I\u2019m happy to announce the publication of Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History, edited by yours truly and Alison M. Parker , the latest entry in our Gender and Race in American History series at the University of Rochester Press. (By the way, we welcome inquiries from prospective authors!). The volume features articles by Meredith Clark-Wiltz, Kendra Taira Field, Rashauna Johnson, Vivian M. May, Michele Mitchell, and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Quanquin. The goal of the collection is to apply the theory of intersectionality to research in American history, and topics include interracial neighborhoods in antebellum New Orleans, the slavery-marriage comparison among anti-slavery and women\u2019s rights activists, African Americans in Indian territory, the NAACP\u2019s struggle for integrated juries, the intersectional scholarship of Anna Julia Cooper, and idleness and sexuality in the Great Depression.<\/p>\n
Readers of this blog will be especially interested in two essays: Michelle Kuhl\u2019s \u201cCountable Bodies, Uncountable Crimes: Sexual Assault and the Antilynching Movement,\u201d which shows how the martydom rhetoric used by African American ministers in the anti-lynching movement helped marginalize the sexual assault of black women as a political issue, and Deborah Gray White\u2019s \u201cWhat Women Want: The Paradoxes of Postmodernity as seen through Promise Keeper and Million Man March Women,\u201d which examines similarities between two 1990s social\/religious movements: conservative evangelical women in the Promise Keepers and African American women who supported the Million Man march. <\/p>\n