These are some recommended books for a book review, if you choose a book review as your choice for the
assignment:
Danielle McGuire,
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A New
History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Peniel Joseph,
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Crystal Feimster,
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
Glenda Gilmore,
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North
Carolina, 1896-1920
Shelby Steele,
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil
Rights Era
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Provide an overview of the book. What is it about? Identify the major events and
personalities examined, the key concepts employed, and so forth. Try to cover
the summary of the book within three or four paragraphs. Do not summarize
general knowledge on the topic and avoid a chapter-by-chapter summary of the
book. Instead, focus on the author’s ideas and main points.
2.
Analyze the book’s thesis. What is the author’s main argument or arguments? Is
the author trying to demonstrate, prove, or refute something? Is the author
involved in any historiographical debates? If so, what position does the author
take, and what does the author add to the debate?
3.
Offer a critical assessment of the book’s strengths and weaknesses. What do you
think of the authors’ theses? Do they do a good job of proving them? What
sources did they use: personal experience, unpublished government documents,
private manuscript collections, published primary or secondary works? If
relevant, did they consult sources written in the appropriate foreign languages?
Do you think they addressed all the relevant issues? What (if anything) did they
leave out or ignore? What were the authors’ qualifications for writing such books?
Did they have a particular bias or ax to grind? How do the assessments of each
historian differ from one another? Do they reach similar or divergent
conclusions? How do you explain their different opinions? How do they compare
with your perspective, that of the textbook, or other books that you have read on
the subject?
Appraise the books’ historical value. What do these books contribute to our
understanding of the subject? How useful would an interested historian find these
books? What makes you think so? Try to place the books within the context of
one or more of the main themes and concepts discussed in the course.
5.
In summary to cover the book in detail, look at the approaches the authors take,
their methodology, their theses, conclusions, and importance to the
historiography (or written history on this topic by previous authors in the field),of
their subjects