Other Writing

Peer-Reviewed Articles, Book Chapters, and Essays

“Atlanta,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. Article published June 21, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.1052.

“Black Power in the Board Room: Leon Sullivan and the Corporate Anti-Apartheid Response,” Enterprise & Society, vol.21, no. 1 (March 2020): 170-209. DOI:             https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2019.32.

• Honorable Mention for the 2021 Mira Wilkins Prize for the best article in international business history (Business History Conference)

“Selling Atlanta: Black Mayoral Politics from Protest to Entrepreneurism, 1973 to 1990,” Journal of Urban History, vol. 41, no. 3 (May 2015): 420-443. DOI:             https://doi.org/10.1177/009614421456695.

“Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Birth of Czechoslovakian Civil Society in the Sixties” in Political and Social Movements during the Sixties and Seventies in the Americas and Europe, Avital H. Bloch, ed. (Colima, Mexico: University of Colima Press, 2011): 109-129.

Reviews

Review of Destin Jenkins, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (The University of Chicago Press, 2021), in Business History Review, vol. 97, no 4 (Winter 2024): 922-924. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680524000059.

“Thinking with (Neo-)Colonialism in ‘Race for Profit,’ Roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s  Race for Profit, Black Perspectives, March 11, 2021, https://www.aaihs.org/thinking-with- neo-colonialism-in-race-for-profit/.

Review of Zeb Larson, “The Sullivan Principles: South Africa, Apartheid, and Globalization,” Diplomatic History, vol. 44, no. 3 (June 2020): 479-503, in H-Diplo, November 19, 2020, https://hdiplo.org/to/AR1000.

Review of Nan Enstad, Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University    of Chicago Press, 2018) in Enterprise & Society, vol. 21, no 2 (June 2020): 555-557.

Review of Nicholas Grant, Winning Our Freedom Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2017), in Black Perspectives, October 5, 2018, https://www.aaihs.org/african-americans-and-the-south-african-anti-apartheid-movement/.

Review of Robert E. Weems, Jr. and Jason P. Chambers, eds., Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago (University of Illinois Press, 2017), in Business History Review, vol. 92, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 166-168.

Writing for Broad Audiences          

“Galvanizing the American Public, ANC and Anti-Apartheid,” Special Forum on “The End of South African Apartheid Anniversary,” Black Perspectives, April 24, 2024,     https://www.aaihs.org/galvanizing-the-american-public-anc-and-anti-apartheid/.

“A History of Corporate DEI—or a Black Power Method for Business History,” The American Historian, Special Issue on Capitalism & History. The Organization of American Historians (Summer 2023), https://www.oah.org/tah/capitalism/a-history-of-corporate-dei- or-a-black-power-method-for-business-history/.

“Activism is the key to protecting worker health as we reopen America,” The Washington Post, Made by History, June 15, 2020,             https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/15/activism-is-key-protecting-worker-         health-we-reopen-america/.

“On the Limits of Boycotts as a Political Tool,” Black Perspectives, March 14, 2018,          https://www.aaihs.org/on-the-limits-of-boycotts-as-a-political-tool/.

“A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II,” Black Perspectives, February 16, 2018, https://www.aaihs.org/a-troubled-past-the-united-states-and-africa-since-world-war-ii/.

“Good corporate citizenship won’t end racism: The NFL must do more,” The Washington Post, Made by History, October 8, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-            history/wp/2017/10/08/good-corporate-citizenship-wont-end-racism-the-nfl-must-do-            more/?utm_term=.30fa8d0e13a0

“Corporate America Alone Cannot Save Us from Trump,” Public Seminar, August 18, 2017,             http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/08/corporate-america-alone-cannot-save-us-from-    trump/#.WZwv01GGOM8.

“Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America,” Black Perspectives, January 29, 2017,        http://www.aaihs.org/donald-trumps-old-deal-for-black-america/.