BiBLIOGRAPHY
A sampling of the materials that inspired Jeffery Robinson's talk.
Research assistance provided by Felicitas R. Jaima, Ph.D. African Diaspora History, NYU
Raising Anti-Racist Children:
Bronson, Po, and Ashley Merryman. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children. New York: Twelve, 2009
Stereotypes, Coded Language, & Implicit Bias:
Goldin, Claudia and Cecilia Rouse. Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact Of 'Blind' Auditions On Female Musicians, American Economic Review, 2000, v90(4,Sep), 715-741.
Haney-López, Ian. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Duncan, B.L. (1976). Differential perception and attribution of intergroup violence: Testing the lower limits of stereotyping of Blacks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(4), 590-598.
The History of Slavery:
"20. and odd Negroes"; an excerpt from a letter from John Rolfe to Sir Edwin Sandys (1619/1620)
Genealogy Bank: African American Slave Trade: Ships & Records for Genealogy
How many signers of the Declaration of the Independence Owned Slaves
List of U.S. Presidents Who Owned Slaves, Wikipedia.
Slavery and the Constitution
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia; June 26, 1788, Yale Law School, The Avalon Project.
King Cotton:
Mississippi History Now: Cotton in a Global Economy: Mississippi (1800-1860)
American Cotton Production, Exports and Percentages of Cotton Exported, Federal Reserve Register, May 1923
Cotton Gin and Eli Whitney, The History Channel Website
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, What Cotton Has Wrought, The Atlantic, July 30, 2010
Mayor Fernando Wood’s Recommendation of the Secession of New York City, January 6, 1861. TeachingAmericanHistory.org
Andrew Jackson:
Brown, DeNeen L. Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and ‘the master class,’ The Washington Post, May 1, 2017
Francis Scott Key:
Leepson, Marc. Francis Scott Key: A Life. FromWhat So Proudly We Hailed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Lineberry, Cate. The Story Behind the Star Spangled Banner, Smithsonian.com, March 1, 2007.
Wilson, Christopher, Where’s the Debate on Francis Scott Key’s Slave-Holding Legacy?, Smithsonian.com, July 1, 2016
Nathan Bedford Forrest:
Wyath, John Allen. That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Foreword by Albert Castel, xxi.
The Colonial Marines:
McNish Weiss, John. The corps of colonial marines 1814–16: A summary, Immigrants & Minorities, Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, Volume 15, 1996 - Issue 1, 80-90.
The Civil War: Slavery and Secession
DECLARATION OF CAUSES: February 2, 1861 - A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union, Yale Law School, The Avalon Project.
Address of George Williamson, Commissioner from Louisiana to the Texas Secession Convention, civilwarcauses.org
Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States, Digital History.
Florida Secedes from the Union, Museum of Florida History.
Confederate States of America - Georgia Secession, Yale Law School, The Avalon Project.
Alexander H. Stephens' “Corner Stone” Speech, Savannah, Georgia, March 21, 1861, teachingamericanhistory.org
After the Civil War/Reconstruction:
DC Compensated Emancipation Act, United States Senate website.
Homestead Act of 1862, ourdocuments.gov
Newspaper Account of a Meeting between Black Religious Leaders and Union Military Authorities
[New York, N.Y. February 13, 1865]Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule', The African Americans, PBS
Black Leaders During Reconstruction, The History Channel website.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company (1865-1874), blackpast.org
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives
Articles on controversy around teaching slavery in the context of the Civil War:
Weissert, Will. A classroom divided? In the US, Civil War lessons vary state to state, Christian Science Monitor, August 22, 2017.
Brown, Emma. Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was ‘side issue’ to Civil War, The Washington Post, July 5, 2015.
Gold, Jonathan. The Persistence of Myth: The Causes of the Civil War, Teaching Tolerance, May 15, 2017.
Schuessler, Jennifer. A Refusal to Compromise? Civil War Historians Beg to Differ, The New York Times, October 31, 2017.
Lynchings:
Linder, Professor Douglas O. Lynchings by Year and Race, famous-trials.com
Lewis, Danny. This Map Shows Over a Century of Documented Lynchings in the United States, Smithsonian.com, January 24, 2017.
Equal Justice Initiative. Lynching in America: Confronting the History of Racial Terror, eji.org
The Ku Klux Klan:
Janik Rachel. 'Writing History With Lightning': The Birth of a Nation at 100, Time.com, February 8, 2015.
Brown, Deneen L. When Portland banned blacks: Oregon’s shameful history as an ‘all-white’ state, The Washington Post, June 7, 2017.
Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon, The Oregon Enclyclopedia.
Jackson, Charles O. William J. Simmons: A Career in Ku Kluxism, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 4, December, 1966
Brown, Deneen L. The preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan, The Washington Post, April 10, 2018.
Civil War Monuments:
Fennessey, Brian K. Silent Sam and other Civil War monuments rose on race, The News & Observer, November 23, 2017.
The United States' Treatment of Native Americans
Department of State, Office of the Historian. The Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Price, Gregg. Trump Makes Pochahontas Joke about Elizabeth Warren at Navajo Code Talkers Event, Newsweek, November 27, 2017.
Housing Segregation:
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright, 2017.