ACADEMIC WRITING |
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP |
ARTICLES & ESSAYS |
WASHINGTON POST |
BOOK CHAPTERS
From Frontier to Heartland: The Black Press and the Middle West.
In Jon K. Lauck ed. Hearing the Heartland: Essays on the Plight and Promise of the New Midwestern History (University of Illinois Press, 2024). 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, 2023). 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 after 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 |