Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935
African American women in the early-twentieth century made significant contributions toward the development of a black feminist tradition, were at the forefront of black nationalism, and challenged the apparent dichotomy between black nationalism and integrationism. Kate Dossett examines the political thought and cultural production of prominent black women leaders in the years between the founding of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and the National Council of Negro Women in 1935.By featuring the contributions of women like the pioneering black hairdresser, Madam C. J. Walker, and her daughter, as well as club woman Mary McLeod Bethune and United Negro Improvement Association activist Amy Jacques Garvey, Dossett also makes a distinctive contribution to the field of women's history by challenging the reverse class bias that has meant that middle-class women have been deemed less worthy of study, or worse, dubbed assimilationist and accused of lacking race pride.While revealing the depth and complexity of black women's thought in the early twentieth century and highlighting their contribution to a black feminist tradition of activism, "Bridging Race Divides" positions black women at the forefront of both intellectual and practical endeavors in the struggle for black autonomy.
Ladies and Lynching: Southern Women, Civil Rights, and the Rhetoric of Interracial Cooperation
As a women's antilynching association in the 1930s, the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL ) developed a repertoire of rhetorical strategies to encourage communication between their white supporters and their African American counterparts. These strategies included choices that may not seem overtly rhetorical, but can nonetheless be understood as laying the groundwork for communication between groups. Strategies such as choosing meeting facilities, composing official statements, and listening to guest speakers helped members to forge common ground, but ultimately, larger disagreements prevented the ASWPL  supporters from reaching consensus with African American campaigners who were pushing for federal antilynching legislation. Nonetheless, this example contributes to scholarship on the rhetoric of the civil rights movement by highlighting the importance of interracial communication as a rhetorical practice.
Urban Identities and Catastrophe: Izmir and Salonica at the End of the Ottoman Empire*
Two huge fires dramatically influenced the urban development of Salonica and Izmir, in 1917 and in 1922, respectively. These catastrophes occurred after the Ottoman Empire fell, and Salonica and Izmir had shifted into new national contexts. The fires mainly destroyed the districts that were transformed during the late‐Ottoman period. These districts became the cosmopolitan façades of modern Izmir and Salonica. The post‐fires' tabula rasa provided an opportunity for Greek and Turkish politicians and European planners to change the urban identity of both cities. Moreover, the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 transformed their multicultural societies also. Reconstruction plans had been thought to de‐Ottomanize and remove the previous idea of the towns and their multiplicity, interpreting new cultural and nationalist feeling. Here, I emphasize how modernity was interpreted before and after the fires, and point out contradictions between ideological aspects of planning and how the first urban districts were built during the 1920s.