Brandon R Byrd
Biographic Data
| ID | 1178685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon R Byrd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon R |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrd |
| SIGNATURE | BYRD B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation
This introductory essay offers a historical and historiographical framework for this special issue. Assessing parallel trends in the fields of US and African American History, it contends that scholars can and should seek out the nexus of the former’s “transnational turn” and what Robin D. G. Kelley has called the “global vision” of the latter. It explains how the articles of this special issue contribute to that goal through their collective ass…
Ebenezer Bassett and Frederick Douglass
Scholarship in the field of Black history by scholars such as Carol Anderson, Gerald Horne, and Brenda Gayle Plummer has spurred the remaking of the study of U.S. foreign relations. In the late twentieth century, Plummer was at the forefront of this change; her scholarship drew needed attention to how the field of diplomatic history was traditionally stifled by its preoccupation with presidents, diplomats, and other white male agents of the U.S. …
Writing the World at the End of Empire
The mythmaking began in 1808. Soon after the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed an Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson published the first history of the movement that had led to the ban on the trafficking of enslaved Africans within the British Empire. It was a testament to British benevolence. A tribute to Christian virtue. “The abolition of the Slave-trade took its rise, not from persons, who…
Haiti
Haiti had a singular importance in the life of Frederick Douglass. Like countless other African Americans, Douglass upheld the Haitian Revolution as an unprecedented blow for human rights. He appreciated the symbolism of Haiti, a self-identified Black nation-state. As an abolitionist, Douglass used his platform to call on the United States to grant diplomatic recognition to Haiti and opine on the proposed mass emigration of African Americans from…
The Black Republic
The Black Republic explores the critical but overlooked place of Haiti in black thought in the post-Civil War era. Following emancipation, African American leaders considered Haiti a singular example of black self-governance whose fate was inextricably linked to that of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination
The Rise of African American Intellectual History
This essay makes a decisive turn to the history and historiography of African American intellectual history, a field of study long relegated to the margins of the general field of US intellectual history. Its principal intention is to reflect on the origins, growth, and recent institutionalization of African American intellectual history while showing the relationship between those developments and broader trends within the US and, at times, Euro…
African Americans, Haiti, and the Incessant Common Wind
The 2018 publication of Julius S. Scott's The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution inspired a renewed focus on the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution. Here, six scholars of the Atlantic World and the Age of Revolutions consider the historiographical implications of The Common Wind and remind us how the Haitian upheaval belongs at the very center of the ripples of modernity that spread across the globe fro…
The Abyssinian Prince
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Race, Reality, and Realpolitik
Reviewed by: Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation by Jeffrey Sommers Brandon Byrd Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation. By Jeffrey Sommers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-4985-0914-5. 158 pp. $80 hardcover. January 12, 2015. The date marked the fifth anniversary of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck just outside Port-au…
The Transnational Work of Moral Elevation
The Transnational Work of Moral ElevationAfrican American Women and the Reformation of Haiti, 1874–1950 Brandon R. Byrd (bio) In the past several decades, the public lives of black women in the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century United States have garnered significant scholarly attention. Works focusing on their participation in women’s suffrage groups, religious institutions, and political organizations such as the National Association of …
To Start Something to Help These People
In 1915, United States marines arrived in Haiti. Their landing signaled the beginning of an occupation that would cripple Haiti long after it ended in 1934. Scholars have offered compelling insights into African American opposition to the erosion of Haitian sovereignty. But this scholarship has prioritized the activism of Black men and male-dominated institutions while deemphasizing the complex reaction of Black women to the occupation. This arti…
Black Republicans, Black Republic
This article examines the ways in which some African-Americans assigned great importance to Haiti from 1863 to 1877. At the outset of Reconstruction, a diverse cast of African-Americans derived inspiration from contemporary and historical signs of Haitian progress. But by the end of the era, middle-class and elite African-Americans, particularly urban northerners, demanded the reform of Haitian life and culture. This shift illustrates not only gr…
Black Republicans, Black Republic
This article examines the ways in which some African-Americans assigned great importance to Haiti from 1863 to 1877. At the outset of Reconstruction, a diverse cast of African-Americans derived inspiration from contemporary and historical signs of Haitian progress. But by the end of the era, middle-class and elite African-Americans, particularly urban northerners, demanded the reform of Haitian life and culture. This shift illustrates not only gr…
The Rise of African American Intellectual History
This essay makes a decisive turn to the history and historiography of African American intellectual history, a field of study long relegated to the margins of the general field of US intellectual history. Its principal intention is to reflect on the origins, growth, and recent institutionalization of African American intellectual history while showing the relationship between those developments and broader trends within the US and, at times, Euro…
To Start Something to Help These People
In 1915, United States marines arrived in Haiti. Their landing signaled the beginning of an occupation that would cripple Haiti long after it ended in 1934. Scholars have offered compelling insights into African American opposition to the erosion of Haitian sovereignty. But this scholarship has prioritized the activism of Black men and male-dominated institutions while deemphasizing the complex reaction of Black women to the occupation. This arti…
The Abyssinian Prince
Black Republicans, Black Republic
This article examines the ways in which some African-Americans assigned great importance to Haiti from 1863 to 1877. At the outset of Reconstruction, a diverse cast of African-Americans derived inspiration from contemporary and historical signs of Haitian progress. But by the end of the era, middle-class and elite African-Americans, particularly urban northerners, demanded the reform of Haitian life and culture. This shift illustrates not only gr…
The Transnational Work of Moral Elevation
The Transnational Work of Moral ElevationAfrican American Women and the Reformation of Haiti, 1874–1950 Brandon R. Byrd (bio) In the past several decades, the public lives of black women in the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century United States have garnered significant scholarly attention. Works focusing on their participation in women’s suffrage groups, religious institutions, and political organizations such as the National Association of …
To Start Something to Help These People
In 1915, United States marines arrived in Haiti. Their landing signaled the beginning of an occupation that would cripple Haiti long after it ended in 1934. Scholars have offered compelling insights into African American opposition to the erosion of Haitian sovereignty. But this scholarship has prioritized the activism of Black men and male-dominated institutions while deemphasizing the complex reaction of Black women to the occupation. This arti…
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Race, Reality, and Realpolitik
Reviewed by: Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation by Jeffrey Sommers Brandon Byrd Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation. By Jeffrey Sommers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-4985-0914-5. 158 pp. $80 hardcover. January 12, 2015. The date marked the fifth anniversary of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck just outside Port-au…
The Abyssinian Prince
The Black Republic
The Black Republic explores the critical but overlooked place of Haiti in black thought in the post-Civil War era. Following emancipation, African American leaders considered Haiti a singular example of black self-governance whose fate was inextricably linked to that of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination
The Rise of African American Intellectual History
This essay makes a decisive turn to the history and historiography of African American intellectual history, a field of study long relegated to the margins of the general field of US intellectual history. Its principal intention is to reflect on the origins, growth, and recent institutionalization of African American intellectual history while showing the relationship between those developments and broader trends within the US and, at times, Euro…
African Americans, Haiti, and the Incessant Common Wind
The 2018 publication of Julius S. Scott's The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution inspired a renewed focus on the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution. Here, six scholars of the Atlantic World and the Age of Revolutions consider the historiographical implications of The Common Wind and remind us how the Haitian upheaval belongs at the very center of the ripples of modernity that spread across the globe fro…
Haiti
Haiti had a singular importance in the life of Frederick Douglass. Like countless other African Americans, Douglass upheld the Haitian Revolution as an unprecedented blow for human rights. He appreciated the symbolism of Haiti, a self-identified Black nation-state. As an abolitionist, Douglass used his platform to call on the United States to grant diplomatic recognition to Haiti and opine on the proposed mass emigration of African Americans from…
Ebenezer Bassett and Frederick Douglass
Scholarship in the field of Black history by scholars such as Carol Anderson, Gerald Horne, and Brenda Gayle Plummer has spurred the remaking of the study of U.S. foreign relations. In the late twentieth century, Plummer was at the forefront of this change; her scholarship drew needed attention to how the field of diplomatic history was traditionally stifled by its preoccupation with presidents, diplomats, and other white male agents of the U.S. …
Writing the World at the End of Empire
The mythmaking began in 1808. Soon after the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed an Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson published the first history of the movement that had led to the ban on the trafficking of enslaved Africans within the British Empire. It was a testament to British benevolence. A tribute to Christian virtue. “The abolition of the Slave-trade took its rise, not from persons, who…
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation
This introductory essay offers a historical and historiographical framework for this special issue. Assessing parallel trends in the fields of US and African American History, it contends that scholars can and should seek out the nexus of the former’s “transnational turn” and what Robin D. G. Kelley has called the “global vision” of the latter. It explains how the articles of this special issue contribute to that goal through their collective ass…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works)