the co-director of the national organization Historians Against Slavery (HAS). He is an expert in social justice, Latino/a, and civil rights movements, and political and African American history. He is the editor of the book Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance (2019). His book We are Not Slaves won the Best Book Award from the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology; the Hank Lacayo Best Labor-Themed Award from the International Latino Book Award; and honorable mention for the Betty and Alfred Lee McClung Award from the Association for Humanist Sociology.Simon Hall is professor of modern history at the University of Leeds, where his research and teaching focus on the civil rights–Black Power movements, the student radicalism of the long 1960s, and global protest during the Cold War. His previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt (2016) and Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (2005).Brandon James Render is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include twentieth-century United States social and intellectual history, post-1945 social movements and “the culture wars,” and public policy. His dissertation, “Colorblind University,” traces the intellectual genealogy of race-neutral policies and practices in higher education through admissions policies, departmental structure, and curriculum design. In addition to service as a graduate research fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy in 2018–19, he is the 2021-22 Mitchem Dissertation Fellow at Marquette University.

Notes on Contributors

Previous articleNext article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreTara Alberts is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York. Her research examines encounters and exchanges between Europe and Asia between ca.1500 and ca.1700. She is the author of Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500–1700 (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the co-editor (with D. R. M. Irving) of Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World (I. B. Tauris, 2013). Her current projects examine circulations and translations of materials, ideas, and practices relating to health around Southeast Asia, and the intersection of the spiritual and material in beliefs about healing in the early modern world.Benjamin Breen is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (Pennsylvania, 2019), which won the American Association for the History of Medicine’s William H. Welch Medal in 2021.Montserrat Cabré is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cantabria, Spain. Her research interests include medieval women’s healthcare practices, medical and natural philosophical conceptions of the gendered body, and the history of women’s knowledge; she has published widely on these topics in several languages. Currently, she is working on a team project on the hermeneutics of the visible body in late medieval Latin medicine, as well as on a monograph on the cultural history of women’s healing practices in the Crown of Aragon between 1300 and 1500.Sietske Fransen is Max Planck Research Group Leader of the group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. She has co-edited (with Niall Hodson and Karl A. E. Enenkel) Translating Science in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017), and she is co-editor (with Katherine M. Reinhart) of “The Practice of Copying in Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” special issue, Word & Image 35, no. 3 (2019). Her primary research interests are in visual and verbal communication of early modern scientific and medical practices.Pablo F. Gómez is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His first book, The Experiential Caribbean, won the 2019 William H. Welch Medal and the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize. He is interested in histories of knowledge making, and health and corporeality in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the histories of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora. His latest book, The Gray Zones of Medicine (an edited volume), explores the history of health practices in Latin America from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century through the biographies of unlicensed healers. Gómez is currently working on a history of the quantifiable body, and medical arithmetics, emerging in the world of slave trading in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds. He is also collaborating on several projects largely related to global histories of science and medicine and histories of enslavement, health, and bodies in the Caribbean Latin America.Shireen Hamza is a historian of science and medicine in the medieval Islamic world. Her dissertation is about the ways transregional medicine (ṭibb) was made local by Muslims across the Indian Ocean world. She has also published research on the history of sexuality and the body. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University with a field in Critical Media Practice, and a managing editor of the Ottoman History Podcast.Hansun Hsiung is Assistant Professor in Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. He works at the intersection of the global history of science and media history in the nineteenth century. His book manuscript, Learn Anything!: Cheap Print and the Diffusion of Western Knowledge, traces networks of reprinting and translation across South, Southeast, and East Asia that formed the groundwork for “Western knowledge” in Japan. His publications have appeared in Isis, Contemporary Japan, PMLA, and the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.Elaine Leong is Lecturer in History at University College London specializing in histories of everyday science, medicine, and technologies in early modern Britain. Her first book, Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England (Chicago, 2018), won the 2019 Margaret W. Rossiter Prize. She has co-edited a number of volumes of essays and journal special issues, including (with Alisha Rankin) Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 (Ashgate, 2011), (with Carla Bittel and Christine von Oertzen) Working with Paper: Gendered Practices and the History of Knowledge (Pittsburgh, 2019), and (with Claudia Stein) The Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2021).Projit Bihari Mukharji is Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the history of science and medicine in modern South Asia. Mukharji is the author of three monographs: Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine (London, 2009), Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences (Chicago, 2016), and, most recently, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 (Chicago, 2022).Ahmed Ragab is a historian, physician, and documentary filmmaker. He is Associate Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the founding director of the independent Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies. Ragab’s research focuses on the history of medicine in the premodern Middle East and the Islamic world as well as on colonial and postcolonial medicine, science, and technology. He also studies and publishes on gender and sexuality in the medieval and early modern Middle East; postcolonial studies of medicine, science, and religion; and other questions in the history of medicine, science, and religion. He is the author of The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity (Cambridge, 2015), Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam (Routledge, 2018), and Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh (Routledge, 2019).Alisha Rankin is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University and co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Her first book, Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany (Chicago, 2013), won the 2014 Gerald Strauss Prize for Reformation History. She co-edited (with Elaine Leong) a collection of essays titled Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 (Ashgate, 2011). Her most recent book, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science (Chicago, 2021), examines poison antidotes, medical testing, and ideas of proof. She has published widely on a variety of topics in the history of science and medicine, and she is working on a new project on witchcraft, magic, and medicine.Daniel Trambaiolo is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He has published articles and book chapters on the history of vaccination, ways of conceptualizing epidemics, and other aspects of early modern Japanese medical history. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Ancient Texts and New Cures: Transformations of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan.Dror Weil is Assistant Professor of History at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. His teaching and research interests focus on scientific and other textual exchanges between the Islamicate world and China during the late medieval and early modern periods. He has published articles on China's participation in the early modern Islamicate book culture, the fourteenth-century transformation in China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy, the role of Chinese-Muslims as agents of scientific knowledge, and the study of Arabic and Persian texts in late imperial China. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Osiris Volume 372022Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds Published for the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/719231 Views: 147 © 2022 History of Science Society. 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David Arnold is Professor of History at Columbia Basin College where he teaches courses in US, Native American, and African American history. His first book, The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska (University of Washington Press, 2008) is a social and environmental history of Indian and non-Indian fishermen from precontact to present.Matthew M. Babcock is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas at Dallas and author of Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule. He received his PhD at Southern Methodist University, and he focuses on the history of North American borderlands, American Indians, and the colonial Southwest.Rosie C. Bermudez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her research and teaching interests include Chicana grassroots activism, social movements, and women of color feminisms. Bermudez is currently writing a book about Chicana activist Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization.Dea H. Boster is Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio. She has published several works on the history of American medicine and disability, including African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South (Routledge, 2012).Heather D. Curtis is the Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Religion at Tufts University, where she also holds appointments in the Department of History and the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Curtis received her doctorate in American Religion from Harvard University. Her research explores how religion has shaped responses to racial injustice, humanitarian disasters, and bodily illness from the late nineteenth century to the present.Justene Hill Edwards is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina (2021).David G. García earned his PhD in US History at UCLA and is Associate Professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. He is the author of the award-winning book Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality (University of California Press, 2018).Lyrianne E. González is a History PhD student minoring in Latino Studies at Cornell University. She is a mid-twentieth-century historian with focuses in US labor history, US foreign labor relations, US–Mexico relations, and im/migration. Her research investigates the racial and generational legacies of US agricultural guestworker programs.José G. Moreno is a full-time senior lecturer in ethnic studies and sociology and the Associate Director of the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University. He has published various peer review articles, critical essays, and book reviews in academic publications.Mark Newman is a reader in history at the University of Edinburgh. He thanks the University of Edinburgh Development Trust Research Fund, the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, and the Leverhulme Trust for the financial support that made this article possible.Lucy E. Salyer is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Under the Starry Flag (Harvard University Press, 2018), Laws Harsh as Tigers (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), and numerous articles on the history of immigration and citizenship policy.Ryan E. Santos is a lecturer in the Social and Cultural Analysis of Education program at California State University, Long Beach and in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. His research and teaching emphasize educational history with an emphasis on race, community resistance, and the law.Cameron Tardif is a PhD student who studies twentieth-century US history at Cornell University. His research focuses on how the relationship of slavery and freedom between the United States and Canada impacts the experiences of transnational black athletes. His work has been published in the Journal of Sport History.Lila Teeters is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Worcester State University. She received her PhD in American History from the University of New Hampshire in 2021. Her dissertation is entitled “Native Citizens: The Fight for and against Native American Citizenship, 1887–1924.”Tara J. Yosso is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Riverside. Her research seeks to recover counter-narratives of race, schooling, inequality, and the law. Her extensively cited publications examine the ways people of color utilize community cultural wealth to survive and resist racism and other forms of subordination.Hao Zou is an independent scholar based in San Francisco. His research interests include Asian American history, immigration history, race and ethnicity, and the history of the American West.

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Other| January 01 2022 Notes on Contributors Journal of American Ethnic History (2022) 41 (2): 111–112. https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.41.2.13 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Notes on Contributors. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2022; 41 (2): 111–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.41.2.13 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search Erik Bernardino is Assistant Professor of History at Bates College..Adrian De Leon is a historian, poet, and multimedia educator at the University of Southern California, where he is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity. His research explores the archival and visual histories of migrant labor, capitalism, indigeneity, and settler colonialism in the Philippines and global Filipino diasporas.Amanda C. Demmer is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Tech, where she researches and teaches at the intersection of US foreign relations, war and society, and migration studies. She is the author of After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US–Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).Deirdre Dougherty is Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Knox College. She is the author, with Paul Trachtenberg, Allison Roda, and Ryan Coughlan, of Making Integration Work: Lessons from Morris (Teachers College Press, 2020). Her work explores the relationships among racial capitalism, anti-blackness, and schooling.... You do not currently have access to this content.

Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Book Review| November 01 2022 Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez, eds. A Field Guide to White Supremacy. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 424 pp. Paperback $24.95. Max Felker-Kantor Max Felker-Kantor MAX FELKER-KANTOR is an assistant professor of history at Ball State University and the author of Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD (2018). Currently, he is finishing a book manuscript on schools, race, policing, and the D.A.R.E. program. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2022) 99 (4): 101–103. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.101 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Max Felker-Kantor; Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez. California History 1 November 2022; 99 (4): 101–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.101 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In his monumental 1944 study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, the famed Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal outlined the fundamental contradiction facing Americans at the end of World War II, that of the gulf between what he called the “American Creed,” the supposed commitment to ideals of democracy and equal opportunity, and the reality of racial discrimination and segregation. While many continue to see this gap between ideal and reality as an aberration from America’s democratic promise, the exceptional collection of essays in Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez’s A Field Guide to White Supremacy demonstrate that the persistent failure to resolve this contradiction is deeply engrained in the country’s history and that the “American dilemma” is, perhaps, all but unresolvable within the structure of the United States as presently constituted. Indeed, as its chapters collectively demonstrate, the United States as both an idea and a... You do not currently have access to this content.

Heaven's Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World

Was it for God, gold, or glory? High school history teachers sometimes use this oversimplified question to help students examine the motives of European explorers and colonizers. This question hints at the extensive scholarship evaluating imperial motives. Whether it is at the secondary or post-secondary level, the Dutch Empire often gets short shrift in Anglophone textbooks. In Heaven's Wrath, D. L. (Danny) Noorlander provides a new focused study of the Netherlands' Atlantic Empire that dismisses one old idea and breathes new life into another as part of his analysis of Calvinist influence in the West India Company (WIC). He effectively challenges prevailing truisms regarding the Dutch Empire in West Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and New Netherland.Noorlander begins by rejecting the spiritual/secular dichotomy prevalent in studies of Dutch commerce. He dismisses economic historian Jelle C. Riemersma's findings in Religious Factors in Early Dutch Capitalism 1550–1650 (The Hague: Mouton, 1967) that have remained authoritative for fifty years. Where Riemersma saw evidence of divergence between religion and commerce, Noorlander identifies a “marriage of religion, trade, and expansion” (8). He evaluates numerous primary sources found in archives on both sides of the Atlantic to challenge the “persistent infatuation” with the “commercial character of the Dutch” (7). The results push historians to recognize religious motives as integral to Dutch action in the Atlantic World.Heaven's Wrath also considers the extent to which WIC leaders promoted Calvinism, motivated in part by anti-Catholic, anti-Spanish, and anti-Portuguese sentiments. This included sacrificing profits to fund church building projects, recruit and finance the work and salaries of ziekentroosters (lay preachers) and clergy, and maintain Calvinist culture aboard ships and in colonies. Noorlander painstakingly combed records from multiple ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the Netherlands in order to determine the extent to which WIC directors simultaneously held leadership roles in the Dutch Reformed Church. This is just one way he measures Calvinist influence. Others may note that piety was not the sole reason merchants became church leaders. Noorlander accepts this analysis while simultaneously criticizing modern scholars' cynicism writing, “Unless they [the merchants] gave a selfish, materialist answer, most modern intellectuals would likely suspect their sincerity anyway” (43). It is difficult to disagree with this assessment.Second, Noorlander questions the “persistent myth of Dutch tolerance” (156). He points to multiple ways that Dutch Reformed clerics sought to establish a religious monopoly by deporting leading dissenters in order to suppress Lutherans, Anabaptists, and Jews. Noorlander contends that “faith, power, and justice worked hand in hand” (106). Among other examples, he points to Petrus Stuyvesant's appointment as director-general of New Netherland and Curaçao as a Calvinist victory. In his analysis of Stuyvesant, Noorlander identifies a clear pattern of supporting Reformed Church views, such as anti–sabbath breaking campaigns and harsh punishments of sexual crimes of adultery and sodomy, regardless of colonists' church membership. The author also finds evidence in Brazil of Calvinist persecution of other religious groups, especially Roman Catholics. This aspect of Heaven's Wrath resurrects the work of priest-scholar Frederick J. Zwierlein whose 1910 criticism of religious persecution in the Dutch Empire was panned by critics at the time as being motivated by Roman Catholic bias. While Zwierlein may have tilted at windmills of the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant establishment and anti-Catholic sentiment prominent in his day, Noorlander's study suggests he was correct. Ironically, Noorlander's criticism of cynical, secular intellectuals focusing too heavily on economic metrics while dismissing religion might provoke a similar reaction today. That would be a mistake.Noorlander's work is no page turner. It is a methodical analysis of primary sources from multiple archives, including the Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Nationaal Archief in The Hague, and libraries in New York where the author has been assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Oneonta since 2013. His primary source work is complemented by numerous secondary sources written in both Dutch and English. This investigation draws on the author's years of study while a graduate student at the University of Utah and Georgetown University in order to create a helpful addition for thoughtful scholars of church history, the Dutch Empire, and the Atlantic World. This work is best read in its entirety, but some sections can stand alone as case studies for specific geographic regions. However, readers of Pennsylvania History will likely be disappointed to discover that the Dutch settlements along the Delaware River as well as settlements on the nearby Delmarva Peninsula receive little attention. Nevertheless, the most disappointing aspect of this study is the omission of Dutch Calvinism in South Africa. Though part of the Atlantic World, the author's focus on the WIC means South Africa lies outside the scope of Heaven's Wrath.High school students might still investigate whether it was God, gold, or glory that motivated European explorers and colonizers. Nevertheless, scholarship of the Dutch Empire has come to accept gold as the answer. Noorlander offers 228 pages of analysis to remind us that religion mattered. For many, it still does. One wonders if this tells us more about the biases of western academics in the twenty-first century than it does about the Netherlands and its empire in the seventeenth. No matter your view, Heaven's Wrath poses serious questions about the much-overlooked Dutch Empire.

Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press by Kim Gallon

Reviewed by: Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press by Kim Gallon Candace Cunningham (bio) Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press. By Kim Gallon. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Pp. x, 216. $110 cloth; $26 paper; $19.95 ebook) In Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press, author Kim Gallon examines how Black newspapers [End Page 103] in the interwar period created "Black sexual public spheres" through textual and visual representations of Black sexuality in editorials, letters to the editor, newspaper articles, and fictional stories. Gallon focuses on some of the most prolific Black newspapers of the time including the Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, New York Amsterdam News, and Philadelphia Tribune. Gallon argues the Black press created multiple Black sexual public spheres that both challenged and reinforced conventional understandings of appropriate sexual behavior. These spheres redefined the definition of "race men/women" and introduced sexuality to the interwar definition of Blackness. Despite their mission to engage in racial uplift, Black newspapers regularly covered scandalous stories about African Americans. Simultaneously reporting on scandal and racial justice may have seemed like contradictory pursuits, but it reflected what reporters and editors imagined that their readership's changing demographic wanted. The Great Migration introduced these newspapers to a large working-class audience. Newspapermen believed this audience wanted to hear salacious stories about their "betters." This reporting exposed the Black middle-class' sexual exploits, therefore challenging the concept that such acts were the exclusive purview of the working-class. Gallon's research demonstrates that Black community members learned the same myths about Black women's sexuality as the white community—that respectable Black women were rare and more prone than their white counterparts to engage in sexually deviant behavior. The Black press created a Black sexual sphere that, through their coverage of Black beauty pageants and predatory lesbians, challenged and reinforced these myths. Black newspapers positioned interracial sexual relationships and marriage within the broader issue of racial segregation. They reported on these stories out of a belief that their readers wanted to know more about interracial celebrity couple's intimate lives. Yet, by [End Page 104] the dawn of World War II, Black newspapers were publishing fewer stories on the topic. Instead, they devoted more space to Black participation in the war effort. The Black press' coverage of gender-nonconforming men, gay men, and female impersonators during the 1920s and 1930s reflected an array of attitudes ranging from partial acceptance, to outright rejection. As with the other Black sexual spheres, Black newspapermen created this one because they imagined that their readers wanted visual and textual representations of queer Black men. Yet this period was short-lived. By the late 1930s the coverage was increasingly unfavorable as homosexuality became "synonymous with death of the 'race'" (p. 157). Black newspapers clearly envisioned themselves as conduits of racial progress. However, Gallon's research uncovers that in their efforts to satisfy their readers they also created a space to develop multiple sexual spheres. Pleasure in the News pushes us to reexamine what we think we know about the Black press. Many of us have spent countless hours reviewing Black media publications. They are an invaluable source about Black life, politics, and entertainment. Gallon's research is an important reminder that Black newspapers are also cultural artifacts unto themselves. Their value is not only in what they can teach us about specific people and events, but how they reflect Black American culture. This book will appeal to researchers in African American history, cultural history, gender history, journalism, and queer studies. It will be of particular interest to people who study Black sexuality, the Great Migration, the interwar period, and American migration and urbanization. [End Page 105] Candace Cunningham CANDACE CUNNINGHAM is an assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. She recently published an article, "'Hell is Popping Here in South Carolina': Orangeburg County Black Teachers and Their Community in the Immediate Post-Brown Era" in The History of Education Quarterly. She is currently working on a manuscript about the role of Black teachers in the civil...

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Jeremy Brown is professor of history at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He is the author of June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 (2021).Alexander F. Day is associate professor of history and chair of East Asian studies at Occidental College. He is the author of The Peasant in Postsocialist China: History, Politics, and Capitalism (2013).Matthew D. Johnson is an associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center. He recently edited Redefining Propaganda in Modern China: The Mao Era and Its Legacies (2021).Jan Kiely is professor and director of the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and associate editor of Twentieth-Century China. He is the author of The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901–1956 (2014) and coeditor of Modern Chinese Religion II, 1850–2015 (2015), Recovering Buddhism in Modern China (2016), and Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide (2019).Fabio Lanza is professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Arizona. His recent publications include The End of Concern: Maoism, Activism, and Asian Studies (2017).Covell F. Meyskens is assistant professor of history at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China (2020).Sigrid Schmalzer is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (2016).Aminda Smith is associate professor of history at Michigan State University. She is the author of Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People (2013).Jake Werner is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University. His research interests include labor, nationalism, everyday life, and the trajectory of global capitalism. He is currently completing a book manuscript, “Everyday Crisis and the Rise of the Masses: Life in Shanghai, 1925–1972.”

Review: Consolation Prize podcast. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

In the ingeniously named Consolation Prize podcast series, historians affiliated with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University attempt to elucidate and elevate the role of US consul in the conduct of US diplomacy. They operate from the assumption that public understanding of a consul’s function within the larger Department of State and Foreign Service is amorphous and limited at best (for example, representing the United States abroad) and endeavor to explain why consular work is critical to the protection of both Americans and their interests abroad. By focusing on the multiple roles that consuls play—both historically and contemporaneously—and situating these consuls in time and geographic space, the podcast producers allow the listeners to connect these stories to ongoing discussions concerning race, gender, labor, and identity. In so doing, the producers and invited scholars offer a more complicated and, ultimately, more valuable history of US consuls abroad.Launched during the fall of 2020, Consolation Prize’s inaugural year consists of twelve narrative-style podcasts and three bonus podcasts. The website hosting the project is straightforward, providing links to the episodes, the producers’ biographical information, project news, social media feeds, transcripts, and additional resources. Regarding this latter category, this page contains an expansive Zotero library of primary sources, including the Department of State’s Foreign Relations of the United States series, the Department of State Newsletter, and the Congressional Serial Set, among others, and links to a number of relevant websites, including those of the presidential libraries.Structurally, each episode contains an introduction to the subject, delivered, in most cases, by podcast host Abby Mullen, an assistant professor of history at George Mason University whose scholarship focuses on the First Barbary War specifically and the nineteenth century more generally. Mullen’s expertise as a diplomatic and military historian, as well as a historian with extensive digital history experience, makes her well-suited to the role of podcast host. Most episodes consist of a dialogue among the podcast producers and experts—drawn from various fields in the humanities and social sciences—designed to provide background about the particular consul or consuls and historical moment under discussion. Like any compelling conversation, this interplay among participants allows for more detailed exploration of topics, including gendered expectations, natural disasters and health epidemics, Christianity, racial discrimination, and US identity. The episodes also include a list of primary and secondary sources used in the production of the episode, with links to additional resources.The additional resources page also features an “Online Resources” category, consisting of a hyperlink to the Early American Foreign Service Database, designed and built by historian and digital humanist Jean Bauer, a relational database containing information about foreign service officers from 1775 to 1825. However, some key primary source collections have been overlooked, including the transcribed interviews of US diplomatic officials overseen by the Academy for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST). These interviews, often conducted by retired diplomats, are available on both the ADST and Library of Congress websites. Given that many of the podcast episodes predate the modern consular experience, this is not a serious omission. If future seasons feature more current content, the podcast producers might consider expanding the primary source collections to include these materials.In what I assume was a conscious decision to be approachable to listeners with differing levels of knowledge, the producers have balanced the episodes on more well-known (at least to diplomatic historians) consuls and events with episodes on more obscure consuls. With regards to the former, the producers explore the roles of Nicholas Trist or James Maury in order to get at these larger issues of defining what it meant to be an American abroad in the nineteenth century and how Trist’s and Maury’s domestic and regional experience, in this case with slavery, impacted consular work.1 The stories of lesser known consuls such as Maria Revere Balestier, Ann Chase, Caroline Van Deusen Chenoweth, and Richard Greener are more valuable, as they also touch upon these same themes but from different vantage points.2The three bonus podcasts allow the producers to go into more depth about the consular role. The first bonus episode consists of an interview with diplomatic historian Nicole Phelps, whose work has focused on nineteenth-century consuls. Phelps’s interview helps to contextualize the entire podcast series by providing a succinct explanation of a consul’s myriad roles, from assisting Americans abroad to maintaining property rights, from facilitating American trade and operating the extraterritorial legal system to providing crucial humanitarian assistance, such as food aid. Phelps sheds light on the various ranks within the consular service, consular salaries, and the methods involved in securing a consular appointment. Responding to Mullen’s question concerning why we should “care about consuls today” in telling US history, Phelps notes that consuls are a key focal point for studying transnational history and also that their true value lies in that “you’re seeing how everyday people interact with the state.” She continues, “And we can get a lot of good understanding of how the world worked, and, how the world worked, not just for really powerful people, but for lots and lots of people dealing with lots and lots of problems.”3 The bonus episode, featuring an interview with former State Department official Ambassador Maura Harty, amplifies this question. Harty, a foreign service officer who has held a variety of high-ranking department posts, makes the case that as the world has grown more complex, so has the role of the consul.4The strength of Consolation Prize lies in its ability to shine a spotlight on the lesser-known role of consul in order to explore broader themes relevant to today, while also, as Phelps suggests, to allow listeners to better understand the impact the US bureaucracy had on individuals—both at home and abroad. The podcast also reinforces the idea that many of the approaches advocated by public historians in connecting with diverse publics are applicable to other historical subfields.

The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary. Art and empire in the long nineteenth century

For the first time, a study has appeared that covers the history of art museums in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the nineteenth century, which includes not only Vienna but also Kraków, Prague, Zagreb and Budapest. In addition to studying their role as public institutions and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire, the three authors of the present volume aim to explore the place of these institutions in the wider history of European museums and collecting. Within the ‘long nineteenth century’, they focus on the period from 1867, when Austria-Hungary formally came into existence as a constitutional monarchy, and 1918, when it collapsed as a consequence of the First World War. The lead author is Matthew Rampley, professor of art history at Masaryk University (Brno). He provides the introduction, entitled ‘Museums and cultural politics in the Habsburg world’, and the first chapter, ‘The museological landscape of Austria-Hungary’, both of which are nourished by, and also provide a framework for, the five following chapters. Two of the five are contributed by Nóra Veszprémi, research fellow at Masaryk University. Her contributions, ‘The rise of the museum professions’ and ‘Principles and practices of display’, are preceded by another from Rampley, ‘Museums and their architecture’, and one by Markian Prokopovych, assistant professor of history at Durham University, entitled ‘Art, municipal programs, and urban agendas’. Prokopovych also wrote the final chapter, ‘Museums and their publics’. An epilogue by Rampley, ‘Modernity and regime’s end’, offers a bridge to his and Veszprémi’s next (currently ongoing) project, entitled Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe, 1918–1939, also based at Masaryk University. The three authors previously published Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of design, industry and the applied arts (Routledge, 2020).