Publications
Book signing at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on September 1, 2016. Photo: William Farrington.
Books
- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America (Beacon Press, 2021).
- Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, ed. with Ibram X. Kendi (One World/Random House, 2021).
- New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, ed. with Christopher Cameron and Ashley D. Farmer (Northwestern University Press, 2018).
- Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence, ed. with Chad Williams and Kidada Williams (University of Georgia Press, 2016).
- To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism, ed. with Tiffany M. Gill (University of Illinois Press, 2019).
Special Journal Issue
- Guest editor with Ula Y. Taylor and Asia Leeds, “Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism” in Women, Gender, and Families of Color (Fall 2016, Vol. 4, No. 2). [click here to download the introduction]
Journal Articles
- “We will overcome whatever [it] is the system has become today”: Black Women’s Organizing against Police Violence in New York City in the 1980s,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Fall 2018).
- “’To Keep Alive the Teaching of Garvey and the Work of the UNIA’: Audley Moore, Black Women’s Activism, and Nationalist Politics during the Twentieth Century,”Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International (Fall 2018).
- “‘Confraternity Among All Dark Races’: Mittie Maude Lena Gordon and the Practice of Black (Inter)nationalism in Chicago, 1932-1942,” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (Fall 2016): 151-181.
- “‘We Want to Set the World on Fire’: Black Nationalist Women and Diasporic Politics in the New Negro World, 1940-1944,” The Journal of Social History, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Fall 2015): 194-212.
- “‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’: Pearl Sherrod, Black Internationalist Feminism, and Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 17, Nos. 1-2 (June 2015): 90-112.