Jackson State University
  Mississippi's Urban University
 Department of                                                                                     
 History and Philosophy


Ayer Hall

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Dollye M. E. Robinson College of Liberal Arts Building

College of Liberal Arts
Dept. of History and Philosophy
Jackson State University
601.979.2191 Phone
601.979.2192 Fax
history@jsums.edu Email
P.O. Box 17700

Dr. Dernoral Davis, Chair
dernoral.davis@jsums.edu

FACT SHEET

Location: Dollye M.E. Robinson
 Liberal Arts Building
Jackson, MS 39217
Faculty Directory                                           Recent Faculty Publications

Recent Faculty Publications

Brockley, Dr. Janice A.

"Rearing the Child Who Never Grew: Parents and Severely Intellectually Disabled Children in American History." In James Trent and Steven Noll, eds., Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Anthology. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

With Davis, Dernoral, Susan A. Maneck, and Elizabeth S. Overman, Global History Study Guide & Reader, 3rd Edition, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, August, 2004.

With Davis, Dernoral, Susan A. Maneck, and Elizabeth S. Overman, Global History Work Book, Study Guide & Reader, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, January, 2004.

"Martyred Mothers and Merciful Fathers: Exploring Disability and Motherhood in the Lives of Jerome Greenfield and Raymond Repouille." In Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds., The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York: NYU Press, March 2001.

"The History of Mental Retardation: An Essay Review." History of Psychology (January, 1999). 

Crump, Dr. Alfonso W.

Crump, A.W., Dernoral Davis and Susan A. Maneck, Compilers.  About Philosophy: A Multicultural Approach, Custom Edition. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004.

Davis, Dr. Dernoral

Twelve contribution entries in Charles Wilson, ed., Mississippi Encyclopedia.  Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (forthcoming, 2006).

"The Struggle for Urban Supremacy: Natchez, Meridian, Vicksburg, and Jackson in Early 20th Century Mississippi." Journal of Urban History. (forthcoming, 2005).

"Bearing the Cross of Leadership: Booker T. Washington and the Burden of Black America, 1880-1915." In Charles Banner Haley, ed., Black Americans in the Age of Booker T. Washington. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

With Brockley, Janice A., Susan A. Maneck, and Elizabeth S. Overman, Global History Study Guide & Reader, 3rd Edition, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, August, 2004.

With Brockley, Janice A., Susan A. Maneck, and Elizabeth S. Overman, Global History Work Book, Study Guide & Reader, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, January, 2004.

"Medgar Wiley Evers and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement."  In Mississippi History Now. (October 2003)  - An Online Publication

"The Other Political Community and Advocates: Black Democrats in Reconstruction Era Memphis, 1866-1870."  West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, Vol.52, (2002): 92-119.

"When Students Protest." In Mississippi History Now. (October 2002) - An Online Publication.

"Contested Presence: Free Blacks in Antebellum Mississippi, 1817-1860."  In Mississippi History Now. (September 2001) - An Online Publication.

Harrison, Dr. Alferdteen B.

Those Who Stayed at Home, edited, Town Square Books, Inc., November, 2001.

"Uses of Oral History," A West African Journal, 1993.

Black Exodus, The Great Migration from the American South, ed., University Press of Mississippi, Spring, 1991.

Piney Woods School: An Oral History, The University Press of Mississippi, 1982.

Harvey, Dr. James C.

"Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity in Higher Education," Public Administration Times, (August 2004).

Maneck, Dr. Susan S.

With Overman, Brockley, Davis, Global History Study Guide & Reader, 3rd Edition, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, August, 2004.

With Overman, Brockley, Davis, Global History Work Book, Study Guide & Reader, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, January, 2004.

Crump, A.W., Dernoral Davis and Susan A. Maneck, Compilers.  About Philosophy: A Multicultural Approach, Custom Edition. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004.

Mvusi, Dr. Thandekile R. M.

"The Poverty of Females and Blackness in Swaziland." In Poverty in Swaziland: Historical and Comtemporary Forms, ed. Ackson M. Kanduza and Sarah DuPont-Mkhonza, 49-58.  Matsapha, Swaziland: OSSREA, Blue Moon Printing, 2003.

Review of The Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, Washington, D.C. In The Public Historian: A Journal of Public History, (Summer 2003): 106-111.

Review of The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, D.C. In The Public Historian: A Journal of Public History, (Summer 2003): 106-111.

Nyambara, Dr. Pius S.
"Colonial Policy and Peasant Cotton Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia, 1904-1953," International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 33, No.1 (2000): 81-111.

"Immigrants, 'Traditional' Leaders and the Rhodesian State: The Power of Communal Land Tenure and the Politics of Land Acquisition in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1963-1979," Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol.27, No.4 (2001): 771-791.

"The Closing Frontier: Cotton, Immigrants and the Squatter Menace in Gokwe Villages in the 1980s and 1990s," Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol.1, No.4 (2001): 534-549.

"The Politics of Land Acquistion and Struggles Over Land in the 'Communal' Areas of Zimbabwe: The Case of the Gokwe Region of Northwestern Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s," Africa, Vol.71, No.2 (2001): 54-108.

"Madheruka and Shangwe: Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in Gokwe, Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963-1979," Journal of African History, Vol.43, No.2 (2002): 287-306.

"Rural Landlords, Rural Tenants, and the Sharecropping Complex in Gokwe, Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1980s-2002." In Delivering Land and Securing Livelihoods: Post-Independence Land Reform and Resettlement in Zimbabwe, eds. Michael Roth and Francis Gonese, 3-18. Harare: CASS, 2003.

Overman, Dr. Elizabeth S.

"The Etiology of Health Security in the Age of Globalization," In The International Encyclopedia of Globalization for Public Administrators, eds. Ali Farazmand and Jack Pinkowski, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2005 (Forthcoming).

"Is Policy Failure Responsible for the Persistent Wage Discrimination Against Women?," Public Administration Times, August (2004): 5.

With Maneck, Brockley, Davis, Global History Study Guide & Reader, 3rd Edition, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, August, 2004.

With Maneck, Brockley, Davis, Global History Work Book, Study Guide & Reader, Vol. 2, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, January, 2004.

"History Is Anything But Dead, Especially If It Is Applied," Teacher Quality Enhancement Project Newsletter, JSU School of Education, October (2003): 4.

"Civil Rights in the Post-September 11, 2001, Hobbesian World," Public Administration Times, American Society for the Public Administration, Vol.26, No.1 January (2003).

Thompson, Dr. Brenda K.

World Regional/Cultural Geography: The Student's Study Guide and Activity Manual in Geographic Education, 2nd Edition, Jackson, Mississippi: Town Square Books, Inc. 2004.

Vogt, Dr. Daniel C.

Contributor, Mississippi: A Portrait of an American State, 3rd Edition, Montgomery, AL: Claremont Press, 2004.