Sarah-Jane Mathieu
Biographic Data
| ID | 538685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah-Jane Mathieu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah-Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathieu |
| SIGNATURE | MATHIEU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Points North
When Robin Winks’ Blacks in Canada hit stores fifty years ago, critics heaped scorn on the idea of there being such a thing as African Canadian history – never mind a history worth telling. In the decades since, African Canadian history has blossomed from a topic that seemed the work of a curious few, to a field that has secured some of the highest awards and praise in Canadian history. This article explores the slippery uses of African American …
From Near and Far
The Fate of African Americans Rests with the Ottomans
Between 1880 and 1920, African Americans and Armenians became people on the run, the targets of racial persecution by state-sanctioned merchants of terror. Black intellectual-activists saw in the massacre of Armenians powerful parallels with the escalation of lynching and other forms of domestic terrorism in the United States. This article examines how African Americans galvanized to the defense of embattled Armenians, warning that the “Armenian …
They Call Me George
L’Union Fait La Force
Though the Great War is imagined and discussed as a European conflagration, an epic showdown between white Europeans, the simple fact remains that from the first, European battlefields mirrored the multiracial makeup of the empires doing battle. The Allies depended most heavily on their black soldiers, both as combatants and as labourers, even if it meant pressing these recruits into service at the end of a gun. And when the United States finally…
Great Expectations
The African American Great Migration Reconsidered
The African American Great Migration Reconsidered Get access Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu assistant professor in the history department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 23, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 19–23, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/23.4.19 Published: 01 October 2009
North of the Colour Line
This paper analyses the evolution of Jim Crow employment patterns in the Canadian railway industry from the 1880s to World War I. It presents race as acentral organizing principle in employers' decision to hire black railwaymen for their sleeping and dining car departments. Canadian railway managers actively sought out African American, West Indian, and African Canadian labour, believing that they constituted an easily manipulated group of worker…
North of the Colour Line
This paper analyses the evolution of Jim Crow employment patterns in the Canadian railway industry from the 1880s to World War I. It presents race as acentral organizing principle in employers' decision to hire black railwaymen for their sleeping and dining car departments. Canadian railway managers actively sought out African American, West Indian, and African Canadian labour, believing that they constituted an easily manipulated group of worker…
The Fate of African Americans Rests with the Ottomans
Between 1880 and 1920, African Americans and Armenians became people on the run, the targets of racial persecution by state-sanctioned merchants of terror. Black intellectual-activists saw in the massacre of Armenians powerful parallels with the escalation of lynching and other forms of domestic terrorism in the United States. This article examines how African Americans galvanized to the defense of embattled Armenians, warning that the “Armenian …
L’Union Fait La Force
Though the Great War is imagined and discussed as a European conflagration, an epic showdown between white Europeans, the simple fact remains that from the first, European battlefields mirrored the multiracial makeup of the empires doing battle. The Allies depended most heavily on their black soldiers, both as combatants and as labourers, even if it meant pressing these recruits into service at the end of a gun. And when the United States finally…
North of the Colour Line
This paper analyses the evolution of Jim Crow employment patterns in the Canadian railway industry from the 1880s to World War I. It presents race as acentral organizing principle in employers' decision to hire black railwaymen for their sleeping and dining car departments. Canadian railway managers actively sought out African American, West Indian, and African Canadian labour, believing that they constituted an easily manipulated group of worker…
The African American Great Migration Reconsidered
The African American Great Migration Reconsidered Get access Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu assistant professor in the history department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 23, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 19–23, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/23.4.19 Published: 01 October 2009
Great Expectations
L’Union Fait La Force
Though the Great War is imagined and discussed as a European conflagration, an epic showdown between white Europeans, the simple fact remains that from the first, European battlefields mirrored the multiracial makeup of the empires doing battle. The Allies depended most heavily on their black soldiers, both as combatants and as labourers, even if it meant pressing these recruits into service at the end of a gun. And when the United States finally…
They Call Me George
From Near and Far
The Fate of African Americans Rests with the Ottomans
Between 1880 and 1920, African Americans and Armenians became people on the run, the targets of racial persecution by state-sanctioned merchants of terror. Black intellectual-activists saw in the massacre of Armenians powerful parallels with the escalation of lynching and other forms of domestic terrorism in the United States. This article examines how African Americans galvanized to the defense of embattled Armenians, warning that the “Armenian …
Points North
When Robin Winks’ Blacks in Canada hit stores fifty years ago, critics heaped scorn on the idea of there being such a thing as African Canadian history – never mind a history worth telling. In the decades since, African Canadian history has blossomed from a topic that seemed the work of a curious few, to a field that has secured some of the highest awards and praise in Canadian history. This article explores the slippery uses of African American …
History (7 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Art history (2 works)