Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies

Education:
BS, Journalism, Northwestern University, 1993;
Ph.D., History, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1999


Research Interests:
African-American popular and political cultures, Black nationalist idologies and practices, gender and sexuality

Selected Publications:
Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (New York: New York University Press, 2005)

Works in Progress:
"What Do We Have to Lose?" School Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas after Brown v. Board, 1953-1970