Christopher B Strain
Biographic Data
| ID | 5883558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher B Strain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher B |
| FAMILY NAME | Strain |
| SIGNATURE | STRAIN C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Akinyele Omowale Umoja. We Will Shoot Back
Journal Article Akinyele Omowale Umoja. We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. Get access Akinyele Omowale Umoja. We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. New York: New York University Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 339. $40.00. Christopher Strain Christopher Strain Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
The Black Scholar Forum on Marable's Malcolm X
Burning Faith
In a book “part history, part mystery, and part investigative journalism,” Christopher B. Strain attributes a marked increase in American church arson in the 1990s to “an absence of community” resulting from the “disappearance of civility” and lack of a “sense of connectedness” (pp. xii, xiii, xiv). Influenced analytically by Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), Strain chooses as primary sources…
Steven F. Lawson, Civil Rights Crossroads
Pure Fire
The Informant
Gary May's The Informant is a riveting account of a bizarre tale and a solid work of investigative history. The author retells the story of Tommy Rowe, a dairy factory employee recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (fbi) in 1960 to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama. Rowe, a rowdy bruiser and “cop buf,” had all the qualities of a perfect Klansman and a perfect informant. As May explains, the fbi recognized that “the mos…
Pure Fire
Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era. By Christopher B. Strain. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 254. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) In Pure Fire, Christopher B. Strain examines how self-defense developed within the civil rights movement in the very years that nonviolent methods used by Martin Luther King, Jr. were becoming the dominant approach in the struggle for racial justice. Arguing that self-defen…
Soul City, North Carolina
Soul City, North Carolina
Pure Fire
Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era. By Christopher B. Strain. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 254. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) In Pure Fire, Christopher B. Strain examines how self-defense developed within the civil rights movement in the very years that nonviolent methods used by Martin Luther King, Jr. were becoming the dominant approach in the struggle for racial justice. Arguing that self-defen…
Steven F. Lawson, Civil Rights Crossroads
Pure Fire
The Informant
Gary May's The Informant is a riveting account of a bizarre tale and a solid work of investigative history. The author retells the story of Tommy Rowe, a dairy factory employee recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (fbi) in 1960 to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama. Rowe, a rowdy bruiser and “cop buf,” had all the qualities of a perfect Klansman and a perfect informant. As May explains, the fbi recognized that “the mos…
Burning Faith
In a book “part history, part mystery, and part investigative journalism,” Christopher B. Strain attributes a marked increase in American church arson in the 1990s to “an absence of community” resulting from the “disappearance of civility” and lack of a “sense of connectedness” (pp. xii, xiii, xiv). Influenced analytically by Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), Strain chooses as primary sources…
The Black Scholar Forum on Marable's Malcolm X
Akinyele Omowale Umoja. We Will Shoot Back
Journal Article Akinyele Omowale Umoja. We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. Get access Akinyele Omowale Umoja. We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. New York: New York University Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 339. $40.00. Christopher Strain Christopher Strain Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Civil rights (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African american (3 works) · Law (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)