Joanne Meyerowitz

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Joanne Meyerowitz | Subaltern History Makers and Alternative Constructions of the Past: An Introduction | The Journal of American History, 89.4 | The History Cooperative

Subaltern History Makers and Alternative Constructions of the Past: An Introduction

Despite numerous studies of historiography, collective memory, and amateur history, U.S. historians have only begun to investigate how members of subordinated groups consciously constructed alternative popular versions of the past. In this round table, we bring together two articles that address such history-making projects. In "Meta Warrick's 1907 'Negro Tableaux' and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory," W. Fitzhugh Brundage looks at the visual representations of African American history created by the black sculptor Meta Warrick for the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition. In "The Politics of Transnational History Making: Japanese Immigrants on the Western 'Frontier,' 1927–1941," Eiichiro Azuma studies the group identity created by Issei historians of Japanese American life. . . .

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