Publications

My publications in or related to the field of African American educational and intellectual history include the following: “From Civil Rights to Hip Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas,” published in the Journal of African American History (formerly Journal of Negro History); “Of Victorianism, Civilizationism, and Progressivism: The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois,” forthcoming in the History of Education Quarterly; “The Dilemmas, Challenges and Dualities of an African American Educational Historian,” published in Educational Researcher; and “Conceptualizing a Du Boisian Philosophy of Education: Toward a Model for African American Education,” published in Educational Theory.

In my book, The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History (Teachers College Press, forthcoming 2007), I challenge atomistic conceptions of Du Boisian thought and present a dialectical and multifaceted Du Bois whose educational thought was complex and pragmatic. Currently, I am working on an intellectual history of hip hop that explores ideas of social consciousness in hip hop culture. I also serve as the co-director of the Footsoldier Project for Civil Rights Studies at the University of Georgia, and I am associate editor for the Journal of African American History.

Cogitationes Habent Eventus

“The Limits of Master Narratives in History Textbooks: An Analysis of Representations of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Teachers College Record 108, no.4, (2006): 662-686.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas,”
Journal of African American History 90, no. 2, (Summer 2005): 226-252.

 “The Dilemmas, Challenges, and Duality of an African American Educational Historian.”
Educational Researcher 32, no. 9 (2003): 25-34.

 “Guiding Philosophical Principles for a Du Boisian-Based African-American Educational Model,”
Journal of Negro Education 68, no. 2 (1999): 182-199.