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

Regional

• James P. Beckwourth, The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, As Told to Thomas D. Bonner (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1856)

• Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, T. Garcia, Terry Wilson (eds.), Peoples of Color in the American West (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co., 1993)

• John M. Corroll (ed.), The Black Military Experience in the American West (New York: Liveright, 1971)

• John Upton Terrell, Estevanico, the Black (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1968)

• Arlen L. Fowler, Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971)

• Franklin J. James, Betty L. McCummings, and Eileen A. Tynan, Minorities in the Sunbelt (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1984)

• William Loren Katz, Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage (New York: Atheneum, 1986)

• William H. Leckie, The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967)

• Dan Moos, Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2005)

• Kevin Mulroy, Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1993)

• Kevin Mulroy, The Seminole Freedmen: A History (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007)

•  Nolie Mumey, James Pierson Beckwourth, 1856-1866, An Enigmatic Figure of the West: A History of the Later Years of His Life (Denver, CO: Fred A. Rosenstock, 1957)

 

Arizona

• Bradford Luckingham, Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1994)

 

California

• Lauren Araiza, To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)

• Mark Brilliant, The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

• Rufus P. Browning and others, Protest Is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984)

• Edward T. Chang and Russell C. Leong (eds.), Los Angeles, Struggles Toward Multiethnic Community: Asian American, African American & Latino Perspectives (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993)

• Robert Lee Johnson, Compton (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012)

• Josh Kun and Laura Pulido (eds.), Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013)

• Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008)

• Laura Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)

• Mark Wild, Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005)

 

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Kansas

• Kim Cary Warren, The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

 

Oklahoma

• Annie Heloise Abel, The Slaveholding Indians (Cleveland: A.H. Clark, 1915)

• Arthur T. Burton, Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907 (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1991)

• David A. Chang, The Color of Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

• Robert Elliott Flickinger, The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy (Pittsburgh, PA: Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, 1914)

• Jeff Guinn, Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro (New York: J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002)

• Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977)

• ___. The Cherokee Freedmen: From Emancipation to American Citizenship (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978)

• ___. The Chickasaw Freedmen: A People Without a Country (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980)

• Katja May, African Americans and Native Americans in the Cherokee and Creek Nations, 1830s-1920s: Collision and Collusion (New York: Garland Publishing, 1996)

• Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland (eds.), Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006)

• Celia Naylor, African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008)

• Claudio Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of the American Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)

• Circe Dawn Sturm, Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002)

• Murray R. Wicket, Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865-1907 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000)

 

Oregon

• Jun Xing and Erlinda Gonazles-Berry, Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Racialized Ethnic Minorities in Oregon (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007)

 

Texas

• Brian Behnken, The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2011)

• Neil Foley, Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010)

• Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997)

•  Shirley Boteler Mock, Dreaming the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010)

• Eui-Young Yu (ed.), Black-Korean Encounter: Toward Understanding and Alliance: Dialogue between Black and Korean Americans in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1994)

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