Books in the Crosscurrents in African American History series

The essays in this collection offer new evidence and new conclusions on topics in the history of African Americans in Virginia such as the demography of early slave imports, the means used to regulate slave labor, the situation of female hired slaves in the backcountry, African American women in the Civil War era, and the Garveyite grassroots organizations of the 1920s.

The essays in this collection offer new evidence and new conclusions on topics in the history of African Americans in Virginia such as the demography of early slave imports, the means used to regulate slave labor, the situation of female hired slaves in the backcountry, African American women in the Civil War era, and the Garveyite grassroots organizations of the 1920s.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James Forten, clergymen Henry McNeal Turner and J.H. Jackson, and activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Thematic essays in the volume consider southern black conservatism in the late nineteenth century and after World War I, African American success manuals, Ellisonian cultural criticism , the Nation of Islam, and African Americans and the Republican Party after 1964.

First published in 2002. The Art of The Possible is a new study of the ideas and achievements of Booker T. Washington, the most influential African American leader of the period 1881-1915.

Jorge I. Dominguez has brought together experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and the US to explore transnational aspects of crime, migration, trade, security, democracy, and international financial institutions in the Americas.

A new wave historian mines previously unexamined documents of the Amite county seat courthouse (Liberty, MS) in relating the lives of black Americans under and freed from slavery. Main foci are: slave law, gender issues, local churches, the "troubles" of 1861-65 as related in a slaveowner's diary w

This in-depth study focuses on black women migrants to the Northern states of America and in doing so examines the interaction of race, class, regionalism, and gender during the early years of the 20th century.

Compares the differences and similarities in the experiences of Black women enslaved in colonial Canada and Jamaica. The book demonstrates how differences in the exploitation of women's productive and reproductive labour caused slavery to falter in Canada and excel in the Caribbean.

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups, presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.

The Art of The Possible is a new study of the ideas and achievements of Booker T. Washington, the most influential African American leader of the period 1881-1915.

Professor Clarence Taylor sheds some much-needed light on the rich intellectual and political tradition that lies in the black religious community.

This collection explores the social products and meaning of Europe's fascination with African America. This includes an examination of early, classic influences (jazz, Josephine Baker, Katherine Dunham) through an Afro-centric perspective.

This volume studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.

A collection of original essays offering a mixture of analytic and contextual approaches to key questions of the modern urban black experience.

This collection explores the social products and meaning of Europe's fascination with African America. This includes an examination of early, classic influences (jazz, Josephine Baker, Katherine Dunham) through an Afro-centric perspective.

Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe and Africa, this book analyses the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, and the impact of that legacy on race relations in Germany.