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Shirley Ann Moore and Quintard Taylor, eds., African American Women
Confront the West, 1600-2000 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
2003)
"Seeking Sunbelt Freedom: African Americans in the Urban Southwest,
1865-1970," OAH Magazine of History 18:1 (October 2003)
"In Search of African American History in the Trans-Mississippi West,"
in Patricia Limerick, William Travis and Julia Hobson, eds., The Handbook
for the New West (W.W. Norton, 2002)
"They Went West," American Legacy: The Magazine of African-American
History and Culture 7:3 (Fall 2001)
Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy and Quintard Taylor, eds., Seeking
El Dorado: African Americans in California, 1769-1997 (Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 2001)
Introduction to John H. Nankivell, Buffalo Soldier Regiment: History
of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, 1869-1926 (Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2001)
"Susie Revels Cayton, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, and the Campaign for
Social Justice in the Pacific Northwest," in William Robbins, ed.,
The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity (Corvallis:
Oregon State University Press, 2001)
"African American Men in the American West," The Annals
of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 569 (May 2000)
"From Esteban to Rodney King: Five Centuries of African American
History in the West," Montana: The Magazine of Western History
46:4 (Winter 1996) Winner, Vivian A. Paladin Award for the best article
to appear in Montana in 1996-1997, in Walter Nugent and Martin Ridge,
eds., The American West: The Reader (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1999)
African American Women in the American West. With Shirley A. Moore.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
"The African American Experience in Nebraska," Introduction
to Bertha W. Calloway and Alonzo Smith, eds., Visions of Freedom on
the Great Plains: An Illustrated History of African Americans in Nebraska
(Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 1998)
Introduction to Henry O. Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point:
Autobiography of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper (Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 1998)
"'There Was No Better Place to Go': The Transformation Thesis Revisited,
African American Migration to the Pacific Northwest, 1940-1950,"
in Paul Hirt, ed., Terra Pacific: People and Place in Northwest America
and Western Canada (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1998)
In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American
West, 1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, 1769-1997.
With Lawrence B. de Graaf. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
"Race and Ethnicity in the Southwest: African American and Arizona
History," in Arizona Attorney 34:6 (February 1998)
"African Americans on the American Frontier," in Howard R. Lamar,
ed., The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1998) 2500 word essay on 19th Century Western black
history.
"A View of the Buffalo Soldiers Through Indigenous Eyes: A Response"
Raven Chronicles 7:2 (Summer/Fall 1997)
"Mary Ellen Pleasant," in Glenda Riley and Richard Etulain,
eds., By Grit and Grace: Women Who Shaped the Pioneer West (Golden,
Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1997)
"Blacks and Asians in a White City: Japanese Americans and African
Americans in Seattle, 1890-1940," Western Historical Quarterly
22:4 (November 1991). Reprinted in Clyde A. Milner, II, ed., Major
Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays second
edition, (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
"Through the Prism of Race: The Meaning of African American History
in the American West," in Clyde A. Milner, ed., A New Significance:
Re-Envisioning the History of the American West (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996)
"Comrades of Color: Buffalo Soldiers in the West, 1866-1917,"
Colorado Heritage 18:(Spring 1996)
"African Americans in the Enchanted State: Black History in New Mexico,
1539-1990," in Thomas Lark, ed., History of Hope: The African
American Experience in New Mexico (Albuquerque: The Albuquerque Museum,
1996)
Articles on Sarah Breedlove Walker, Mary Ellen Pleasant, and Oakland,
California, in Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, eds., Encyclopedia
of the American West (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996)
"The Black Towns," "African Americans in the American West"
(2,000 word essay), and discussions of black communities in Idaho, Montana
and Seattle in Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds.,
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (New York: Macmillan
Publishing Company, 1995)
"Swinging the Door Wide: World War II Wrought a Profound Transformation
in Seattle's Black Community," Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest
History 9:2 (Summer, 1995)
"Contentious Legacy: The Nigerian Youth Movement and the Rise of
Ethnic Politics, 1934-1951," in C.S. Momah and Hakeem Harunah, eds.,
Nigerian Studies in Religious Tolerance, Volume III, Ethnicity, Religion
and Nation-Building, (Lagos: University of Lagos Press\Center for
the Propagation of Religious and Ethnic Tolerance, 1995)
""The Civil Rights Movement in the American West: Black Protest
in Seattle, 1960-1970," Journal of Negro History 80:1 (Winter
1995)
"Slaves and Free Men: Blacks in the Oregon Country, 1840 1860,"
Oregon Historical Quarterly 83:2 (Summer, 1982). Reprinted in Sucheng
Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, Mario T. Garcia, and Terry P. Wilson, eds.,
Peoples of Color in the American West (Lexington: D.C. Heath and
Company, 1994)
(with Donald Grinde) "Red v. Black: Conflict and Accommodation in
the Post Civil War Indian Territory, 1865 1907," American Indian
Quarterly 8:3 (Summer, 1984) Reprinted in Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry
Daniels, Mario T. Garcia, and Terry P. Wilson, eds., Peoples of Color
in the American West (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994)
The Forging of a Black Community: A History of Seattle's Central District,
1870-through the Civil Rights Era. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1994.
"In Search of Nigeria: My Year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University
of Lagos" in Frank J. Salamone, ed., The Fulbright Experience
in Benin (Williamsburg: College of William and Mary Press, 1994)
"African Americans in Pacific Northwest History: Retrospect and Prospect,"
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 7:3 (Fall, 1993)
"Disparate Images: Black Life in Contemporary Japan," Review
of Regge Life's Documentary film, Struggle and Success: The African-American
Experience in Japan in Annual Bulletin of the University of Oregon
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (August 1993)
"The Evolution of Post-Bellum African American Culture," in
Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia
of Social History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), Vol.
II. 12,000 word essay on African American history and culture since 1865.
"Beatrice Cannady, An Early Twentieth Century Oregon Civil Rights
Activist: An Historical Vignette," Linda Harris, Joseph Franklin
and Lillian Whitlow, eds., Voices of Kuumba: An Anthology of the Northwest
African American Writers Workshop, Vol. 4 (Portland: Metropolitan
Arts Commission, 1992)
"Reflections on Two Decades in Pursuit of African American History
in the Pacific Northwest," Joseph Franklin and Linda Harris, eds.,
Voices of Kuumba: An Anthology of the Northwest African American Writers
Workshop, Vol. 3 (Portland: Metropolitan Arts Commission, 1991)
Biographical entries for Jesse Jackson, Otto Kerner, Burke Marshall and
Huey P. Newton in Historical Dictionary of Civil Rights in the United
States (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1991)
Biographies of Lloyd Bentsen and Richard Gephardt in Encyclopedia of
World Biography (New York: McGraw Hill, 1991)
"The Emergence of Black Communities in the Pacific Northwest, 1865-1910,"
Journal of Negro History 64:4 (Fall, 1979) Recipient, Carter G.
Woodson Award for Best JNH Article, 1978 1979. Reprinted in Kenneth L.
Kusmer, ed., Black Communities and Urban Development in America, 1720-1990
10 Vols., (Hamden, Ct: Garland Publishing Inc, 1991), Vol. 4, From
Reconstruction to the Great Migration, 1877-1917.
"Black Urban Development: Another View, Seattle's Central District,
1910 1940, A Case Study," Pacific Historical Review 58:4 (November
1989) Reprinted in Kenneth L. Kusmer, ed., Black Communities and Urban
Development in America, 1720-1990 10 Vols., (Hamden, Ct: Garland Publishing
Inc, 1991), Vol. 5, The Great Migration and After, 1917-1930.
"The Question of Culture: Black Life and the Transformation of Black
Urban America," Essays in History: The Journal of the Historical
Society of the University of Lagos, Nigeria 6:4 (December, 1989)
The Making of the Modern World: A Reader in 20th Century Global History
(Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1990)
"The Troublesome Presence: Black Americans and the United States
Constitution," Proceedings of the International Conference on
Federalism in a Changing World (Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo
University Press, 1988)
Biographies of John B. Connally, Estes Kefauver, John W. McCormack and
Edmund Muskie in Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York: McGraw
Hill, 1986)
(with Donald Grinde) "Native American and Black Interaction in the
American Southeast During the Colonial Period," Hampton Institute
Journal of Ethnic Studies 9:1 (May, 1981)
"The Great Migration: The Afro American Communities of Seattle and
Portland During the 1940s," Arizona and the West 23:2 (Summer,
1981)
"Slave Family Life on the Fazenda and Plantation: A Comparison of
Brazil and the United States, 1750 1850," Proceedings of the First
Annual Conference on Records, Family History and Genealogy Vol. 11
(Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1980)
(with Dennis A. Warner, Karen P. Swope and Michael Balasa) "South
by Northwest: An Educational Television Series Designed to Teach Regional
Black History," Integrated Education 18 (January-August, 1980)
(with Alonzo Smith) "Racial Discrimination in the Workplace: A Study
of Two West Coast Cities During the 1940s, Journal of Ethnic Studies
8:1 (Spring, 1980)
"Frente Negra Brasileira: The Afro Brazilian Civil Rights Movement,
1924 1937," Umoja: A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies 2:1
(Spring, 1978)
"Black Migration to Washington State, 1940 1950," Western
Journal of Black Studies 2:1 (Spring, 1978)
"Blacks in the American West: An Overview," Western Journal
of Black Studies 1:1 (Spring, 1977)
"The Chicago Political Machine and Black Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation,"
Polish American Studies 29:1 (Spring 1972)
Research in Progress
The Twentieth Century African American West (Tucson: University
of Arizona Press, 2005)
Erasmo Gamboa and Quintard Taylor, eds., Peoples of Color in the Pacific
Northwest, 1788-1970 (publisher to be determined)
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