Reading List – Dr. Martin Summers
United States: Civil War to Civil Rights
Race in post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow U.S. (Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction,
the emergence of Jim Crow, migration, etc)
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C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951)
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C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)
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Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1980)
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Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
(1980)
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Edward L. Ayers, Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the 19th-Century
American South (1985)
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Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since
Emancipation (1986)
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James D. Anderson, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (1987)
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Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)
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Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the
Emergence of the New South (1988)
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George Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989)
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Elsa Barkeley Brown, “Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African
American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom,” in The Black Public
Sphere, ed. Black Public Sphere Collective (1995)
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Edward J. Larson, Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (1996)
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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White
Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996)
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David Oshinsky, Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow
Justice (1997)
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Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the
Civil War (1998)
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Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South,
1890-1940 (1999)
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David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001)
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Michele Mitchell, Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial
Destiny after Reconstruction (2004)
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Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from
Slavery to the Great Migration (2005)
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David Quigley, Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of
American Democracy (2005)
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Ronald M. Labbe and Jonathon Lurie, The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation,
Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment (2005)
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Elaine Franz Parsons, “Midnight Rangers: Costume and Performance in the
Reconstruction-Era Klu Klux Klan,” JAH 92 (Dec. 2005), 811-836
Reading List – Dr. Martin Summers
United States: Civil War to Civil Rights
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Leslie Brown, Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community
Development in the Jim Crow South (2008)
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Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the
Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (2008)
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Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in
America (2009)
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James R. Grossman. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great
Migration (1991)
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Davarian Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black
Urban Life (2007)
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Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons, Contested Terrain: African American Women Migrate From the
South to Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900-1950 (2002)
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James Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White
Southerners Transformed America (2005)
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Phillips, Kimberley L. Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community, and
Working-Class Activism in Cleveland 1915-1945 (1999)
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Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed
America (2011)
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Joe William Trotter, ed., The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions
of Race, Class, and Gender (1991)
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James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great
Migration (1989)
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Robin F. Bachin, Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago
(2004)
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Adam Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago 1940-1955
(2007)
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Kevin Mumford, Interzones: Black White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the
Early Twentieth Century (1997)
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Kevin K. Gaines, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the
Twentieth Century (1996)
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Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of
Segregation (2009)
The Responses to: (Industrialization, Urbanization, Progressivism, labor activism, the
Great Depression and New Deal, etc)
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Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Street Car Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
(1962)
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Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (1956)
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Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order (1967)
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Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1977)
Reading List – Dr. Martin Summers
United States: Civil War to Civil Rights
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Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991)
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T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of
American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981)
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Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982)
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Beatrix Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in
Progressive America (2001)
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Gordon, Linda. Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare 18901935.
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Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial
City (2002)
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Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century
New York (1986)
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Mary Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female
Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (1995)
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Jennifer Fronc, New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era
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Mara L Keire, For Business & Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in
the United States, 1890-1933
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Robert Johnston, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of
Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003)
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Daniel Walkowitz, Working With Class: Social Work and the Politics of Middle-Class
Identity (1999)
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Elizabeth Lunbeck, Psychiatric Persuasion Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern
America (1995)
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Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
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Lizabeth Cohen. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939
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Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar
Detroit
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George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay
Male World, 1890-1940
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Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in
Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
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Matthew Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the
Alchemy of Race (1999)
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Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown
(2001)
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Mary Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous
Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
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Natalia Molina, Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
(2006)
Reading List – Dr. Martin Summers
United States: Civil War to Civil Rights
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Warren Susman, Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the
Twentieth Century (1984)
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John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1955)
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Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
(1999)
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Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform (1995)
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Kelley, Robyn. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
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Kirby, John B. Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race
Social movements in post-World War II U.S. (Civil Rights movement, feminism, the
Chicana movement, etc.)
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Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
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Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black
America's Struggle for Equality
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Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the
Mississippi Freedom Struggle
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Darlene Clark Hine, “Black Professionals and Race Consciousness: Origins of the Civil
Rights Movement, 1890-1950,” Journal of American History 89 (March 2003): 1279-94
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Howard Ball, The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
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Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
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Johanna Schoen, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in
Public Health and Welfare
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Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century
America
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Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar
America.
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Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
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Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)
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Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (1989)
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Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed
America (2006)
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Marc Stein, The City of Brotherly and Sisterly Love: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia,
1945-1972 (2004)
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John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual
Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (1983)
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Mark Brilliant, The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil
Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 (2010)
Reading List – Dr. Martin Summers
United States: Civil War to Civil Rights
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the
Past,” Journal of American History (March 2005)
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David Gutierrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the
Politics of Ethnicity (1995)
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Laurie Green, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom
Struggle (2007)
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Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic
Vision (2005)
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Timothy Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
(2001)
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Steve Estes, I am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (2005)
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Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in
Modern America
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Robin D.G. Kelley. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class.
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Robert Weisbrot, Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement
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Ruth Milkman, “Women’s History and the Sears Case,” Feminist Studies 12 (Summer
1986)
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Amy Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in
the 1960s, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
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Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
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Nan Alamilla Boyd, Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
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Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2002)