Julia Kirk Blackwelder. Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xi + 183 pp. ISBN 1-58544-244-5, $29.95 (cloth).

Except in parts of Rhode Island and Connecticut, slavery was a peripheral institution, and throughout New England during and after the Revolution there was widespread support to emancipate slaves. Some of the states enacted emancipation laws that theoretically allowed slavery to continue almost indefinitely, and slavery remained on the books as late as 1857 in New Hampshire. Although the laws gradually abolished slavery and although the pace was painfully slow for those still enslaved, the predominant dynamic for New England society was the sudden emergence of a substantial, free African American population. What developed was an even more virulent racism and a Jim Crow environment. The last part of the chapter is an analysis of where African Americans lived as of 1830 and the connection between racism and concentrations of people of African descent.

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“The Dusky Doughboys”: Interaction between African American Soldiers and the Population of Northern Ireland during the Second World War

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875812001764 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 1131-1154 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

SIMON TOPPING

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

Jim Crow ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Northern Irish ◽

Black Soldiers ◽

American Military ◽

The People ◽

Second World

This article will examine the ways in which the people of Northern Ireland and African American troops stationed there during the Second World War reacted to each other. It will also consider the effect of institutional racism in the American military on this relationship, concluding that, for the most part, the population welcomed black soldiers and refused to endorse American racial attitudes or enforce Jim Crow segregation. This piece argues that, bearing in mind the latent racism of the time, the response of the Northern Irish to African Americans was essentially colour-blind, and this was true in both the Protestant and Catholic communities.

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Black “Crime,” Public Hysteria, and the Cinema of Containment: Black Cinema Aesthetics from Willie Dynamite to The Interrupters and a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert

Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures ◽

10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202101003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Amy Abugo Ongiri

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Visual Culture ◽

Jim Crow ◽

Mass Incarceration ◽

Current Situation ◽

Black Cinema ◽

Black Subjectivity ◽

Political Organizing

This essay will explore the ways in which African American visual culture has attempted to negotiate criminalization and the current situation of what Richard Iton rightfully characterizes as “hyperincarceration.” It will explore the ways in which contemporary African American visual culture is engaged in negotiating between the literal material realities and consequences of mass incarceration and aesthetic constructions of violence. While mass incarceration is increasingly becoming understood as “the New Jim Crow” for African American political organizing, Black criminality has become the key lens through which questions of masculinity, class exclusion, gender, and selfhood get negotiated in African American visual culture. This essay will argue that the “subtext of ongoing Black captivity” is the pretext for much of what drives Black action genres and African American representation in general as a key signifier of a racialized identity and as an indicator of a Black subjectivity fraught with complexities of non-belonging.

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