Past Publications

Journal Articles:

2010 Book Review: This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity, Journal of American History

2010 The State of Black Women in Politics Under the First Black President, The Scholar and Feminist Online Issue

2008 Barack Obama as Walter Lee Younger, Jr., Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

2007 Review of Black Feminist Voices in Politics by Evelyn Simian, National Political Science Review

2006 Review of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer, Journal of African American History

2002 Negative Black American Stereotypes and Their Impact on Japanese Mindset and Behaviors, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal

2002 Review of Critical race feminism: A Reader edited by Adrien Katherine Wing, Women & Politics

2002 Multicultural Feminism Transforming Democracy, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies

2002 [Reprint] Babylon is Burning, Or Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention (with Adam J. Waterman), Visiones Contemporaneas De La Cultura Y La Literature Norteamericana En Los Sesenta Universidad de Sevilla

2002 The American Health Insurance Landscape: From Self-Insurance to Subsidies, Rationing, and Turmoil (with R Geist), Minnesota Medicine: A Journal of Critical and Health Affairs

2001 Medical Inflation: New systems for controlling it (with R Geist), Minnesota Physician: The Independent Medical Business Newspaper

2000 Multicultural Feminism Transforming Democracy, Macalester International

2000 Babylon is Burning, Or Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention, Journal of Intergroup Relations

2000 The Problem of the 21st Century: The Problem of the Dollar Sign, Black Issues in Higher Education

1999 All of Who I Am in the Same Place: The Combahee River Collective, Womanist Theory and Research

1998 Expanding Women’s Opportunities: Black Participation on the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Journal of Intergroup Relations

1997 Analyzing Racial Justice and Social Law, Journal of Intergroup Relations

1997 Colin Powell’s American Journey: Not to the Capitol, but to Capital, Journal of Intergroup Relations

1996 Reclaiming Culture or Commodifying Contempt?, American Quarterly. Review essay of Kenneth Going’s Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black collectible and American Stereotyping and Patrica A. Turner’s Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture.

1995 More Than Memorabilia? Khaila as Jezebel, Manny, and Sapphire in Losing Isaiah, COLORS: Opinion & the Arts in Communities of Color

1994 Book Review: Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins, Canon: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain American Studies Association

Contributions to Books/Essays:

2010 Orders Highlight Need for Diversity in Appointing Class Counsel, Litigation News

2010 In-House Counsel’s Inactive Bar Status Causes Loss of Privilege, Litigation News

2010 Opposing Party Ordered to Pay Expert Deposition Preparation Fees Litigation News, May 2010

2009 “Clerk-Loaning” Program Sparks Ethical Debate Litigation News, Sept. 4, 2009

2009 Courts Wrangle with Twittering by Jurors Litigation News, July 15, 2009

2009 Computers to Replace Lawyers? Not Yet Litigation News, March 13, 2009

2008 Barack Obama as Walter Lee Younger, Jr. Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Dec. 10, 2008

2004 To Die for the People’s Temple: The Appropriation of Huey Newton by Jim Jones (with A. Waterman), People’s Temple and Black Religion in America

2001 Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement, NYU Press, August 2001

2001 From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Activism from 1960 to 1980, Sisters in the struggle: African American women in the civil rights-black power movement

2001 Nineteenth Cenury Black Feminist Writing and Organizing as a Humanist Act, By These Hands: A Documentary History of African-American Humanism