Beryl Satter
Biographic Data
| ID | 797335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beryl Satter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Satter |
| SIGNATURE | SATTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0360-4769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
An incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods—as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices. In the 1960s, conditions in impoverished Black neighborhoods attracted mainstream attention as civil unrest erupted in hundreds of cities across the United States. Finally recognizing the dire effects of racial segregation and urban disinvestment, politicia…
Rich, Selfish, and Useless: Recent Scholarly Attacks on Feminists and the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
On its face, the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act was a win in this country's ongoing struggle for gender equality.The Act made it illegal for lenders to discriminate against applicants based on sex or marital status.It applied to retail and credit cards as well as to banks and home mortgages. 1I became interested in it while working on a book about racism and credit discrimination.Yet when I began to investigate its passage, I discovered someth…
Midwest unrest: 1960S urban rebellions and the Black freedom movement , by Ashley Howard
The Right to Define the Question”: The Center for Urban Affairs and Neighborhood Activism in 1970s Chicago
Chicago, the “city of neighborhoods,” was a center for 1970s community activism. This article uncovers the history of Northwestern University’s Center for Urban Affairs (CUA), which worked behind the scenes to create networks—and supply research—that helped Chicago community organizations be so effective. Their work was directed by two veterans of the civil rights movement, John McKnight and Stanley Hallett. Both were committed to “liberating dat…
Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods
Journal Article Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods Get access Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods. (Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism.) New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 335. Cloth $105.00, paper $35.00, e-book $34.99. Beryl Satter Beryl Satter Rutgers Universi…
M aurice J. H obson . The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, was one of several U.S. cities that elected black mayors in the 1970s, just as the U.S. economy in general, and U.S. cities in particular, were hit with a combination of inflation, recession, infrastructure decay, and deindustrialization. Yet while other black-led cities struggled, Atlanta seemed to prosper under the leadership of mayors Maynard H. Jackson Jr. (1974–1982 and 1990–1994) and Andrew Young (1982–1990). Jackson’s bri…
Cops, Gangs, and Revolutionaries in 1960s Chicago: What Black Police Can Tell Us about Power
In late 1960s Chicago, radical black police officers opposed to police brutality created the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League (AAPL). This paper describes the political vision of the AAPL and that of the contemporaneous, path-breaking black television series Bird of the Iron Feather, which was inspired by the AAPL and created with AAPL members’ input. Both used their positions within white-dominated institutions to present black perspectives on w…
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI by Jessica R. Pliley
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI, by Jessica R. Pliley. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2014. 293 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Historians have not been kind to the 1910 Mann Act, which made it a federal crime to transport women across state lines for prostitution any other immoral purpose. They have viewed it as an embarrassing remnant of Progressive-era sexual conservatism and nativism, a tool for the harassment of those…
Jeffrey D. Gonda. Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Historians have relegated Shelley v. Kraemer, the 1948 Supreme Court ruling on restrictive covenants, to a bit part in the larger drama of the mid-twentieth-century struggle over civil rights. Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, Jeffrey D. Gonda’s account of the ruling, is unlikely to change this assessment. Gonda begins with a brief history of the use of restrictive covenants—clauses that cou…
Property Is Bad: Recent Trends in American Studies
A Community’s Response to the Problem of Invisibility: The Queer Newark Oral History Project
The 300 people that gathered in Newark, New Jersey, on a fall day in 2011 were not the typical academic crowd. That day, LGBTQ activists and high school students, street workers and church leaders, politicians and university students, professors, administrators and university staff sat rapt, watching rare and stunning images of “New Millennium Butches,” resplendent in tailored suits of black, pink or purple, flashing before them on a thirty-foot …
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Old Settlers, New Negroes, and the Birth of Modernity in Black Chicago
Old Settlers, New Negroes, and the Birth of Modernity in Black Chicago Beryl Satter (bio) Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. By Davarian Baldwin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 363 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $22.50 (paper). Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 306 pages. $35.00 (cloth). $20.00 (pa…
Writing Gender History: What Does Feminism Have to Do With It
Writing Gender History. By Laura Lee Downs
The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914 . Kathryn J. Oberdeck
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Marcus Garvey recounts the life of the charismatic Jamaican activist who created the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Garvey believed that, although black workers were the productive force that drove the world's economy, they remained powerless because they were divided. Convinced that he could unite blacks internationally, Garvey created the UNIA, an organization dedicated to raising racial consciousness, creating black businesses…
Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915
Review of: Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915. Kirkley, Evelyn A
Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920
Journal Article Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920. By Beryl Satter. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 382 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-21765-9.) Get access Leslie Fishbein Leslie Fishbein Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages …
Mary Baker Eddy
Marcus Garvey, Father Divine and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality
Marcus Garvey, Father Divine and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality Beryl Satter (bio) C. D. Austin's 1936 letter to Marcus Garvey was not the adoring missive Garvey might have expected. After briefly recounting his years of committed support for Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Austin came to his main point: that Father Divine was God and that Garvey would do well to recognize this fact. "'Ga…
Marcus Garvey, Father Divine and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality
Marcus Garvey, Father Divine and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality Beryl Satter (bio) C. D. Austin's 1936 letter to Marcus Garvey was not the adoring missive Garvey might have expected. After briefly recounting his years of committed support for Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Austin came to his main point: that Father Divine was God and that Garvey would do well to recognize this fact. "'Ga…
Cops, Gangs, and Revolutionaries in 1960s Chicago: What Black Police Can Tell Us about Power
In late 1960s Chicago, radical black police officers opposed to police brutality created the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League (AAPL). This paper describes the political vision of the AAPL and that of the contemporaneous, path-breaking black television series Bird of the Iron Feather, which was inspired by the AAPL and created with AAPL members’ input. Both used their positions within white-dominated institutions to present black perspectives on w…
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Marcus Garvey recounts the life of the charismatic Jamaican activist who created the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Garvey believed that, although black workers were the productive force that drove the world's economy, they remained powerless because they were divided. Convinced that he could unite blacks internationally, Garvey created the UNIA, an organization dedicated to raising racial consciousness, creating black businesses…
A Community’s Response to the Problem of Invisibility: The Queer Newark Oral History Project
The 300 people that gathered in Newark, New Jersey, on a fall day in 2011 were not the typical academic crowd. That day, LGBTQ activists and high school students, street workers and church leaders, politicians and university students, professors, administrators and university staff sat rapt, watching rare and stunning images of “New Millennium Butches,” resplendent in tailored suits of black, pink or purple, flashing before them on a thirty-foot …
The Right to Define the Question”: The Center for Urban Affairs and Neighborhood Activism in 1970s Chicago
Chicago, the “city of neighborhoods,” was a center for 1970s community activism. This article uncovers the history of Northwestern University’s Center for Urban Affairs (CUA), which worked behind the scenes to create networks—and supply research—that helped Chicago community organizations be so effective. Their work was directed by two veterans of the civil rights movement, John McKnight and Stanley Hallett. Both were committed to “liberating dat…
Marcus Garvey, Father Divine and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality
Marcus Garvey, Father Divine and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality Beryl Satter (bio) C. D. Austin's 1936 letter to Marcus Garvey was not the adoring missive Garvey might have expected. After briefly recounting his years of committed support for Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Austin came to his main point: that Father Divine was God and that Garvey would do well to recognize this fact. "'Ga…
Mary Baker Eddy
Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920
Journal Article Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920. By Beryl Satter. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 382 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-21765-9.) Get access Leslie Fishbein Leslie Fishbein Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages …
The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914 . Kathryn J. Oberdeck
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Marcus Garvey recounts the life of the charismatic Jamaican activist who created the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Garvey believed that, although black workers were the productive force that drove the world's economy, they remained powerless because they were divided. Convinced that he could unite blacks internationally, Garvey created the UNIA, an organization dedicated to raising racial consciousness, creating black businesses…
Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915
Review of: Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915. Kirkley, Evelyn A
Writing Gender History: What Does Feminism Have to Do With It
Writing Gender History. By Laura Lee Downs
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Old Settlers, New Negroes, and the Birth of Modernity in Black Chicago
Old Settlers, New Negroes, and the Birth of Modernity in Black Chicago Beryl Satter (bio) Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. By Davarian Baldwin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 363 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $22.50 (paper). Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 306 pages. $35.00 (cloth). $20.00 (pa…
A Community’s Response to the Problem of Invisibility: The Queer Newark Oral History Project
The 300 people that gathered in Newark, New Jersey, on a fall day in 2011 were not the typical academic crowd. That day, LGBTQ activists and high school students, street workers and church leaders, politicians and university students, professors, administrators and university staff sat rapt, watching rare and stunning images of “New Millennium Butches,” resplendent in tailored suits of black, pink or purple, flashing before them on a thirty-foot …
Cops, Gangs, and Revolutionaries in 1960s Chicago: What Black Police Can Tell Us about Power
In late 1960s Chicago, radical black police officers opposed to police brutality created the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League (AAPL). This paper describes the political vision of the AAPL and that of the contemporaneous, path-breaking black television series Bird of the Iron Feather, which was inspired by the AAPL and created with AAPL members’ input. Both used their positions within white-dominated institutions to present black perspectives on w…
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI by Jessica R. Pliley
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI, by Jessica R. Pliley. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2014. 293 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Historians have not been kind to the 1910 Mann Act, which made it a federal crime to transport women across state lines for prostitution any other immoral purpose. They have viewed it as an embarrassing remnant of Progressive-era sexual conservatism and nativism, a tool for the harassment of those…
Jeffrey D. Gonda. Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Historians have relegated Shelley v. Kraemer, the 1948 Supreme Court ruling on restrictive covenants, to a bit part in the larger drama of the mid-twentieth-century struggle over civil rights. Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, Jeffrey D. Gonda’s account of the ruling, is unlikely to change this assessment. Gonda begins with a brief history of the use of restrictive covenants—clauses that cou…
Property Is Bad: Recent Trends in American Studies
M aurice J. H obson . The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, was one of several U.S. cities that elected black mayors in the 1970s, just as the U.S. economy in general, and U.S. cities in particular, were hit with a combination of inflation, recession, infrastructure decay, and deindustrialization. Yet while other black-led cities struggled, Atlanta seemed to prosper under the leadership of mayors Maynard H. Jackson Jr. (1974–1982 and 1990–1994) and Andrew Young (1982–1990). Jackson’s bri…
Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods
Journal Article Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods Get access Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods. (Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism.) New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 335. Cloth $105.00, paper $35.00, e-book $34.99. Beryl Satter Beryl Satter Rutgers Universi…
The Right to Define the Question”: The Center for Urban Affairs and Neighborhood Activism in 1970s Chicago
Chicago, the “city of neighborhoods,” was a center for 1970s community activism. This article uncovers the history of Northwestern University’s Center for Urban Affairs (CUA), which worked behind the scenes to create networks—and supply research—that helped Chicago community organizations be so effective. Their work was directed by two veterans of the civil rights movement, John McKnight and Stanley Hallett. Both were committed to “liberating dat…
Midwest unrest: 1960S urban rebellions and the Black freedom movement , by Ashley Howard
Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
An incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods—as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices. In the 1960s, conditions in impoverished Black neighborhoods attracted mainstream attention as civil unrest erupted in hundreds of cities across the United States. Finally recognizing the dire effects of racial segregation and urban disinvestment, politicia…
Rich, Selfish, and Useless: Recent Scholarly Attacks on Feminists and the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act
On its face, the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act was a win in this country's ongoing struggle for gender equality.The Act made it illegal for lenders to discriminate against applicants based on sex or marital status.It applied to retail and credit cards as well as to banks and home mortgages. 1I became interested in it while working on a book about racism and credit discrimination.Yet when I began to investigate its passage, I discovered someth…
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