The African American West in 20th and 21st Century History and Culture

British Columbia

• Evelyn C. White, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone

 

California

• Harriett Arnold, Antioch, A Place of Christians: Chronicles of An African-American Church 1893-1993 (San Mateo, CA: Western Book Journal Press, 1993)

• Mark Baldassare (ed.), The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994)

• Lawrence Bobo, Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000)

• Calvin H. Bowers, Realizing the California Dream: The Story of the Black Churches of Christ in Los Angeles (Las Vegas: DocMo Enterprises, 2001)

• Homer Broome Jr., LAPD'S Black History, 1886-1976 (1978), Alonzo Smith, "Black Employment in the Los Angeles Area, 1938-1948" (Dissertation: University of California, Los Angeles, 1978)

• Albert S. Broussard, Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993)

• Lonnie G. Bunch, Black Angelenos: The Afro-American in Los Angeles, 1850-1950 (Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum, 1988)

• Keith E. Collins, Black Los Angeles: The Maturing of the Ghetto, 1940-1950 (Saratoga, CA: Century Twenty One Pub., 1975)

• Lawrence P. Crouchett, Lonnie G. Bunch, and Martha Kendall Winnacker, Visions Toward Tomorrow: The History of the East Bay Afro-American Community, 1852-1977 (Oakland, CA: Northern California Center for Afro-American History and Life, 1989)

• Douglas Henry Daniels, Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1980)

• J. McFarline Ervin, The Participation of the Negro in the Community Life of Los Angeles (San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1973)

• Donald E. Hausler, Blacks in Oakland: 1852-1987 (Oakland, CA: Donald E. Hausler, 1987)

• Douglas Flamming, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005)

• Arthur E. Hippler, Hunter's Point: A Black Ghetto (New York: Basic Books, 1974)

• Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon (eds.), Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (New York: New York University Press, 2010)

• Mike Garcia, "Adaptation Strategies in the Los Angeles Black Community, 1883-1919" (Dissertation: University of California, Irvine, 1985)

• Alison Rose Jefferson, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020)

• Kevin Leonard, The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006)

• Francis M. Lortie, San Francisco's Black Community, 1870-1890 (San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1973)

• Larry Martin, The Doctrines and Discipline of the Azusa Street Apostolic Faith Mission of Los Angeles (Joplin, MO: Christian Life Books, 2000)

• Carol Lynn McKibben, Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011)

• Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000)

• Mary Ellen Bell Ray, The City of Watts, California; 1907 to 1926 (Los Angeles, CA: Rising Pub., 1985)

• Chris Rhomberg, No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004)

• Herbert G. Ruffin II, Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)

• Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)

• Martin Schiesl and Mark M. Dodge (eds.), City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006)

• Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003)

• Josh Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003)

• Anna Deavere Smith, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (New York: Anchor Books, 1994)

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Kansas

• Charles E. Coulter, Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939 (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006)

• Thomas C. Cox, Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982)

• Dennis Domer and Barbara Watkins Domer, Embattled Lawrence: Conflict & Community (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Continuing Education, 2001)

• Delia C. Gillis, Kansas City (MO) (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007)

• Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Second Edition: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014)

• Susan G. Greenbaum, The Afro-American Community in Kansas City, Kansas: A History (Kansas City, KS: The City, 1982)

• G. S. Griffin, Racism in Kansas City: A Short History (Traverse City, MI: Chandler Lake Books, 2015)

• Sherry Lamb Schirmer, A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002)

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Oklahoma

• Alfred L. Brophy, Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

• Scott Ellsworth, Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982)

• Buck Colbert Franklin, The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: An Eyewitness Account (Independently published, 2022)

• Eddie Faye Gates, They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1997)

• James S. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002)

• Hannibal B. Johnson, Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1998)

• Tim Madigan, The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001)

• Zella J. Black Patterson, Langston University: A History (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979)

 

Oregon

• Kimberly Moreland, The History of Portland's African American Community, 1805 to the Present (Portland: Portland Bureau of Planning, 1993)

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Texas

• Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz (eds.), Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1992)

• Robert D. Bullard, Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1987)

• Maceo C. Dailey, Jr. and Kristine Navarro (eds.), Wheresoever My People Chance to Dwell: Oral Interviews with African American Women of El Paso (Baltimore: Imprint Edition, 2000)

• Alan B. Govenar and Jay F. Brakefield, Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1998)

• Kenneth Mason, Paternal Community: African Americans and Race Relations in San Antonio, Texas, 1867-1937 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998)

• Jason J. McDonald, Racial Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012)

• Michelle M. Mears, And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865 to 1928 (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2009)

• Bernadette Pruitt, The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2013)

• Jerelyne Castleberry Williams, The Brackenridge Colored School: A Legacy of Empowerment through Agency and Cultural Capital Inside An African American Community (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006)

• Roy H. Williams and Kevin J. Shay, Time Change: An Alternative View of the History of Dallas (Dallas: To Be Publishing, 1991)

• William H. Wilson, Hamilton Park: A Planned Community in Dallas (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

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Washington

• Mary E. Abrums, Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2009),

• Sandra M. Chait, Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013)

• Joseph Franklin, All Through the Night: The History of Spokane Black Americans, 1860-1940 (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1989)

• Gary Reese Fuller, Who We Are: An Informal History of Tacoma's Black Community (Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Public Library, 1992)

• Mary T. Henry, Tribute: A Guide to Seattle's Public Parks and Buildings Named for Black People: With Brief Biographical Sketches (Seattle, WA: Statice Press, 1997)

• Esther Hall Mumford, Seattle's Black Victorians, 1852-1901 (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1980)

• ___. Seven Stars and Orion: Reflections of the Past (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1986)

• Quintard Taylor, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994)

• DeCharlene Williams, A History of Seattle's Central Area (Seattle: Central Area Chamber of Commerce, 1990)

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