Randal Maurice Jelks is a professor of American studies and African and African American studies at the University of Kansas. His recent books include Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali and Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America.
Randal Maurice Jelks
Articles
Close Ranks: On Three New Books Exploring African Americans, Patriotism, and the US Armed Forces
Randal Maurice Jelks reviews three books about the African American experience in war: Beth Bailey’s “An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era,” Matthew F. Delmont’s “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad,“ and Chad L. Williams’s “The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.”
Which Way the NAACP: On A. J. Baime’s “White Lies” and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s “Civil Rights Queen”
Randal Jelks considers two books about underappreciated Civil Rights figures, A. J. Baime’s “White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret” and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s “ Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”
How to Tell Africa’s History?
The saga of a continent, told by a longtime journalist.
The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”
An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson.
All Souls Rising
An anthology of African American literature arrives right on time.
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