This page lists my published/forthcoming journal articles, book chapters, and other forms of academic writing.

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JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

• "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)

ARTICLES + ESSAYS

• "His Light Still Shines: Corporate Advertisers and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday." Advertising & Society Quarterly, 21 (2021).
• "Hunt the Wizard! Race, Immigration, and British Tabloid Coverage of David Duke's 1978 Tour." Contemporary British History, 35 (2021).
• ​"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).
• “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).
• “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).
• “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).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “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.” 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)

INTERVIEWS, ROUNDTABLES, & DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

• "Digital Collection: 40 Years of MLK Adverts." Advertising & Society Quarterly, 21 (2021).
• "Newsworthy to Whom? A Conversation with Kennetta Hammond Perry." Immigrants & Minorities, 37 (2020).
• “American Studies in Precarious Times.” Journal of American Studies, 53 (2019).
• "Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake." Southern Spaces (2017).
• “We Were All Pioneers: A Discussion with Simeon Booker.” Southern Quarterly, 52 (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