Steven A. Reich - The World of Jim Crow America

EDITOR

Steven A. Reich is a professor of history at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He teaches courses in labor, African American, and Southern history as well as on the history of modern economic inequality. He is the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration (2006) and the author of A Working People: A History of African American Workers since Emancipation (2013), as well as articles on Southern labor history, the Great Migration, and black political activism in the Jim Crow era. He is a past recipient of the Organization of American Historians Louis M. Pelzer Memorial Award.

CONTRIBUTORS

Elizabeth Abel is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis (1989) and Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow (2010). She has published essays on gender, race, psychoanalysis, and visual culture.

Joseph Abel is a research historian and curator at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. An expert in the history of American labor unions and equal employment law, he holds a PhD in history from Rice University and has published articles in a number of scholarly journals.

Omar H. Ali is a professor of African American history and the global African diaspora at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he serves as dean of Lloyd International Honors College. He is the author of In the Lions Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 18861900 (2013).

Jeffrey E. Anderson is the associate director of the School of Humanities at the University of Louisiana Monroe. He is the author of Conjure in African American Society (2005), Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure: A Handbook (2008), and the Voodoo Encyclopedia (2015).

Jamie M. Arjona is an anthropology doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the affective, material dimensions of race and racialization that imbricated queer experiences in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Sarah Barksdale is a historian at the United States Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

Scott Alves Barton had a career as an executive chef before becoming a food studies scholar and professor at NYU and Queens College. His research, films, and publications focus on the intersection of secular and sacred cuisine as a marker of identity politics and feminine agency in northeastern Brazil.

Evan P. Bennett is an associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont (2014) and coeditor of Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction (2012).

Jane Berger is an assistant professor of history and chair of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Program at Moravian College. She is the author of Fighting Poverty Lacks the Glamour It Had in the 1960s: Race, Gender and Public-Sector Employment in Baltimore, which is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

R. Bruce Bickley is a professor of English, emeritus, at Florida State University. His books include The Method of Melvilles Short Fiction (1975), Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study (2008), Critical Essays on Joel Chandler Harris (1981), and annotated secondary bibliographies on Harris (1978; and with Hugh Keenan, 1997).

Travis D. Boyce is an associate professor of Africana studies at the University of Northern Colorado. His research interests are in contemporary African American history and popular culture. He is the coeditor of Historicizing Fear (in press with the University Press of Colorado) and a guest coeditor for the journal Fashion, Style and Popular Culture that will focus on fashion, style, aesthetics, and Black Lives Matter.

Shane Breaux is currently writing his dissertation on African, Latin, and Asian American comedians performances of race in early 20th-century musical variety at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He teaches African American theater history and other courses at various campuses in New York City.

Dorothea Browder is an associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University. She has published her research on the YWCA in the Journal of Womens History, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Rhode Island History, and is writing a book on the YWCAs Industrial Program.

Samantha Bryant is a PhD candidate in history at University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on 20th-century African American history and politics and U.S. cultural history. She is currently working on her dissertation, which explores a controversial 1962 rape case that took place in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Beverly Bunch-Lyons is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Contested Terrain: African American Women Migrate from the South to Cincinnati, Ohio 19001950 (2002). Her current research on juke joints in the South explores the nexus between race, leisure, poverty, and underground economies.

Rikki Byrd is a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also the coeditor of the online site The Fashion and Race Syllabus: An Evolving Study of Fashion and Representation.

Farrah Gafford Cambrice is an assistant professor of sociology at Prairie View A&M University, where she is currently researching college readiness among minority students in Houston, Texas. She has published several articles on race, class, and community building in leading academic journals.

Fred Carroll is a lecturer at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century (2017).

Floris Barnett Cash retired from Stony Brook University in 2011, where she taught African American history in the Department of Africana Studies. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, she is the author of African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 18961936 (2001).

Robert Cassanello is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida and is the author of the book To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville (2016).

Marvin Chiles is a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia specializing in the history of black politics, urban studies, and Southern history.

Michele Grigsby Coffey is an instructor of history at the University of Memphis. She is coeditor of Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a US Region (2017). Her article The State of Louisiana v. Charles Guerand: Interracial Sexual Mores, Rape Rhetoric, and Respectability in 1930s New Orleans in Louisiana History won the Presidents Memorial Award for the best article published in that journal in 2013.

Angela Jill Cooley is an associate professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She authored the book To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South (2015) as well as numerous book chapters and articles on the connections between food and race.

Marvin P. Dawkins is a professor of sociology at the University of Miami and has served as its faculty athletics representative to the Atlantic Coast Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 2012. He is coauthor (with Graham C. Kinloch) of