Books in progress
Manuscript analyzing De La Soul’s role in shaping an era of rap, Black, and U.S. culture since the 1980s. The manuscript is submitted, under revision, and under contract with One Signal/Simon & Schuster.
The Quest for Democracy: Black Power, New Left, and Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Midwest. Manuscript is in progress and under contract with University of North Carolina Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Detroit Under STRESS: The Campaign to Stop Police Killings and the Criminal State in Detroit,” Journal of Civil and Human Rights, 7:2 (Spring/Summer 2021): 1-34.
“Prison Unions and Mass Incarceration: Prospects for an Improbable Alliance,” New Labor Forum (Winter 2017).
“Bringing the Social Back: Rethinking the Declension Narrative of Twentieth Century U.S. Labor History,” Social History,Vol. 41, Issue 1 (February 2016).
Book Chapters
“Slum Village,” in Detroit: A Literary and Cultural Response, ed. Vincent Haddad, Lansing: Michigan State University Press (Forthcoming).
“Foreword,” in Hurt, Baby, Burt by William Walter Scott, III, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025.
“‘Disorganize the State’: The Black Workers’ Congress’s Visions of Abolition-Democracy in the 1970s,” Labor and Employment Relations Association Research Volume, Vol. 22, Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2022).
“N.W.A. – F– tha Police,” in One Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song, ed. Asif Siddiqi, New York: Routledge (2022): 187-204.
“Teaching and Organizing in an Era of COVID and Black Lives Matter,” in Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity Social Justice in Virtual Settings, eds. Laura Parson and Casey Ozaki, New York: Palgrave (2022).
Encyclopedia Articles
“Labor and Black Power,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, ed. Jon Butler, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023).
“Rap Music,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, ed. Douglas Rossinow, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017).
“Felix Rohatyn,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History, eds. Melvyn Dubovsky, Gerald Friedman, and Joseph McCartin, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013).
Book Reviews
Review of Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio by Katherine Rye Jewell, Society for US Intellectual History (Forthcoming: October 2024).
Review of Histories of Racial Capitalism by Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy, Journal of African American History (June 2023).
Review of To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America by Felicia Angeja Viator, Pacific Historical Review (August 2021)
Review of Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Journal of Southern History (August 2019).
“Rethinking Civil Rights, Reimagining Black Liberation,” Public Books (October 2018), https://www.publicbooks.org/rethinking-civil-rights-reimagining-black-liberation/.
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