Books:
Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Refereed Articles:
"Hannah Elias Talks Freely: Interracial Sex and Black
Female Subjectivity in Turn-of-the-Century New York City," in Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital, edited by Adrienne D. Davis and the BSE Collective (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019), 59-72.
Guest Co-editor (with Kali N. Gross), Special Issue “Gendering the
Carceral State: African American Women, History, and Criminal Justice”
in The Journal of African American History (Summer 2015).
“Mabel Hampton in Harlem: Regulating Black Women’s Sexuality in the 1920s,” in Women’s America: Refocusing the Past,
editors Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia H. Dayton and
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Eighth edition (New York: Oxford University Press,
2016) condensed and revised version of chapter 7 from Talk With You Like A Woman for a Women’s History textbook.
“`Bright and Good Looking Colored Girl’: Black Women’s Sexuality and
“Harmful Intimacy” in Early Twentieth-Century New York,” in The Punitive Turn: Race, Prisons, Justice and Inequality, eds. Deborah E. McDowell, Claudrena N. Harold, and Juan Battle (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013): 73-107.
“`Bright and Good Looking Colored Girl’: Black Women’s Sexuality and
“Harmful Intimacy” in Early Twentieth-Century New York,” in special
issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality,” Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 2009): 418-456.
2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Article Prize, Association of Black Women Historians
“`In Danger of Becoming Morally Depraved’: Single Black Women,
Working-Class Black Families, and New York State’s Wayward Minor Law,
1915-1935,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, No. 6 (June 2003): 2077-2121.