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Introduction to Two Articles on the Living Wage

In this issue’s Perspectives section, I am most pleased to present two articles on the struggle to obtain the living wage in the United States. Characterized as a wage based on an estimation of the official poverty threshold for a family of four, the living wage hinges on the idea that people employed at full-time jobs, and their families, should not have to live in poverty. While the fight to achieve a living wage is historically related to the struggle to implement minimum wage laws in the first few decades of the 20th century, the present-day living wage movement obtained its first success in 1994 with the passage of a living wage statute in Baltimore. In the first article entitled “The Significance of the Living Wage for US Workers in the Early Twenty-First Century,” I discuss the advent and growth of US living wage campaigns, the coverage and provisions of living wage ordinances, the economic impact of living wage statutes as well as supplementary benefits afforded to workers and unions from the passage of living wage ordinances. In the second piece entitled, “The Harvard Living Wage Campaign: Origins and Strategy,” Dr. Amy C. Offner, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and a former editor at Dollars & Sense as well as a former organizer for the Service Employees International Union, provides an extremely interesting and smartly-written account of the successful living wage campaign conducted at Harvard University (1998–2002) from the viewpoint of a leading participant. If any of the readers of the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal are interested in commenting on the articles published in the Perspectives section, please do not hesitate to contact me. Additionally, I welcome articles and essays from the journal’s readers on a wide variety of topic in employee relations. I hope that you enjoy these two articles and find them most illuminating. Employ Respons Rights J (2013) 25:123 DOI 10.1007/s10672-013-9218-x

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Women and slavery in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba

Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population, the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. This book investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean's longest lasting slave society. Sarah L. Franklin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama.

CHARITY FOLKS, LOST ROYALTY, AND THE BISHOP FAMILY OF MARYLAND AND NEW YORK

Previous articleNext article No AccessCHARITY FOLKS, LOST ROYALTY, AND THE BISHOP FAMILY OF MARYLAND AND NEW YORKJessica MillwardJessica MillwardJessica Millward is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Search for more articles by this author Jessica Millward is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 98, Number 1Winter 2013Women, Slavery, and the Atlantic World A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.1.0024 Views: 25Total views on this site Copyright 2013 The Association for the Study of African American Life and HistoryPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History by Kathleen López (review)

Reviewed by: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History by Kathleen López Joseph L Scarpaci Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History. Kathleen López. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 2013. 352 pp., maps, photos, tables, notes. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4696-0713-9), $24.95. The new millennium cast into the academic and general public’s dialect the word ‘globalization’ as well as the call that everyone should ‘think globally and act locally.’ That may be all well and good, but this adage often falls flat when scholars aim to connect the local with global (glocal). Like the words ‘impact,’ ‘effect,’ and ‘affect,’ the terms at once say everything but communicate [End Page 234] little. As the graduate coordinator of my doctoral program was fond of harping in front of frightened graduate students many decades back, “perfectly general, perfectly true, but absolutely meaningless.” Clichés, alas, often substitute for deep, critical thinking and analysis. For these reasons, when one sees a subtitle that includes the ambitiously stated ‘transnational history,’ a little skepticism inevitably comes to mind. Geographers are no doubt even more skeptical because, after all, scale and spatial analysis situate both human and physical geographies in the broader context of social and natural sciences, respectively. Enter Kathleen López: Assistant Professor of History and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (a title that might also give one pause) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Whereas many Latinamericanist geographers struggle to speak any semblance of Spanish and conduct fieldwork with the assistance of Latin American and Caribbean scholars, Dr. López approaches the study of transnational migration to the island of Cuba armed with fluent Spanish and Chinese. Armed with extensive field work in Cuba, China, and the United States, Dr. López assembles a tour d’force that brings archival, ethnographic, and historic analyses to bear on a story that traces the history of Chinese migrants to Cuba in the nineteenth century, through the alliance with Cuban forces to overturn the colonial yoke imposed by Madrid, to the twentieth century events that include strong xenophobia, the Japanese-China war, WW II, and the Cuban Revolution. Copiously referenced and gracefully written, Chinese Cubans tells the tale of a truly global transnational migration pattern that documents how the Chinese in Cuba used investment, remittances, and return visits to bridge these migrants’ search for the best of Cuba and their homeland. The tale begins with the importation of more than 100,000 Chinese workers – indentured servants often treated as slaves because of Great Britain’s objection to the African slave trade—who build rail lines and work in sugar plantations in ways similar to how Chinese ‘coolie’ workers did in the United States. Chinese Cubans were fiercely loyal to the Cuban independence movement of the nineteenth century, and great accolades were given to them by the fiercest and most venerable of revolutionary fighters. Unlike conditions in Peru, Jamaica, and the especially harsh anti-Chinese movement in Mexico in the 1930s, we learn that Cuba was relatively welcoming (overall) in receiving the Chinese diaspora. They added to the miscegenation (mestizaje) stew (ajiaco) that Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortíz highly praised. However, to López’s credit, she calls into question the much-venerated Ortíz’s description of this marginal contribution to Cuban culture (which Ortíz postulated that, numerically at least, was a European and African fusion). The so-called ‘third founder’ of Cuba (after Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt), Ortíz derided Chinese immigrants for their certain tolerance of homosexuality, their (limited) use of opium. That is why he classified them phenotypically (i.e., “yellow mongoloids”….”and essential otherness” (p. 210). Readers will find that similar prejudices hurled upon immigrants elsewhere were also cast upon Chinese Cubans. They were often characterized as ‘inassimilable’ just as Jews were in Europe in the twentieth century and much the way Mexicans are portrayed in the current U.S. immigration debacle. When hard economic times fell upon Cuba, anti-nationalism was whipped up against Cubans of Chinese descent, who were often portrayed as perennial strike breakers and ‘scabs.’ [End Page 235] Not surprisingly, there are indirect parallels to be drawn...

Review: PLANNING LOS ANGELES, by David C. Sloane

Book Review| September 01 2012 Review: PLANNING LOS ANGELES, by David C. Sloane PLANNING LOS ANGELES. Edited by David C. Sloane. (Chicago and Washington, DC: American Planning Association Planners Press, 2012. 236 pp. $34.95 paper.). Paul J. P. Sandul Paul J. P. Sandul Paul J. P. Sandul is assistant professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas where he co-directs the public history program. His publications and research focus on California, suburbs, place, memory, and oral history. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (2012) 94 (3): 394–396. https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2012.94.3.394 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Paul J. P. Sandul; Review: PLANNING LOS ANGELES, by David C. Sloane. Southern California Quarterly 1 September 2012; 94 (3): 394–396. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2012.94.3.394 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 ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2012 The Historical Society of Southern California. All rights reserved.2012 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Desperately Seeking Mary: Materializing Mary Richardson Walker, Missionary

Abstract Documenting a historian's first foray into public history, this essay argues for the importance of material culture in the practice of history. As an assistant professor of history at Washington State University, Jennifer Thigpen embarked on a search for a number of mislaid archival materials belonging to the university's Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker collection. She quickly found herself not only caught up in the search, but convinced of the interpretive value of the artifacts she ultimately located.

After Freedom Summer: how race realigned Mississippi politics, 1965-1986

A brilliant history of black politics and white resistance in post civil rights era Mississippi. Danielson s work helps to fill the yawning gap in the black politics historiography between the Black Power movement and contemporary black politics. Additionally he makes a critical contribution to the literature of the racial realignment of the two major political parties. A must-read! G. Derek Musgrove, University of the District of Columbia A sobering account of what happened after the singing and marching stopped. Danielson s masterful analysis of Mississippi s racially divided electorate proves that, despite the election of hundreds of blacks to public office, whites still hold all the levels of political power. John Dittmer, author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiNo one disagrees that 1964 Freedom Summer forever changed the political landscape of Mississippi. How those changes played out is the subject of Chris Danielson s fascinating new book, After Freedom Summer. Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, black voter participation in Mississippi was practically zero.Aftertwenty years, black candidates had made a number of electoral gains. Simultaneously, white resistance had manifested itself in growing Republican dominance of the state. ?Danielson demonstrates how race not class or economics was the dominant factor in white Mississippi voters partisan realignment, even as he reveals why class and economics played a role in the tensions between the national NAACP and the local Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (an offshoot of SNCC) that limited black electoral gains.Using an impressive array of newspaper articles, legal cases, interviews, and personal papers, Danielson s work helps fill a growing lacuna in the study of post civil rights politics in the South.Chris Danielson is assistant professor of history at Montana Tech University.

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The History and International Relations of the Gulf Region Reconsidered

The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam. By Sean Foley . Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2010. 315 pp., $26.50 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-1-58826-706-1). The International Relations of the Persian Gulf. By F. Gregory Gause III . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 258 pp., $27.00 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-13730-0). The Arab Gulf region is of great geopolitical importance owing to its oil and natural gas deposits. Ironically, the history and international relations of the region had, for several reasons, been quite neglected by the academic arena for decades (see, e.g., Russell 2010:653). First and foremost, where political studies are concerned, this neglect had been linked with the development of the discipline itself and its debate in and toward non-Western states and societies specifically (see, e.g., Anderson 1987:1; Green 1993:517–518). Second, up until the late 1980s, studies on the Gulf region had been closely associated either with an examination of the Islamist role or with the Arab–Israeli conflict. Third, many orientalists and policy makers were more interested in examining the region to pursue their own national interests rather than understanding the special regional conditions. With the rise of new generations with the relevant academic expertise since the beginning of the 1990s, there have been new types of studies into the regional dynamics of the Gulf area (Nonneman 2001). The two reviewed books make use of this innovative approach. The Arab Gulf States is an ambitious and original work of analysis and insight written by Sean Foley, an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. The book is enhanced by the author's educational background in history. Traditionally, many scholars analyzing the region have employed the normative rentier framework, or the so-called Islamist approach. The book is ambitious because it goes beyond these already exhausted and limited approaches. Foley points out that the information age and the emergence of a younger, educated elite are factors that have forced substantial developments in the GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) and have resulted in political and economic reforms. Such factors are worth analysis on …

Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri (review)

Reviewed by: Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri Alison Clark Efford (bio) Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri. By Aaron Astor. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 332. $47.50 hardcover; $38.00 ebook) The rebels of Aaron Astor's title are not, in the first instance, Confederates. Secessionists do make an appearance in his important book on Civil War Kentucky and Missouri, but proslavery Unionists claim center stage. Astor maintains that the Americans who tried to preserve slavery and the Union rebelled against Abraham Lincoln's dictum that the United States could not survive half-slave and half-free. These Conservative Unionists, who initially constituted majorities in both border states, became the targets of other "rebels," Confederates, but also African Americans. [End Page 607] Rebels on the Border is as intricate and fine-grained as the explication of its title suggests. Astor astutely dissects the politics of Missouri, and especially Kentucky, between the election of Lincoln in 1860 and the implementation of black suffrage in 1870. For him, "politics" includes the construction of group identities, the "articulation" of group interests, and the promotion of group objectives (p. 9). Conceiving of his subject broadly, Astor examined a range of source material, from the records of army units and the Freedmen's Bureau to newspapers, personal letters, and memoirs. To limit his purview, he trained his eye on fifteen heavily slaveholding counties located in the Little Dixie region of central Missouri and the corresponding Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Astor's narrative traces the Conservative Unionist response to African American assertions of citizenship during and after the war. Rebels on the Border argues that most white Kentuckians and Missourians supported the North because they hoped to safeguard the white-supremacist status quo from extremists on either side. Their loyalty to the United States was rooted in their attraction to "stability, pragmatism, compromise, and tradition" (p. 15). Astor carefully explains how the same social and economic realities that underpinned white conservatism shaped how African Americans fought for change. In areas where slaveholdings were small, hiring-out was common, and agriculture was diversified; enslaved people established the networks and gained the local experience to take on their masters. Although African American agitation began long before black men joined Union ranks, Astor points out that enlistment firmly "recast the Union cause as a struggle for liberation" (p. 129). The transformation left Conservatives Unionists feeling "humiliation," "shame," and "betrayal" (p. 200). Astor cites the case of a Kentucky Unionist who fired on troops from Michigan because he saw a mulatto soldier. The mere presence of armed black men triggered violence, particularly in Kentucky. As the war was ending, many white residents in both states came to identify with the secessionists, becoming what Astor terms "belated Confederates" (p. 145). Black suffrage brought African [End Page 608] Americans only limited power, but it assured the ascendancy of reaction. Astor illuminates the experiences of black Kentuckians and Missourians, but the main contribution of Rebels on the Border centers on the white Unionists who eventually adopted aspects of Confederate identity. In his conclusion, Astor proposes that the areas under examination stand as a "microcosm" of the "nation as a whole," which "thoroughly accepted slavery in 1860" (pp. 243, 247). However insightful, this synecdoche sidelines the white opponents of slavery. Radical Unionists who lived outside the Little Dixie and Bluegrass counties do make cameos and populate the footnotes, but Astor's interpretation elides their role. This marginalization makes sense in Kentucky, but the white opponents of slavery cannot be so casually written out of the history of Missouri and the nation at large. It is difficult to argue that Radicals deserve yet more scholarly attention, but a discussion of their politics in the border states would have extended the significance of Astor's study. After all, white radicals were rebels too. Alison Clark Efford Alison Clark Efford is an assistant professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Cambridge University Press will publish her first book, German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era, in 2013. Copyright © 2011...

Noble strategies in an early modern small state: the Mahuet of Lorraine

Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State addresses a subject few other scholars of early modern Europe attempt: the hundreds of small states that made up the overwhelming majority of Europe's political entities before the nineteenth century. Author Charles Lipp studies the elite of the duchy of Lorraine, a territory strategically placed geographically and culturally along the frontiers dividing France and Germany, and a region contested for centuries by the Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire and the Valois and Bourbons of the kingdom of France. Rather than focus on either the dukes of Lorraine or the dynasties like the Guise or the Bassompierre, as other studies have done, this volume analyzes a family belonging to the lower nobility, the Mahuet, over several generations from the late-sixteenth through the early-eighteenth centuries. The book explores how this family rose to social prominence during a chaotic period in their homeland's history, a time marked by foreign invasion, military occupation, and an outbreak of the plague, among other trials. Charles Lipp is assistant professor of history, University of West Georgia.

The Fante and the transatlantic slave trade

The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride-are well known. Ghana also attracts a continuous flow of international tourists because of two historical sites that are among the most notorious monuments of the transatlantic slave trade: Cape Coast and Elmina Castles. These looming structures are a vivid reminder of the horrific trade that gave birth to the black population of the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade explores the fascinating history of the transatlantic slave trade on Ghana's coast between 1700 and 1807. Here author Rebecca Shumway brings to life the survival experiences of southern Ghanaians as they became both victims of continuous violence and successful brokers of enslaved human beings. The era of the slave trade gave birth to a new culture in this part of West Africa, just as it was giving birth to new cultures across the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade pushes Asante scholarship to the forefront of African diaspora and Atlantic World studies by showing the integral role of Fante middlemen and transatlantic trade in the development of the Asante economy prior to 1807. Rebecca Shumway is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.

An Introduction to Muqaddimah

DOMINIC MCGILL > It was clear from the beginning that what Cem and I wanted to do was produce a historical narrative of the past ten years. We chose a panorama, for its ability to eliminate the horizon of the audience, and drew up a rough diagram of our major areas of interest. It was only after our first full-scale test, in which we hung a large sheet of paper on a circular track from the ceiling and made our first marks, that we fully grasped the double nature of what we had embarked on. To see the drawing, we had to light the center; doing so caused the drawing to bleed through to the piece’s dimly lit outside, and it was the unintended consequences of this that structured the next two years’ work. It was a reminder that words and Murat Cem Menguc is an assistant professor of history at Seton Hall University. He received a PhD in Ottoman history from the University of Cambridge and holds an MA in Islamic studies from the Institute of Islamic Studies of McGill University. Menguc researches Ottoman and Turkish historiography and is preparing his first book, “Making of the Ottomans: Identity and Sovereignty in Early Ottoman Histories.” He is a regular contributor to the Informed Comment: Global Affairs (icga.blogspot.com) and has written about Turkish history and identity.

Book Reviews

William J. Hausman of College of William and Mary reviews “When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy” by Julia C. Ott. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the evolution of financial markets and institutions and stock investment at the beginning of the twentieth century. Discusses the problem with financial securities; the “free and open market” responds; being a stockholder in victory; mobilizing the financial nation; the postwar struggle for the financial nation; turning swords into shares; the corporate quest for shareholder democracy; finance joining in the quest for shareholder democracy; “the people's market”; and the enduring quest. Ott is Assistant Professor of History at The New School for Social Research. Index.

New worlds of violence: cultures and conquests in the early American Southeast

From the early 1500s to the mid-1700s, the American Southeast was the scene of continuous tumult as European powers vied for dominance in the region while waging war on Native American communities. Yet even before Hernando de Soto landed his expeditionary force on the Gulf shores of Florida, Native Americans had created their own cultures of violence: sets of ideas about when it was appropriate to use violence what sorts of violence were appropriate to a given situation. In New Worlds of Violence, Matthew Jennings offers a persuasive new framework for understanding the European Native American contact period the conflicts among indigenous peoples that preceded it. This pioneering approach posits that every group present in the Southeast had its own ideas about the use of violence that these ideas changed over time as they collided with one another. book starts with the Mississippian era continues through the successive Spanish English invasions of the Native South. Jennings argues that the English conquered the Southeast because they were able to force everyone else to adapt to their culture of violence, which, of course, changed over time as well. By 1740, a peculiarly Anglo-American culture of violence was in place that would profoundly influence the expansion of England s colonies the eventual southern United States. While Native African violence were present in this world, they moved in circles defined by the English. New Worlds of Violence concludes by pointing out that long-lasting violence bears long-lasting consequences. An important contribution to the growing body of work on the early Southeast, this book will significantly broaden readers understanding of America s violent past. Matthew Jennings is an assistant professor of history at Macon State College in Macon, Georgia. He is the author of Violence in a Shattered World in Mapping the Shatter Zone: European Invasion the Transformation of the Mississippian World, edited by Robbie Ethridge Sheri Shuck-Hall. His work has also appeared in The Uniting States, South Carolina Encyclopedia, A Multicultural History of the United States, and Encyclopedia of Native American History.

Book Review: Roi Ottley’s World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist

Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist. Mark A. Huddle, ed. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. 200 pp. $29.95 hbk.While Nazi gunners dropped shells on African American soldiers on the Anzio beachhead in the first half of 1944, Ernie Pyle, after talking to black cartoonist Ollie Harrington of the Pittsburgh Courier, offered to write several columns about them. He did, about the blacks who kept the military supplied with food and ammunition, but he didn't mention any issues they had to face because of their race.That helps explain the importance of the small number of black correspondents who wrote about the half-million black service members for black newspapers. John Stevens profiled twenty-seven of these correspondents in a pioneering study. Stevens chose not to include blacks who wrote for white publications. That meant leaving out Ottley, even though Ottley became the first black to write for a major American newspaper, and who thus could communicate black concerns to a white public.Roi Ottley's World War II provides an introduction to the life of Vincent Roi Ottley. The book presents his incomplete workbook of diary entries and letter and article drafts, June-December 1944, and offers thirteen selected articles from his journalistic work-ten from the liberal newspaper PM, 1942-1946. Mark Huddle, now an assistant professor of history at Georgia College, discovered this material in the St. Bonaventure University Archives when he was on the faculty at St. Bonaventure, where Ottley (1906-1960) spent the first two years of his college career on a track scholarship and where he began to develop as a writer before transferring to Michigan.Ottley became an important figure in the cultural life of Harlem in the 1930s, where he was a reporter, columnist, and editor for the Amsterdam News. Forced from the paper for his political views, he joined the Harlem branch of the Federal Writers' Project, which led to him supervising a team that included Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright. Among his friends he counted Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Fats Waller, and W. C. Handy Jr.When the United States entered World War II, Ottley was swept up in the debate over issues and strategies that African Americans should employ to advance their cause while serving their country. Ottley contributed New World A-Coming, published in 1943, in which he described for a white audience what it was like to be an African American and how African Americans viewed their past and future. He criticized violence against black soldiers in the South, which was detrimental to the US cause. The book appeared in the middle of a summer when race riots broke out in Los Angeles, Harlem, Detroit, Mobile, and elsewhere. …

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christopher r. boyer is associate professor of history and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His scholarship concentrates on the social and environmental history of modern Mexico. He is currently finishing a book on the social history of forest management in Mexico between 1880 and 1991, and he edited a volume of environmental histories of modern Mexico that will be published next year. His articles have appeared in the Latin American Historical Review, Historia Mexicana, the American Historical Review, and other journals. He is coeditor with Lise Sedrez of a University of Arizona Press book series on Latin American environmental history. His first book, Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920 – 1935 (Stanford University Press, 2003) explains how the Mexican land reform influenced rural political culture in the 1920s and 1930s.vera candiani teaches colonial Latin American history at Princeton University. A specialist on the social history of technology and environmental change, Candiani is the author of “The Great Colonial Drainage: Conflict and Collaboration in the Transformation of Mexico City’s Environment” (book manuscript under review), and “Bourbons and Water,” in Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader, edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen (University of Chicago Press, 2011).mark carey is assistant professor of history in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. He specializes in Latin American environmental history and the history of science, with a focus on climate history, natural disasters, water, health, and mountaineering. His book In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (Oxford University Press) was published in 2010. An article, “The History of Ice: How Glaciers Became an Endangered Species,” won the Leopold-Hidy Prize for the best article in the journal Environmental History in 2007. He is currently writing a book on mountaineering history in South America and collaborating with geographers in a three-year research project, funded by the National Science Foundation, on climate, water, and export agriculture in Peru.keely maxwell is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Franklin and Marshall College. She has conducted interdisciplinary ethnographic, ecological, and historical research in Peru for over a decade. Recent publications include articles on Andean energy landscapes and on Inca Trail tourism and local livelihoods. A manuscript on the cultural politics of heritage conservation and tourism in Machu Picchu is in progress. Another of her research projects analyzes historic and contemporary vicuña conservation and commodification.matthew vitz received his PhD in 2010 from New York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of the University of California, San Diego, from 2010 to 2011. Currently a visiting assistant professor of Latin American history at Dartmouth College, he is revising his dissertation, “Revolutionary Environments: The Politics of Nature and Space in the Valley of Mexico, 1890 – 1950,” into a book manuscript.emily wakild is assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University. She specializes in the history of Mexico and modern Latin America with a focus on social change, revolution, and the environment. Her book Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910 – 1940 was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2011. Recent journal articles include “Border Chasm: International Boundary Parks and Mexican Conservation, 1935 – 1945” (Environmental History, 2009) and “Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens, and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City” (Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 2007). At present she is working on a comparative history of transnational conservation and scientific research in Amazonia and Patagonia.

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“I GUESS I’M BECOMING MORE AND MORE MILITANT”: ARTHUR ASHE AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT, 1961–1968

Previous articleNext article No Access“I GUESS I’M BECOMING MORE AND MORE MILITANT”: ARTHUR ASHE AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT, 1961–1968Eric Allen HallEric Allen HallEric Allen Hall is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. Search for more articles by this author Eric Allen Hall is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA.PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 96, Number 4Fall 2011African Americans and the History of Sport A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.4.0474 Views: 205Total views on this site Copyright 2011 ASALHPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.