Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2021)
Contents Introduction: African American Migration to Smaller Midwestern Cities
Brie Swenson Arnold
Symposium on the African American Midwest With Shared Roots: Rubie Bond, the Great Migration, and the Struggle for Black Freedom in Beloit, Wisconsin
Francis Gourrier
“The Bitter with the Sweet”: African Americans in Parsons, Kansas
Bryan M. Jack
“Times Certainly Have Changed”: Burlington, Iowa’s Black Community on the Mississippi, 1860–1920
Dwain Coleman
Black Shapings of Freedom and Emancipation Celebrations in Saginaw, Michigan, 1839–1915
Michelle S. Johnson
An Ever-Present Impulse: The Legacy of Anti-Black Violence and the Paradox of Minnesota Exceptionalism
William D. Green
The Long History of Black Political and Identity Struggles in Minnesota: A Consideration of the Work of William D. Green
Jacob A. Bruggeman
Putting the Black Midwest Front and Center
Selika Ducksworth-Lawton
Book Reviews Rebecca Barrett-Fox,
God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right Paul E. Teed
Deborah E. Kanter,
Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican Emiliano Aguilar
Cynthia Leanne Landrum,
The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools John R. Legg
Charles McCarthy,
The Wisconsin Idea Tim Lacy
Richard L. Pifer with Marjorie Hannon Pifer,
The Great War Comes to Wisconsin: Sacrifice, Patriotism, and Free Speech in a Time of Crisis Jonathan Kasparek
Jim Reese,
Bone Chalk Patrick Hicks
Matthew Roth,
Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America David D. Vail
Joshua Specht,
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America Hayden L. Nelson
Mary Wisniewski,
Algren: A Life Douglas Sheldon
Constance Fenimore Woolson,
Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches MaryKat Parks Workinger
Review Essay How Frémont Framed the West
John Bicknell
Media Reviews The Importance of Place in
The Act (Hulu, 2019–)
Charity Gibson
Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town: A Digital Exhibition at The Newberry
Jaka Lombar
Don’t Breathe (2016), directed by Fede Álvarez
Tim Posada
The Bridges of Madison County, dir. Clint Eastwood, 1995
Neepa Sarkar
