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With contributions from leading American and European scholars, this collection of original essays surveys the actors and the modes of writing history from the "margins" of society, focusing specifically on African Americans.
Nearly 100 years after The Journal of Negro History was founded, this book assesses the legacy of the African American historians, mostly amateur historians initially, who wrote the history of their community between the 1830s and World War II. Subsequently, the growth of the civil rights movement further changed historical paradigms--and the place of African Americans and that of black writers in publishing and in the historical profession. Through slavery and segregation, self-educated and formally educated Blacks wrote works of history, often in order to inscribe African Americans within the main historical narrative of the nation, with a two-fold objective: to make African Americans proud of their past and to enable them to fight against white prejudice.
Over the past decade, historians have turned to the study of these pioneers, but a number of issues remain to be considered. This anthology will contribute to answering several key questions concerning who published these books, and how were they distributed, read, and received. Little has been written concerning what they reveal about the construction of professional history in the nineteenth century when examined in relation to other writings by Euro-Americans working in an academic setting or as independent researchers.
Contents
Introduction
Claire Parfait, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, and Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
PART I: New Perspectives on African American History
Chapter 1. "The grandest book ever written": Advertising Joseph T. Wilson's Black Phalanx (1888)
Claire Parfait
Chapter 2. A Race Against Obscurity: Merl R. Eppse and The Negro, Too, in American History
Cheryl Knott
Chapter 3. Abolitionist Black Histories and Historians in Massachusetts Petitions
Nicole Topich
Chapter 4. From the Margins with a Legacy of Agency in Africanity: An Encyclopedic Idea
Michael Benjamin
PART II : Material and Visual Culture and the Writing of History
Chapter 5. Work, Class, and Respectability in Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory or, A Monitor for Private Families (Boston, 1827)
Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry
Chapter 6. Expressions of Self and Belonging: Enslaved People and Race-Based Fashion in the Antebellum U.S. South
Katie Knowles
Chapter 7. African American Quilts: Color, Creation, (Counter)Culture
Géraldine Chouard
Chapter 8. Freeman Murray and the Art of Social Justice
James Smalls
Chapter 9. Romare Bearden: The Making of a Black Political Cartoonist
Amy Kirschke
Notes on the Contributors and Editors
Index
