Publications & Other Writings

• Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (2019)

A history of how black entrepreneurs produced media images that forged associations between blackness and Americans in ways that facilitated civil rights agendas in the post-World War II era. Available through University of Pennsylvania Press, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and other booksellers.

• “Selling Liberia: Moss H. Kendrix, the Liberian Centennial Commission, and the Post-World War II Trade in Black Progress,” Enterprise & Society, Vol. 14, no. 2 (June 2013).

Winner of the 2014 Mira Wilkins Prize, “Selling Liberia” examines the activities of Moss Kendrix, a budding black entrepreneur and Public Relations Officer for the Centennial Commission of the Republic of Liberia, during the years immediately following World War II. To secure US investment in Liberia's postwar development, Kendrix re-presented African Americans and Americo-Liberians as new markets valuable to US economic growth and national security. .

• 5 Questions, A Correction: A Podcast, July 21, 2020.

• Black Agenda Report Book Forum: Brenna Greer’s Represented, April 1, 2020.

• “Historians breathe a sigh of relief at the sale of the Ebony and Jet photo archives,” Columbia Journalism Review, August 1, 2019.

• “Who gets to be celebrated during Women’s History Month?” Women’s Media Center, March 20, 2019.

• “We, Too, Sing America. Or, Do We?” The Spoke, October 26, 2017.

• “Coming to Grips with Racism,” The Spoke, April 4, 2017.

• “A Response to DeVos’ ‘Ominous’ Words,” The Spoke, March 10, 2017

• “Consuming America: Moss Kendrix, Coca-Cola and the Identity of the Black American Consumer,” Coca-Cola Journey, February 25, 2013.