TY - JOUR
AU1 - Tushnet, Mark V.
AB - Book Reviews 647 example, I was troubled by his minimal ref- cause much of what follows is critical, I should erences to medical and public health history be clear at the outset that Black Trials provides scholarship, especially on African Americans. a valuable account of the development of Afro- He seems unaware of the role of African Amer- Americans’ place in American civil and politi- icans in public health work, even as part of the cal society. The account emerges in its full National Negro Health Movement of 1915 to force, though, only after one strips away Mark 1950. There is no discussion of black agency, S. Weiner’s overt theorizing and gets over some including black activists’ fight for the extension irritation at his version of literariness (includ- of government services to African Americans. ing Schama’s innovation, the interjection of Finally, he gives the erroneous impression that imagined events into historical narratives). the black civil rights movement did not begin Weiner’s introduction places his account until after 1960. in an anthropological theoretical framework, In addition, despite the care with which describing the role of ritual in civic definition Troesken uses his evidence, I was not com- and social reproduction. 
TI - Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3659361
DA - 2005-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/black-trials-citizenship-from-the-beginnings-of-slavery-to-the-end-of-EVMEPrqaDn
SP - 647
EP - 648
VL - 92
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -