Bibliography

“Uninvited Neighbors” on display at Oklahoma University Press booth at OAH (Organization of American Historians) conference in St. Louis, April 2015. Copyright Herbert G. Ruffin II

Africans on the North American Frontier, 1501-1848

Regional Surveys

Blackpast.org, African American History in the American West Timeline.” (Press for Link)
Monroe Lee Billington, and Roger D. Hardaway, eds. African Americans on the Western Frontier. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998.
Albert S. Broussard, Expectations of Equality: A History of Black Westerners. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2012.
Douglas Flamming, African Americans in the West. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009.
William Loren Katz. The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
Quintard Taylor. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West, 1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

State Surveys

Alwyn Barr. Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
Lawrence De Graaf, Quintard Taylor, and Kevin Mulroy, et al. Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Bruce A. Glasrud, ed. The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology. Texas Tech University Press, 2007.
___. African Americans in South Texas History. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Paul D. Lack. The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.
Rudolph M. Lapp. Blacks in Gold Rush California. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Elizabeth McLagan. A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1778-1940. Portland, OR: Georgian Press, 1980.
Oakland Museum of California. Picture This: California Perspectives on American History. (Press for Link)

Urban Histories

Lonnie Bunch. Black Angelenos: The Afro-American in Los Angeles 1850-1950. Los Angeles, 1989.
Herbert G. Ruffin II. Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Santa Clara County from the Spanish Era to the Silicon Valley. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
Carey Wintz. Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

Latin American Histories

George Reid Andrews. Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Herman L. Bennett. Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Leslie Bethell, Colonial Spanish America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Mark A. Burkholder, Colonial Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Magali M. Carrera, Imagining identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
R. Douglas Cope. The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
George Hammond and Agapito Rey, eds. Narratives of the Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542: Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, 1540-1940. Volume 2. Whitefish, MT: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012.
___. Don Juan de Onate: Colonizer of New Mexico, 1595-1628. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1953.
Ilona Katzew. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
Colin M. MacLachan and Jaime E. Rodriquez O. The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Minority Rights Group, eds. No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today. London: Minority Rights Group, 1996.
Magnus Morner, ed. Race and Class in Latin America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Colin Palmer. Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Miriam Jiménez Román, and Juan Flores, eds. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
Leslie B. Rout, Jr. The African Experience in Spanish America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Marc Simmons. Coronado’s Land: Essays on Daily Life in Colonial New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
David J. Weber. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

Multiracial Histories

Jack D. Forbes. Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Michael D. Green. The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
William Loren Katz. Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1986.
Leslie G. Kelen, and Eileen Hallett Stone eds. Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1996.
Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Dedra S. McDonald, “Intimacy and Empire: Indian-African Interaction in Spanish Colonial New Mexico, 1500-1800” in The American Indian Quarterly v. 22, no. 1-2; (Winter/Spring 1998), 134-56.
Kevin Mulroy. Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila and Texas. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University, 1993.
Kenneth W. Porter. The Black Seminoles: History Of A Freedom-Seeking People. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996.
Richard Price, ed. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Biographies

James P. Beckworth. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
Robert B. Betts. In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1985.
Anita R. Bunkley, Emily, The Yellow Rose (Rinard, IL: Rinard Publishing, 2011)
Elinor Wilson. Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man, War Chief of the Crows, Trader, Trapper.... Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 1980.

Women & Gender Studies

Ramon A. Gutierrez. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Quintard Taylor, and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, eds. African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Slavery & Conquest Histories

Tomás Almaguer. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, eds., Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Eugene H. Berwanger. The Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Newell G. Bringhurst. Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
James F. Brooks, ed. Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Randolph B. Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Philip D. Curtin. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
John Hope Franklin, and Loren Schweninger. Runaway Slaves: Rebels On The Plantation, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Reginald Horsman. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Patricia Nelson Limerick. The Legacy Of Conquest: The Unbroken Past Of The American West. New York: Norton, 1987.
Clyde A. Milner II, Anne M. Butler, David Rich Lewis, eds. Major Problems in the History of the American West. Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, 1997.
Francis Paul Prucha. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
George P. Rawick, ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography: The Texas Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
___. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography: The Oklahoma Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Richard Slotkin. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology Of The American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 1973.
Richard White. It's Your Misfortune And None Of My Own. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

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Africans on the North American Frontier, 1501-1848

Tomás Almaguer. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.