JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
"Race, Immigration, and the British Press since 1945." Special issue of Immigrants & Minorities (2020, with Simon Peplow)
"Radical American Periodicals." Special issue of Radical Americas (2018, with Sue Currell and Victoria Bazin)
"Radical American Periodicals." Special issue of Radical Americas (2018, with Sue Currell and Victoria Bazin)
ARTICLES + ESSAYS
"Class, Culture, and Coming of Age in Alice Browning's "Chicago Girl".' African American Review, 54 (2021)
“Roil Britannia! Al Sharpton, the British Press, and the 1991 Murder of Rolan Adams." Immigrants & Minorities (2020)
"Ben Burns and the Boundaries of Black Print in Chicago, 1942-1954.” Journal of American Studies, 53 (2019)
“American Studies in Precarious Times.” Journal of American Studies, 53 (2019, part of roundtable on American Studies in Britain)
“Reading the Radical American Periodical.” Radical Americas, 3 (2018, with Sue Currell and Victoria Bazin)
“Black Power Print.” Radical Americas, 3 (2018)
“A Hero to be Remembered: Ebony Magazine, Critical Memory and the ‘Real Meaning’ of the King Holiday.” Journal of American Studies, 52 (2018)
“Lerone Bennett, Jr.: A Life in Popular Black History.” The Black Scholar, 47 (2017)
“Black Power Beyond Borders.” Reviews in American History, 45 (2017)
"Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake." Southern Spaces (2017)
“I See Enough Queers Walking the Streets in This City: Homosexuality and Sexual Geographies in Black Consumer Magazines during the 1970s.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, 18 (2016)
“Power is 100 Years Old: Lerone Bennett, Jr., Ebony and the Roots of Black Power." The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 9 (2016)
“We Were All Pioneers: A Discussion with Simeon Booker.” Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts and Letters in the South, 52 (2014)
“Rethinking Representations of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” Journal of International Women’s Studies, 14 (2013)
“James Brown, Stokely Carmichael and ‘Acceptable’ Forms of Black Power Protest.” Black Diaspora Review, 4.1 (2013)
“Roil Britannia! Al Sharpton, the British Press, and the 1991 Murder of Rolan Adams." Immigrants & Minorities (2020)
"Ben Burns and the Boundaries of Black Print in Chicago, 1942-1954.” Journal of American Studies, 53 (2019)
“American Studies in Precarious Times.” Journal of American Studies, 53 (2019, part of roundtable on American Studies in Britain)
“Reading the Radical American Periodical.” Radical Americas, 3 (2018, with Sue Currell and Victoria Bazin)
“Black Power Print.” Radical Americas, 3 (2018)
“A Hero to be Remembered: Ebony Magazine, Critical Memory and the ‘Real Meaning’ of the King Holiday.” Journal of American Studies, 52 (2018)
“Lerone Bennett, Jr.: A Life in Popular Black History.” The Black Scholar, 47 (2017)
“Black Power Beyond Borders.” Reviews in American History, 45 (2017)
"Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake." Southern Spaces (2017)
“I See Enough Queers Walking the Streets in This City: Homosexuality and Sexual Geographies in Black Consumer Magazines during the 1970s.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, 18 (2016)
“Power is 100 Years Old: Lerone Bennett, Jr., Ebony and the Roots of Black Power." The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 9 (2016)
“We Were All Pioneers: A Discussion with Simeon Booker.” Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts and Letters in the South, 52 (2014)
“Rethinking Representations of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” Journal of International Women’s Studies, 14 (2013)
“James Brown, Stokely Carmichael and ‘Acceptable’ Forms of Black Power Protest.” Black Diaspora Review, 4.1 (2013)
BOOK CHAPTERS + ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
“Rodney King and the Nation’s Afterlives” in Douglas Field, Ian Scott and Jenny Barrett ed. Art, Culture & Ethics in Black and White: Over 100 Years of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (forthcoming with Manchester University Press)
“A Labor of Love: John H. White, Documerica, and Working-Class Black Chicago During the 1970s” in Simon Balto, Erik Gellman and Andrea Jackson ed. New Histories of Black Chicago (forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press)
“Get Out! (of the White House): Horror Parody and Social Commentary in the Age of Trump” in Victoria McCollum ed. Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear (Routledge, 2019)
“The Books You’ve Waited For: Ebony Magazine, the Johnson Book Division, and Black History in Print.” In Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne ed. Against A Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
“No Place Like Home: Chicago's Black Metropolis and the Johnson Publishing Offices, 1942-1975.” In DaMaris B. Hill ed. The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow (Lexington, 2016)
“Badman.” In Christopher Fee and Jeffrey Webb ed., American Myth, Legend, and Folklore (ABC-CLIO, 2016)
“A Double-Edged Sword: Ebony Magazine and the 2008 Obama Campaign.” In Josephine Metcalf and Carina Spaulding ed. African American Culture and Society Post Rodney King (Ashgate, 2015)
“The War on Drugs.” In Michael S. Green and Scott L. Stabler ed. Ideas and Movements That Shaped America (ABC-CLIO, 2015)
“The Assassination of Malcolm X”; “The Watts Riots.” In Michael Newton-Matza ed. Disasters and Tragic Events that Shaped American History (ABC-CLIO, 2014).
“A Labor of Love: John H. White, Documerica, and Working-Class Black Chicago During the 1970s” in Simon Balto, Erik Gellman and Andrea Jackson ed. New Histories of Black Chicago (forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press)
“Get Out! (of the White House): Horror Parody and Social Commentary in the Age of Trump” in Victoria McCollum ed. Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear (Routledge, 2019)
“The Books You’ve Waited For: Ebony Magazine, the Johnson Book Division, and Black History in Print.” In Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne ed. Against A Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
“No Place Like Home: Chicago's Black Metropolis and the Johnson Publishing Offices, 1942-1975.” In DaMaris B. Hill ed. The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow (Lexington, 2016)
“Badman.” In Christopher Fee and Jeffrey Webb ed., American Myth, Legend, and Folklore (ABC-CLIO, 2016)
“A Double-Edged Sword: Ebony Magazine and the 2008 Obama Campaign.” In Josephine Metcalf and Carina Spaulding ed. African American Culture and Society Post Rodney King (Ashgate, 2015)
“The War on Drugs.” In Michael S. Green and Scott L. Stabler ed. Ideas and Movements That Shaped America (ABC-CLIO, 2015)
“The Assassination of Malcolm X”; “The Watts Riots.” In Michael Newton-Matza ed. Disasters and Tragic Events that Shaped American History (ABC-CLIO, 2014).
BOOK REVIEWS
I have reviewed books for the following academic journals:
American Journalism
American Studies
Callaloo
Ethnicity & Race in a Changing World
Immigrants & Minorities
Journal of American Culture
Journal of American Studies
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Magazine Media
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Sport History
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
New York History: A Quarterly Journal
Social History
American Journalism
American Studies
Callaloo
Ethnicity & Race in a Changing World
Immigrants & Minorities
Journal of American Culture
Journal of American Studies
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Magazine Media
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Sport History
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
New York History: A Quarterly Journal
Social History
