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ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

"Johnson Publishing Company and the Search for a White Audience."
American Journalism, ​issue tbc.

"Getting on the Negro History Bandwagon: Selling Black History from World War II to the Dawn of Black Power.”
​ Journal of African American History 107, no. 3 (2022).

“Hunt the Wizard! Race, Immigration, and David Duke’s 1978 Tour of Britain.”
Contemporary British History 35, no. 1. (2021), pp. 100-124.

“His Light Still Shines: Corporate Advertisers and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.”
Advertising & Society Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2021), online.

"Digital Collection: 40 Years of MLK Adverts."
Advertising & Society Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2021). online.

“Class, Culture, and Coming of Age in Alice Browning's ‘Chicago Girl’.”
African American Review 54, no. 1 (2021), pp. 259-280.

“Roil Britannia: Al Sharpton, the British Press, and the 1991 Murder of Rolan Adams.”
Immigrants & Minorities 37, no. 3 (2020), pp. 184-210.

“Ben Burns and the Boundaries of Black Print in Chicago, 1942-1954.”
Journal of American Studies 53, no. 3 (2019), pp. 703-724.

“Black Power Print.”
Radical Americas 3, no. 1 (2018), online.

“A Hero to be Remembered: Ebony Magazine, Critical Memory and the ‘Real Meaning’ of the King Holiday.”
Journal of American Studies 52, no. 2 (2018), pp. 503-527.

“Lerone Bennett, Jr.: A Life in Popular Black History.”
The Black Scholar 47, no. 4 (2017), pp. 3-17.

“Black Power Across Borders.”
Reviews in American History 45, no. 4 (2017), pp. 685-693.

“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, no. 2 (2016), pp. 283-301.

“Power is 100 Years Old: Lerone Bennett, Jr., Ebony Magazine and the Roots of Black Power."
The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 9, no. 2 (2016), pp. 165-188.

“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, no. 1 (2013), pp. 109-123.

SPECIAL ISSUES | INTERVIEWS | ROUNDTABLES

“The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust, Community Activism, and Public History Programming.” 
History 107 (2022), pp. 270-286.

“Race, Immigration and the British Press since 1945.”
Immigrants & Minorities 38, no.3 (2020, with Simon Peplow)

“Newsworthy to Whom? A Conversation with Kennetta Hammond Perry.”
Immigrants & Minorities 38, no.3 (2020), pp. 238-244.

“American Studies in Precarious Times.”
Journal of American Studies 53, no. 3 (2019), pp. 819-836.

“Radical American Periodicals.” 
Radical Americas 3, no.1 (2018, with Victoria Bazin and Sue Currell)

​"We Were All Pioneers: A Discussion with Simeon Booker.”
Southern Quarterly 52, no. 1 (2014), pp. 215-223.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“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 (Illinois, 2022).

“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 (Manchester, 2022).

“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 (Wisconsin, 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).

“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).

BOOK REVIEWS

I have reviewed books for the following academic publications:

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

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