Ronald J Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald J Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Voices of Defiance
Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement
Global Garveyism
Garveyism was carried across the globe following the First World War, generating the largest mass movement in the history of the African diaspora. Throughout Africa and Europe, the Americas and Oceania, the ideas and praxis of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers sparked anti-colonial and anti-racist mobilizations, both within Garvey’s organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and without. This volume—the first edite…
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor. Colored Travelers
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War fills a void in the literature on slavery, citizenship, and Jim Crow-segregation practices in the United States before the Civil War, demonstrating how “free people of color negotiated white hostility in public space” while traveling (2). The enforcement of these early segregated traveling policies to restrict pioneering colored travelers ins…
William E. O’Brien. Landscapes of Exclusion
With Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, William E. O’Brien has filled a void in the literature involving New Deal parks and recreation planning and regarding Jim Crow laws, practices, and restrictions on public lands in the American South. In this first detailed account of such practices, O’Brien illustrates how these restrictions denied southern African Americans entrance on federal and state properties that…
Idlewild
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country's foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and hosting the era's premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resul…
Methodological Considerations for Micro Studies of Unia Divisions
This article explores various analytical and interpretive tools and historical methods and techniques of historical research and writing for conducting research on local Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). The article suggests a new framework that could be used to ably describe, interpret, and evaluate a micro-level analysis of UNIA-ACL divisions of the 1920s and 30s. In an effort t…
Garveyism in Idlewild, 1927 to 1936
Although the scholarship on Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is well documented, there is a continuing need to learn more information about Garveyism in the United States. Because the current literature on the UNIA-ACL at the local level is rather scant, this article explores the origins and development of Garveyism in the Idlewild community to determine the extent to which other …
African and Latina/o Experiences
Narrating Acts of Resistance
The scholarship analyzing the political career of Robert F. Williams has either misinterpreted him, minimized his effect, or only provided limited information about his legacy as a Black revolutionary nationalist leader. In Tyson's biography, for instance, the treatment on Williams in Lake County, Michigan, raises much skepticism when he writes that Williams spent the last 15 years of his life in a quiet place “where he and his family could recov…
Come Colour My Rainbow
Beyond bitches, niggers, and ho’s
Coleman Young
(1990). Coleman Young: The Man His Times. The Black Scholar: Vol. 21, Black Social Issues, pp. 40-42
Coleman Young
(1990). Coleman Young: The Man His Times. The Black Scholar: Vol. 21, Black Social Issues, pp. 40-42
Beyond bitches, niggers, and ho’s
Come Colour My Rainbow
Narrating Acts of Resistance
The scholarship analyzing the political career of Robert F. Williams has either misinterpreted him, minimized his effect, or only provided limited information about his legacy as a Black revolutionary nationalist leader. In Tyson's biography, for instance, the treatment on Williams in Lake County, Michigan, raises much skepticism when he writes that Williams spent the last 15 years of his life in a quiet place “where he and his family could recov…
Garveyism in Idlewild, 1927 to 1936
Although the scholarship on Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is well documented, there is a continuing need to learn more information about Garveyism in the United States. Because the current literature on the UNIA-ACL at the local level is rather scant, this article explores the origins and development of Garveyism in the Idlewild community to determine the extent to which other …
African and Latina/o Experiences
Methodological Considerations for Micro Studies of Unia Divisions
This article explores various analytical and interpretive tools and historical methods and techniques of historical research and writing for conducting research on local Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). The article suggests a new framework that could be used to ably describe, interpret, and evaluate a micro-level analysis of UNIA-ACL divisions of the 1920s and 30s. In an effort t…
Idlewild
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country's foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and hosting the era's premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resul…
William E. O’Brien. Landscapes of Exclusion
With Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, William E. O’Brien has filled a void in the literature involving New Deal parks and recreation planning and regarding Jim Crow laws, practices, and restrictions on public lands in the American South. In this first detailed account of such practices, O’Brien illustrates how these restrictions denied southern African Americans entrance on federal and state properties that…
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor. Colored Travelers
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War fills a void in the literature on slavery, citizenship, and Jim Crow-segregation practices in the United States before the Civil War, demonstrating how “free people of color negotiated white hostility in public space” while traveling (2). The enforcement of these early segregated traveling policies to restrict pioneering colored travelers ins…
Global Garveyism
Garveyism was carried across the globe following the First World War, generating the largest mass movement in the history of the African diaspora. Throughout Africa and Europe, the Americas and Oceania, the ideas and praxis of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers sparked anti-colonial and anti-racist mobilizations, both within Garvey’s organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and without. This volume—the first edite…
Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement
Voices of Defiance
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)