Earl Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Earl Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Earl |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5035-3339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Challenges faced by older adults in Namibia and strategies to improve their health and well-being
Older people play a pivotal role not only in Namibian society but globally, with many households relying on their contributions for survival ranging from caring for orphaned grandchildren to providing essential income support. Despite this, older adults are frequently excluded from development programmes and face discrimination in accessing essential services, particularly health care. This study employed a desk review of empirical data sources, …
Towards urban place-based resilience modeling: Mixed methods for a flood resilience assessment index
Large-scale socioeconomic vulnerability models commonly used in flood hazard assessments grapple with data limitations and struggle to fully capture diversity in vulnerability and resilience stemming from America’s sociopolitical history. In response, we developed a prototype for a place-based Flood Resilience Assessment Index (FRAI) using tract-level geographies that illustrates human-centric frameworks for quantifying flood resilience in the U.…
The evolution of race and place in geographies of risk and resilience
Progress in Environmental Geography advances equity and justice at the intersections of people and place. Natural disasters represent a granular lens into this space and highlight opportunities to incorporate social landscapes with their physical geographies toward sustained systemic progress. More specifically, disproportionate geographies of flood risk and resilience exemplify cyclical power dynamics, exploitation, and oppression that have shap…
Toward a 2.0 Compact for the Liberal Arts
New demands on learning coupled with new concerns about a changing world have resulted in a new focus on what constitutes a durable learning experience in a liberal arts setting. While the noise of a crisis in the liberal arts can be distracting at times, what we learn is that different types of schools continue to answer the question of why the liberal arts remain an effective educational option. This essay argues that they are only beginning to…
History and the Common Good: Scholarship in the Public Eye
It is an honor to be standing before you this evening. From my childhood in Virginia to my college and graduate years in Minnesota to teaching and administrative roles at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Emory University, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, I have marveled at the grace, support, encouragement, and colleagueship I have encountered. Along the way I found friends and mentors, coauthors and collabo…
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society
Race, Power, Multipositionality: The Instance of Black Schoolteachers
To understand the relationship between social position and social change, this essay examines the multipositionality of the black schoolteacher, and through it the relationship between race and power. The autobiographical writings of black teachers who worked in the American South between 1890 and 1950 uniquely reveal the complex relationship between power and culture in this phase of American history, and illustrate the ways in which subordinate…
The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present
From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relative
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans
PREFACE 1. The First Passage: 1502-1617 2. Strange New Land:1617-1776 3. Revolutionary Citizens:1776-1804 4. Let My People Go:1804-1860 5. Breaking The Chains:1860-1880 6. Though Justice Sleeps:1880-1900 7. A Chance To Make Good: 1900-1929 8. A New Deal?: 1929-1945 9. We Changed The World:1945-1970 10. Into The Fire:1970 to Present CHRONOLOGY FURTHER READING INDEX
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
The role of African Americans in the design of their own lives has been a constant theme in African American history over the last twenty-five years. Authors in this tradition have attempted to show how people worked to manufacture full lives despite restrictions of race, status, gender, and class. This approach has dwelled on success and failure, individual and collective. Every so often a book in this tradition appears that covers a familiar st…
Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation-and forced the couple into an annulment trial. A compelling read.-Boston Globe This is a great story...Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone tell it very well.-Chicago T…
A Modern Cinderella: Race, Sexuality, and Social Class in the Rhinelander Case
On November 13, 1924, the first public announcements of white scion Leonard Kip Rhinelander's secret marriage to a working-class “colored” woman, Alice Jones, exploded across the front pages of New York newspapers. Although Rhinelander, a wealthy white socialite, ignored family orders and stayed with his wife through the first week or so of the scandal, few were surprised when he ultimately left her and filed an annulment suit. While New York did…
La Constitution des Américains Africains Comme Minorité
Si j' a i tant écrit sur ma condition de Noir, ce n'est pas que je considérais tenir là mon seul et unique sujet, mais parce qu'il me fallait déverrouiller cette porte avant de pouvoir espérer écrire sur un autre thème. Je ne pense pas que l'on puisse véritablement débattre du problème noir aux États-Unis sans avoir à l'esprit son contexte ; par contexte, j'entends l'histoire, les traditions, les coutumes, les valeurs morales et les préoccupation…
Connecting Memory, Self, and the Power of Place in African American Urban History
Peer Reviewed
The Fallacy of Positivist Reasoning
To Turn as on a Pivot: Writing African Americans into a History of Overlapping Diasporas
Journal Article To Turn as on a Pivot: Writing African Americans into a History of Overlapping Diasporas Get access Earl Lewis Earl Lewis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 100, Issue 3, June 1995, Pages 765–787, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/100.3.765 Published: 01 June 1995
African American Urban History: Framing a New Perspective
Until the mid-1960s, slavery, emancipation, and black life in the rural South dominated scholarship on the African American experience. A small coterie of black scholars and their white allies combated the prevailing stereotype that blacks had little or no history worthy of recording or recalling. They argued that the black experience was an integral part of the American experience and thus deserved treatment as part of the larger fabric of Ameri…
Invoking concepts, problematizing identities: The life of Charles N. Hunter and the implications for the study of gender and labor
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEarl LewisThe author would like to thank Liz Faue, Alice Kessler-Harris, Robin Kelley, and Joe W. Trotter, Jr. for their helpful comments and suggestions
In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia
Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace. In Their Own Interests presents a cross-section of southern urban blacks--the power-brokers and lesser-knowns, Garvey followers and commun…
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
Journal Article The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction. By Edward L, Ayers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii + 572 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-503756-1.) Get access Earl Lewis Earl Lewis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 697, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079956 Published: 01 S…
The Social Geography of the Multipositional Self: McFeely's Frederick Douglass
Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32: Blacks in the New World and the Working Class in American History
In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentiety-Century Norfolk, Virginia
In their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia
Journal Article In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia. By Earl Lewis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 270 pp. $34.95.) Get access In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia. By Lewis Earl. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 270 pp. $34.95.) Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College Search for other works by …
La Constitution des Américains Africains Comme Minorité
Si j' a i tant écrit sur ma condition de Noir, ce n'est pas que je considérais tenir là mon seul et unique sujet, mais parce qu'il me fallait déverrouiller cette porte avant de pouvoir espérer écrire sur un autre thème. Je ne pense pas que l'on puisse véritablement débattre du problème noir aux États-Unis sans avoir à l'esprit son contexte ; par contexte, j'entends l'histoire, les traditions, les coutumes, les valeurs morales et les préoccupation…
Invoking concepts, problematizing identities: The life of Charles N. Hunter and the implications for the study of gender and labor
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEarl LewisThe author would like to thank Liz Faue, Alice Kessler-Harris, Robin Kelley, and Joe W. Trotter, Jr. for their helpful comments and suggestions
Afro-American Adaptive Strategies: The Visiting Habits of Kith and Kin Among Black Norfolkians During the First Great Migration
This article contends that contrary to what was thought at the time, the migration of large numbers of Afro-Americans to urban areas during the First Great Migration (1900- 192 0) failed in many instances to cause the severing of affective bonds of kinship and friendship. Instead, blacks devised a number of adaptive strategies that enabled them to maintain contact with those deemed important. The present findings also reveal the complex nature of…
The evolution of race and place in geographies of risk and resilience
Progress in Environmental Geography advances equity and justice at the intersections of people and place. Natural disasters represent a granular lens into this space and highlight opportunities to incorporate social landscapes with their physical geographies toward sustained systemic progress. More specifically, disproportionate geographies of flood risk and resilience exemplify cyclical power dynamics, exploitation, and oppression that have shap…
A Modern Cinderella: Race, Sexuality, and Social Class in the Rhinelander Case
On November 13, 1924, the first public announcements of white scion Leonard Kip Rhinelander's secret marriage to a working-class “colored” woman, Alice Jones, exploded across the front pages of New York newspapers. Although Rhinelander, a wealthy white socialite, ignored family orders and stayed with his wife through the first week or so of the scandal, few were surprised when he ultimately left her and filed an annulment suit. While New York did…
Connecting Memory, Self, and the Power of Place in African American Urban History
Peer Reviewed
African American Urban History: Framing a New Perspective
Until the mid-1960s, slavery, emancipation, and black life in the rural South dominated scholarship on the African American experience. A small coterie of black scholars and their white allies combated the prevailing stereotype that blacks had little or no history worthy of recording or recalling. They argued that the black experience was an integral part of the American experience and thus deserved treatment as part of the larger fabric of Ameri…
Afro-American Adaptive Strategies: The Visiting Habits of Kith and Kin Among Black Norfolkians During the First Great Migration
This article contends that contrary to what was thought at the time, the migration of large numbers of Afro-Americans to urban areas during the First Great Migration (1900- 192 0) failed in many instances to cause the severing of affective bonds of kinship and friendship. Instead, blacks devised a number of adaptive strategies that enabled them to maintain contact with those deemed important. The present findings also reveal the complex nature of…
Entering the Industrial Order
Media and Public History: Buba, Voices from a Steeltown Riggs, Ethnic Notions
(1988). Media and Public History: Buba, Voices from a Steeltown Riggs, Ethnic Notions. The Oral History Review: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 128-130.
Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore
More Than Race Relations: A. Philip Randolph and the African American Search for Empowerment
The Beginnings of a Renaissance: Black Migration, the Industrial Order, and the Search for Power
Peer Reviewed
The Social Geography of the Multipositional Self: McFeely's Frederick Douglass
Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32: Blacks in the New World and the Working Class in American History
In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentiety-Century Norfolk, Virginia
In their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia
Journal Article In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia. By Earl Lewis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 270 pp. $34.95.) Get access In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia. By Lewis Earl. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 270 pp. $34.95.) Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College Search for other works by …
Race as Commodity: Hill and Thomas as Consumer Products
African American Urban History: Framing a New Perspective
Until the mid-1960s, slavery, emancipation, and black life in the rural South dominated scholarship on the African American experience. A small coterie of black scholars and their white allies combated the prevailing stereotype that blacks had little or no history worthy of recording or recalling. They argued that the black experience was an integral part of the American experience and thus deserved treatment as part of the larger fabric of Ameri…
Invoking concepts, problematizing identities: The life of Charles N. Hunter and the implications for the study of gender and labor
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEarl LewisThe author would like to thank Liz Faue, Alice Kessler-Harris, Robin Kelley, and Joe W. Trotter, Jr. for their helpful comments and suggestions
In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia
Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace. In Their Own Interests presents a cross-section of southern urban blacks--the power-brokers and lesser-knowns, Garvey followers and commun…
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
Journal Article The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction. By Edward L, Ayers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii + 572 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-503756-1.) Get access Earl Lewis Earl Lewis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 697, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079956 Published: 01 S…
Connecting Memory, Self, and the Power of Place in African American Urban History
Peer Reviewed
The Fallacy of Positivist Reasoning
To Turn as on a Pivot: Writing African Americans into a History of Overlapping Diasporas
Journal Article To Turn as on a Pivot: Writing African Americans into a History of Overlapping Diasporas Get access Earl Lewis Earl Lewis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 100, Issue 3, June 1995, Pages 765–787, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/100.3.765 Published: 01 June 1995
A Modern Cinderella: Race, Sexuality, and Social Class in the Rhinelander Case
On November 13, 1924, the first public announcements of white scion Leonard Kip Rhinelander's secret marriage to a working-class “colored” woman, Alice Jones, exploded across the front pages of New York newspapers. Although Rhinelander, a wealthy white socialite, ignored family orders and stayed with his wife through the first week or so of the scandal, few were surprised when he ultimately left her and filed an annulment suit. While New York did…
La Constitution des Américains Africains Comme Minorité
Si j' a i tant écrit sur ma condition de Noir, ce n'est pas que je considérais tenir là mon seul et unique sujet, mais parce qu'il me fallait déverrouiller cette porte avant de pouvoir espérer écrire sur un autre thème. Je ne pense pas que l'on puisse véritablement débattre du problème noir aux États-Unis sans avoir à l'esprit son contexte ; par contexte, j'entends l'histoire, les traditions, les coutumes, les valeurs morales et les préoccupation…
Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation-and forced the couple into an annulment trial. A compelling read.-Boston Globe This is a great story...Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone tell it very well.-Chicago T…
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans
PREFACE 1. The First Passage: 1502-1617 2. Strange New Land:1617-1776 3. Revolutionary Citizens:1776-1804 4. Let My People Go:1804-1860 5. Breaking The Chains:1860-1880 6. Though Justice Sleeps:1880-1900 7. A Chance To Make Good: 1900-1929 8. A New Deal?: 1929-1945 9. We Changed The World:1945-1970 10. Into The Fire:1970 to Present CHRONOLOGY FURTHER READING INDEX
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
The role of African Americans in the design of their own lives has been a constant theme in African American history over the last twenty-five years. Authors in this tradition have attempted to show how people worked to manufacture full lives despite restrictions of race, status, gender, and class. This approach has dwelled on success and failure, individual and collective. Every so often a book in this tradition appears that covers a familiar st…
The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present
From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relative
Race, Power, Multipositionality: The Instance of Black Schoolteachers
To understand the relationship between social position and social change, this essay examines the multipositionality of the black schoolteacher, and through it the relationship between race and power. The autobiographical writings of black teachers who worked in the American South between 1890 and 1950 uniquely reveal the complex relationship between power and culture in this phase of American history, and illustrate the ways in which subordinate…
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