Erica L Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica L Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity . By Donald Yacovone
Donald Yacovone surveys the historical writing that shaped the minds of young Americans from the early 19th century to the present day, focusing on U.S. history textbooks in particular. Yacovone argues that educational writers and publishers didn't simply present the past in ways that elevated representations of white Americans over others. Rather, he finds that for much of our nation's history, these books, which were the educational building bl…
Derrick R. Spires. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes – migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation – through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery a…
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy
Reviewed by: Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy Erica L. Ball (bio) Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery. By Joseph P. Reidy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 520. Cloth $39.95; paper, $27.95.) Recent decades have seen an explosion of scholarship on the history and legacy of emancipation in the …
Style Politics and Self-Fashioning in Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon Swamp and Other Places
This article explores Southern black women's engagement with beauty culture, fashion, and style politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Mamie Garvin Fields's personal history, Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir, the article interrogates the ways that middle-class and aspiring black women designed, deployed, and enjoyed fashionable clothes and stylish creations. It argues that in addition to serving as part of a lar…
Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory
Reconsidering Gender, Violence, and the State
Response: “Goodbye Miss Lara!” or what’s Slavery got to do with it? Regeneration through Violence in Django Unchained?
There is a moment in Django Unchained where the film abruptly shifts from a recognizable Western into a different register, one neither incompatible nor unfamiliar. Masquerading as a free black val...
To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
African American Lives
611 voices \tFleshing out historical figures \tThe scholarly literature on African American history has grown dramatically since the 1982 publication of Rayford Logan and Michl Winston's Dictionary of American Negro Biography. Since that time, scholars have drawn upon unexam....
Anlagasimdeex: The history of a Gitxsan settlement
The recent discovery (1995) of a petroglyph located within the traditional territories of the Gitxsan people leads me to an investigation of settlement at this site and the relocation of the residents. Information about the settlement at Anlagasimdeex, located on the Babine River three kilometers west of the village of Gisaga'as, is researched in the ethnographic, historical, and archaeological literature. As well, interviews with Gitxsan and non…
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African American Lives
611 voices \tFleshing out historical figures \tThe scholarly literature on African American history has grown dramatically since the 1982 publication of Rayford Logan and Michl Winston's Dictionary of American Negro Biography. Since that time, scholars have drawn upon unexam....
Anlagasimdeex: The history of a Gitxsan settlement
The recent discovery (1995) of a petroglyph located within the traditional territories of the Gitxsan people leads me to an investigation of settlement at this site and the relocation of the residents. Information about the settlement at Anlagasimdeex, located on the Babine River three kilometers west of the village of Gisaga'as, is researched in the ethnographic, historical, and archaeological literature. As well, interviews with Gitxsan and non…
Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
Response: “Goodbye Miss Lara!” or what’s Slavery got to do with it? Regeneration through Violence in Django Unchained?
There is a moment in Django Unchained where the film abruptly shifts from a recognizable Western into a different register, one neither incompatible nor unfamiliar. Masquerading as a free black val...
Reconsidering Gender, Violence, and the State
Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory
Style Politics and Self-Fashioning in Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon Swamp and Other Places
This article explores Southern black women's engagement with beauty culture, fashion, and style politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Mamie Garvin Fields's personal history, Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir, the article interrogates the ways that middle-class and aspiring black women designed, deployed, and enjoyed fashionable clothes and stylish creations. It argues that in addition to serving as part of a lar…
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes – migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation – through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery a…
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy
Reviewed by: Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy Erica L. Ball (bio) Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery. By Joseph P. Reidy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 520. Cloth $39.95; paper, $27.95.) Recent decades have seen an explosion of scholarship on the history and legacy of emancipation in the …
Derrick R. Spires. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity . By Donald Yacovone
Donald Yacovone surveys the historical writing that shaped the minds of young Americans from the early 19th century to the present day, focusing on U.S. history textbooks in particular. Yacovone argues that educational writers and publishers didn't simply present the past in ways that elevated representations of white Americans over others. Rather, he finds that for much of our nation's history, these books, which were the educational building bl…
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