The Du Bois Department’s mission of transforming the world by adding to our knowledge base through excellent scholarship is fulfilled by our faculty, the students we educate, and the community members we partner with on campus and around the world. Below is a snapshot of the hundreds of books, articles, literary works, and other contributions that we have produced over the past twenty years since the founding of our doctoral program.
Faculty Publications
The Black Power Era, an intensified period of struggle for liberation and to end to racial oppression, gave rise to the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Over the past four decades it has become a leading center for scholarship and creative work on the African American experience in literature, fine artistic expressions, and historical research and publications. Below is a list of some of the most senior Du Bois Department faculty members’ work. It is selectively drawn from projects with more or less internet stable and reliable webpages. * Various articles by Afro-Am faculty are available at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst >> Afro-American Studies See our publication series at that site. A few links to key scholarly publications by Du Bois faculty with movement histories appears at the end of this page.
Selected published scholarship from graduates of our doctoral programChristopher P. Lehman, Professor and Chair, Ethnic and Women’s Studies, Saint Cloud State University Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films A Critical History of Soul Train on Television American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865 Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Associate Professor, Africana Studies at San Diego State University Race for Sanctions: African Americans against Apartheid, 1946-1994. Politics of African Diasporas: Migration, Identity, and Africanity. “Coming to Terms with the Past: The Case for a Truth and Reparations Commission on Slavery, Segregation and Colonialism.” Genocide, War Crimes and the West : History and Complicity. (2004): 361-376. African Intellectuals in the Belly of the Beast: Migration, Identity and the Politics of African Intellectuals in the North. Critical Arts, 2004. http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5707 “Post-colonial Anxieties: (re)presenting African Intellectuals.” African Affairs. 107.427 (2008): 273-282. “Piracy Redux,” Foreign Policy in Focus (18 February 2010) Stephanie Y. Evans, Professor & Chair, African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History, Clark Atlanta University Meditation and Mental Health in Black Women’s Memoirs (in progress). Anna Julia Cooper: Human Rights Educator (with Danielle Parker, forthcoming in 2017). Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment. Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History. Diaries of a Prolific Professor: Undergraduate Research from the James Haskins Manuscript Collection (with Austin S. D. Wright). “Gender and Research in the African Academy: “moving against the Grain” in The Global Ivory Tower: Black Women, Gender & Families. 2.2 (2008): 31-52. Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability (with Stephanie Y. Kanika Bell and Nsenga Burton, forthcoming in 2017). African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education (with Colette Taylor, Michelle Dunlap, and DeMond Miller, Eds.). OASIS: Oldways Africana Soup in Stories (with Sade Anderson, and Johnesha Levi) Phylon: The Clark Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, “W. E. B. Du Bois Legacy Project,” Editor, vol. 51, no 1, Fall. “Africana Studies at the Graduate Level: A TwentyFirst Century Perspective,” The Western Journal of Black Studies (Co-editor with Mark Christian) . Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas “Introduction,” Second Edition of Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town (1971) by Willie Morris. How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture. Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, 1962-1967. Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen. Closer to the Truth than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow. “‘We Became Radicalized by What We Experienced’: Excerpts from an Interview with William (Bill) Hansen, Director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s Arkansas Project,” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (Summer 2011). Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Langston Hughes Center, University of Kansas W. E. B. Du Bois: An American Intellectual and Activist. An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP. Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 (Editor). Trimiko Melancon, Associate Professor, English & African American Studies; co-director of the Women’s Studies Program, Loyola University Black Female Sexualities (with Joanne M. Braxton) Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation. “Reading Race and the Difference It Makes: (post) 9/11, Black Performance, and Cultural Production.” The Journal of Popular Culture. 47.3 (2014): 489-502. “Politics of Belonging: Race, Freedom, and Subjectivity in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s ‘Echo of Lions’.” Callaloo. 32.3 (2009): 845-854. “Towards an Aesthetic of Transgression: Ann Allen Shockley’s ‘Loving Her’ and the Politics of Same-Gender Loving.” African American Review. 42 (2008): 643-657. Tanya M. Mears, Professor of History, Worcester State University David A. Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Wayne State University Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction Industry (co-editor with Trevor Griffey). “The Detroit’s tenants’ rights movement” in The Business of Black Power,. Sandra Caona Duvivier Her manuscript is entitled Beyond Nation, Beyond Diaspora: Mapping Transnational Black American Women’s Literature. Her publications appear in Callaloo, MaComere, JENdA, and A House Divided. Eunice Angelica Whitmal, Undergraduate Program Advisor, Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts Amherst The Politics and Poetics of African American Women’s Identity Performances: (re) Reading Black Hair in Fictional /nonfictional Writings and Cultural Productions. “Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 41: 562–564. Eunice, Angelica W. Parks, Henry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Eunice, Angelica W. Duncan, Thelma Myrtle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Eunice, Angelica W. Watson, Ella. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. The Seeker: Poems. Atlanta, Ga: Blackwood Press, 1986. “Blues in Stereo: the Texts of Langston Hughes in Jazz Music.” African American Review. 42.3 (2008): 503-512. Tkweme, W S. “Blues Music in the Sixties: a Story in Black and White.” Journal of American History. 97.4 (2011): 1179-1180. Lindsey R. Swindall, Teaching Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology The Politics of Paul Robeson’s Othello. Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art. The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955. American Appetites: A Documentary Reader (with Jennifer J. Wallach). Reading Faulkner (Co-editor). Michael Kwame Forbes, Zebulon V Miletsky, Assistant professor of Africana Studies and History at Stony Brook University Zebulon, V M. Boston Riots of 1975 and 1976. , 2009. Miletsky, Zebulon V. “Book Review: Race Men.” The New England Quarterly. 72.1 (1999): 158-159. Miletsky, Zebulon V. “Book Review: Black-Brown: Relations and Stereotypes.” The Journal of African American History. 89.4 (2004): 372-374. Thomas John Edge Lloren Addison Foster The Politics of Creation: the Short Story in South Africa and the Us. ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2007 Ousmane Kirumu Greene, Associate Professor, Department of History, Clark University Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement. , 2014. “U.S. Slavery and the Black Radical Tradition: the 25th Anniversary Edition of Sterling Stuckey’s Slave Culture.” Reviews in American History. 43.4 (2015): 729-735. http://muse.jhu.edu.silk.library.umass.edu/article/604444 “‘The Cause Is God’s and Must Prevail’: Building an Anticolonizationist Wall in Great Britain, 1830-1850.” (2014). Christopher Matthew Tinson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History in Hampshire College The Fight for Freedom Must Be Fought on All Fronts: “liberator” Magazine and Black Radicalism, 1960-1971. Daniel N. McClure, Assistant Professor, Department of Africology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Document Retrieval Based on Clustered Files. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms, 1982. Print. Alesia Elaine McFadden, Anthony James Ratcliff, Jason T. Hendrickson, Anthony Guillory, “Book Review: Men’s College Athletics and the Politics of Racial Equality: Five Pioneer Stories of Black Manliness, White Citizenship, and American Democracy.” Journal of African American History. 100.1 (2015): 170-172. “Book Review: Benching Jim Crow: the Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980.” Journal of African American History. 97.3 (2012): 341-342. Print. http://www.jstor.org.silk.library.umass.edu/stable/10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.3.0341 Julia S. Charles, Heather Zahra Caldwell, Emahunn Campbell, “A Critique of the Occupy Movement from a Black Occupier.” The Black Scholar. 41.4 (2015): 42-51. Print. http://www.tandfonline.com.silk.library.umass.edu/doi/abs/10.5816/blackscholar.41.4.0042 Markeysha D. Davis, Karla V. Zelaya, Vanessa Fabien Donald Geesling Allia Abdullah Matta, Assistant Professor at CUNY LaGuardia Community College James Gregory Carroll, David M. Swiderski, Ernest L. Gibson III, https://www.rhodes.edu/bio/gibsone
McKinley Eric Melton, Assistant Professor, English, Email: mmelton@gettysburg.edu
Jamal E Watson
http://www.nysun.com/authors/Jamal+Watson Kabria Baumgartner, Assistant Professor, History, College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio (on leave 2016-2017)
Jonathan Bryan Fenderson, Assistant Professor, African & African American Studies, Washington University, St Louis Catherine Lynn Adams Jacqueline M Jones David Lucander, Associate Professor, Multicultural Studies Technology Center, Room 8300
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With Robert Chrisman, “Ten Reasons: A Response to David Horowitz,” Black Scholar 31 (Summer 2001): 49-55. [html file]
“Religious Heterodoxy and Nationalist Tradition: The Continuing Evolution of the Nation of Islam,” Black Scholar 26 (Fall-Winter 1996): 2-34; rpt. in New Trends and Developments in the World of Islam, ed. Peter B. Clarke (London: Luzac Oriental, 1998), 313-52.
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African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century (Pearson 2004)
Strangers & Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks & Jews in the United States (UMass Press 1999)
http://www.umass.edu/umpress/fall_99/adams.html
See story on the co-edited volume at UMass Amherst Jewish Affairs website
http://www.umass.edu/jewish/programs/BlackJewishRelations/
African American Women & the Vote, 1837-1965
By Ann D. Gordon, Bettye Collier-Thomas, John H. Bracey, Arlene Voski Avakian, Joyce Avrech Berkman, 1997
Professor Bracey is the Academic Editor for LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions’ Primary sources on the civil rights movement, rare materials on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/hist/aa/advisers.asp
Selected Works of John H. Bracey, Jr.
http://works.bepress.com/john_bracey/
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William Strickland, Associate Professor
Malcolm X: Make It Plain, text by William Strickland; oral histories selected and edited by Cheryll Y. Greene (Viking 1994)
http://aalbc.com/books/malcolm.htm
Selected Works of William L. Strickland
http://works.bepress.com/bill_strickland/
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Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Professor Emeritus
See his webpage (click name) for links to his published research and creative work
http://www.umassmag.com/Spring_2004/Finding_Peace__more_images_608_1.html
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Amilcar Shabazz, Professor
[PDF] Ahmad A. Rahman’s Making of Black ‘Solutionaries’ by Amilcar Shabazz – The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.8, no.9, December 2015
http://www.jpanafrican.org/vol8no9.htm
Women and Others: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire. Co-editor with Celia R. Daileader and Rhoda E. Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2007.
http://us.macmillan.com/womenothers
Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas.University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1113
Encyclopedia Entries & Other Publications“Inman Edward Page” and “James Edward ‘Jimmy’ Rushing,” in African American History in the American West: Vignettes of Significant People and Places website created and edited by Quintard Taylor, Jr. (2006) http://www.blackpast.org/?q=contributor/shabazz-amilcar
Selected Works of Amilcar Shabazz http://works.bepress.com/shabazz_a/