Reviews in Race & Ethnicity Studies

Navin, John J.. The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020. 212 pp. $17.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781643360546.$28.99 (paper), ISBN 9781643364186.

Reviewed by Jason Herbert (Historians At The Movies)
Published on H-AmIndian (September, 2023)
Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of South Carolina Lancaster)

Greene, Lance. Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2022. 200 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780817321123.

Reviewed by Aubrey Lauersdorf (Auburn University)
Published on H-AmIndian (August, 2023)
Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of South Carolina Lancaster)

Walter Sauer. Jenseits von Soliman: Afrikanische Migration und Community Building in Österreich-eine Geschichte. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2022. 272 pp. EUR 36.90 (paper), ISBN 9783706562690.

Reviewed by Michelle Kiessling (Sheffield Hallam University)
Published on H-Black-Europe (July, 2023)
Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly (Lawrence University)

Odle, Mairin. Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 168 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781512823165.

Brooke M. Bauer. Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840 (Indians and Southern History). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2023. xvi + 245 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8173-2143-7. 

Charlton W. Yingling. Siblings of Soil: Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 337 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-2609-1.

Reviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards (Francis Marion University)
Published on H-Slavery (May, 2023)
Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Michaël Roy. Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture. Translated by Susan Pickford. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Illustrations. xi + 222 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33840-4.

Reviewed by Michael Emett (University of South Carolina)
Published on H-Slavery (April, 2023)
Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

James L. Hill. Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Illustrations. xiii + 303 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-1518-5. 

Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2022. 384 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-6485-9; $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6484-2.

Reviewed by Steven Peach (Tarleton State University)
Published on H-AmIndian (November, 2022)
Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of South Carolina Lancaster)

Matthew Gordon, Kathryn A. Hain. Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 368 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-062218-3.