Jama Lazerow

Biographic Data

ID681843
NAMEJama Lazerow
GIVEN NAMESJama
FAMILY NAMELazerow
SIGNATURELAZEROW J
AFFILIATIONSWheelock College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • The Black Panther Party in a City Near You

    Jama LazerowARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2019

    Book Review| July 01 2019 The Black Panther Party in a City Near You The Black Panther Party in a City Near You. Edited by Judson L. Jeffries. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. 256 pp. Index. $84.95 (cloth); $32.95 (paper). Jama Lazerow Jama Lazerow Wheelock College Jama Lazerow is Professor Emeritus of History, Wheelock College. He is the editor (with Yohuru Williams) of Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panthe…

  • The Prime Minister of Black Power

    Jama LazerowARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2015

  • What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy

    Jama LazerowARTICLENew Political Science2014

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsJama LazerowJama Lazerow is the editor, with Yohuru Williams, of In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (2006) and Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party (2008), and the author of the forthcoming monograph, The Awakening of a Sleeping Giant: New Bedford, the Black Panthers, and the 1960s

  • Jakobi Williams. From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago

    Jama LazerowARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    In From the Bullet to the Ballot, Jakobi Williams tells the story of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, one of that group's most important. In four chapters bracketed by a sketch of twentieth-century Chicago politics and an assessment of the party's legacy, Williams treats Panther personnel, programs, politics, and police repression; in doing so, he contributes to a growing historical literature on a still too little understood revo…

  • The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America

    Jama LazerowARTICLEJournal of Church and State2011

  • Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party

    Open AccessYohuru R Williams, Yohuru Williams et al.BOOKLiberated Territory2008

    Introduction. From Oakland to Omaha: Historicizing the Panthers / Yohuru Williams 1 1. Bringing the Black Panther Party Back In: A Survey / Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams 33 2. Black Panthers at the Water's Edge: Oakland, Boston, and the New Bedford Riots of 1970 / Jama Lazerow 85 3. The Power Belongs to Us and We Belong to the Revolutionary Age: Alabama Black Liberation Front and the Long Reach of the Black Panther Party / Robert W. Widell Jr.…

  • In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement

    Open AccessYohuru R Williams, Robert O Self et al.BOOKIn Search of the Black Panther…2006

  • Race and the Early Republic: Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic

    Jama Lazerow, Michael A Morrison et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2003

    Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860 Chapter 3 Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food: Hunting, Agriculture, and a Quaker Construction of Indianness in the Early Republic Chapter 4 From Class to Race in Early America: Northern Post-Emancipation Racial Reconstruction Chapter 5 The Condition Debate and Racial Discourse in the Antebellum North Chapter 6 …

  • He Shall Go out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey

    Jama Lazerow, Douglas R EgertonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000Cited by: 7

    Chapter 1 Illustrations Chapter 2 Editor's Foreword Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Chronology Chapter 6 Abbreviations Chapter 7 Prologue: 1865 Chapter 8 The Book of Telemaque, 1767-1783 Chapter 9 Stranger in a Strange Land, 1783-1793 Chapter 10 Nor a Lender Be, 1794-1799 Chapter 11 Freedom, 1800-1817 Chapter 12 Building the House of the Lord, 1817-1821 Chapter 13 Exodus, 1821-1822 Chapter 14 Lamentations, May-June 1822…

  • Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore

    Jama Lazerow, William R SuttonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1999

  • To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance

    Jama Lazerow, Peter P Hinks et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1997Cited by: 4

  • Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America

    Paul Harvey, Jama LazerowARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996

  • Moralists and Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers

    Jama Lazerow, Steven MintzARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996

  • Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America

    Paul E Johnson, Paul Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America. By Jama Lazerow. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. xxii, 353 pp. $39.50, ISBN 1-56098-544-5.) Get access Paul E. Johnson Paul E. Johnson University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1011–1012, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945688 …

  • A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut, 1792-1822

    Jama Lazerow, David W KlingARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994

  • Spokesmen for the Working Class: Protestant Clergy and the Labor Movement in Antebellum New England

    Jama LazerowARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1993

  • The Labor Movement in Industrializing Detroit

    Jama LazerowARTICLEMonthly Review1988

    Review of Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 by Richard Oestreicher.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

  • Religion and the New England Mill Girl: A New Perspective on an Old Theme

    Jama LazerowARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1987

    IN April 1829, mill girls from three textile factories in Taunton, Massachusetts, abandoned their looms protest a reduction in wages.'1 Bedecked in their colorful working attire-black silk dresses, red shawls, and green calashes -the women paraded about the town common before a shocked if somewhat amused gathering of local menfolk. Their leader was a young weaver named Salome Lincoln. Just twenty-two years old, she had spent eight years working i…

  • United States

    Open AccessRonald Provencher, Robin W Winks et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1986Cited by: 1

  • Religion and Labor Reform in Antebellum America: The World of William Field Young

    Open AccessJama LazerowARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1986Cited by: 1

    decree 'in the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,' we trace the original design of the Creator. Thus began the resolutions of a regional convention of mechanics and laborers at Boston's Faneuil Hall in 1844. It was wrong, these workers insisted, that some should toil while others ate, that a few should govern while the many served, since God has revealed himself as the ruler, and all men are brethren. The following year, a labor reformer in …

  • The workingman's hour”: The 1886 labor uprising in Boston

    Jama LazerowARTICLELabor History1980Cited by: 2References: 2