My research interests include U.S. politics, African American political movements and the emergence of Black feminist theory and organization in the 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing sexuality and soci-economic status as points of conflict and coherence. Another area of interest for me is race and gender issues as well as class issues within the African American community. I have been teaching at Macalester College since 1998 and teach courses on race, ethnicity and politics; African American political thought; and black public intellectuals. EDUCATION: B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1991; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1997
Journal Articles
Review of Black Feminist Voices in Politics by Evelyn Simian, National Political Science Review (2007)
Review of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer, Journal of African American History (2006)
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)
Contributions to Books/Essays
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 (2004)
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)