Jill Watts

Biographic Data

ID3629829
NAMEJill Watts
GIVEN NAMESJill
FAMILY NAMEWatts
SIGNATUREWATTS J
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, San Marcos
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX1

  • Cedric J. Robinson, Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

    Jill WattsARTICLEThe Journal of African American…2009

  • Mae West

    Leslie Fishbein, Jill WattsARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Jill Watts's task in Mae West: An Icon in Black and White is a daunting one, namely, to write a biography of an avowed trickster. Watts meets that challenge with a meticulously researched book that is as lively as its self-inventing subject. Mae West was a woman who became a sexual icon yet failed to fulfill the dominant culture's prevailing notions of acceptable female sexuality throughout her long and tumultuous life. Never conventionally beaut…

  • Our Secret Century (CD-ROM). Vol. 1

    Jill Watts, Rick PrelingerARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Our Secret Century (CD-ROM). By Rick Prelinger. Vol. 1: The Rainbow Is Yours. Vol. 2: Capitalist Realism. Vol. 3: The Behavior Offensive. Vol. 4: Menace and Jeopardy. Vol. 5: Teenage Transgression. Vol. 6: The Uncharted Landscape. New York: Voyager, 1996. Vols. 1 and 2: 2 CD-ROMs. $29.95, ISBN 1-55940-663-1. Vols. 3 and 4: 2 CD-ROMs. $29.95 Get access Jill Watts Jill Watts California State University San Marcos, California Search …

  • God, Harlem U.S.A

    Ben Nefzger, Jill WattsARTICLESociology of Religion1994

    Ben Nefzger; God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story, by Jill Watts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, xvi + 249 pp. $30, Sociology of Re

  • Righteous Discontent

    Jill WattsREVIEWJournal of American History1994

  • God, Harlem U.S.A

    Ralph E Luker, Jill WattsARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story. By Jill Watts. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xvi + 249 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-520-07455-6.) Get access Ralph E. Luker Ralph E. Luker Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 318–319, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079815 Published: 01 June 1993

  • God, Harlem, U.S.A

    H A Baer, Jill WattsARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1993

    How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply Harlem U.S.A.? Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing religious leaders, Father Divine. Starting as an itinerant preacher, Father Divine built an unprecedented movement that by the 1930s had attracted followers across the n…

  • Raising Up a Prophet

    Jill Watts, Sudarshan KapurARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Raising Up a Prophet: The African-American Encounter with Gandhi. By Sudarshan Kapur. (Boston: Beacon, 1992. xii + 222 pp. Cloth, $28.00, ISBN 0-8070-0914-8. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-8070-0915-6.) Get access Jill Watts Jill Watts California State University, San Marcos, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 310–311, https:/…

  • A Father Divine for the New Age

    Open AccessHarvard Sitkoff, Jill WattsARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1993

    EVER SINCE HE FIRST MADE HEADLINES, RUMORS CIRCULATED ABOUT THE black man who claimed to be God, fed the hungry, and, possessing strange powers over his fanatical yet gullible cult followers, robbed the innocent of their money and chastity. Supposedly, when the post office in the 1930s received a letter addressed to GOD, HARLEM U.S.A. they delivered it promptly to Father Divine. Hence, Jill Watts's effort to place George Baker, Jr., who would bec…

  • This Was the Way

    Jill WattsARTICLEPacific Historical Review1991Cited by: 1References: 2

    Research Article| November 01 1991 "This Was the Way": Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement in Los Angeles during the Great Depression Jill Watts Jill Watts Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1991) 60 (4): 475–496. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639873 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…