Books
Editor (with Leigh Raiford), The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (University of Georgia Press, May 2006).
Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard University Press, 2003).
Paperback edition published by University of Florida Press in April 2006
Articles and Chapters in Books
“Introduction: The Struggle over Memory,” co-written with Leigh Raiford, in The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory, ed.
Renee Romano and Leigh Raiford (University of Georgia Press, 2006), xi-xxiv.
“Narratives of Redemption: The Birmingham Church Bombing and the Construction of Civil Rights Memory” in
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory, 96-133.
“No Diplomatic Immunity: African Diplomats, the State Department and Civil Rights, 1961-1964,”
Journal of American History 87(September 2000): 546-579.
“Immoral Conduct: White Women, Racial Transgressions and Child Custody Disputes, 1945-1985” in “Bad” Mothers:
The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America, ed. Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky (New York University Press, 1998), pp. 230-251.
“Mixed Marriage” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Contributor to African Americans, 10 volume biographical set (Scholastic, forthcoming, 2006).
Contributor to Civil Rights in the United States, ed. Waldo Martin and Patricia Sullivan (Macmillan Reference USA, 2000).
Works in Progress
Racial Reckonings: Trials, Truth Commissions, and other Efforts at Racial Reconcilation in the New South
This monograph explores the over twenty cases of
crimes committed during the civil rights era that have been reopened in the
last fifteen years. Project description available upon request.
Book Reviews
Review of Judith Smith, Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960,
American Historical Review, forthcoming.
Review of Alex Lubin,Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954,
Journal of Social History, forthcoming.
Review of Charles F. Robinson II, Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South, Journal of American History, 91 (2004): 1044-1045.
Review of Brenda Gayle Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988,
Journal of Southern History 70 (May 2004): 471-472.
Review of James H. Meriwether, Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961,
Journal of American History 89 (March 2003): 1602-1603.
Review of Constance Curry, et al., Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement, The Alabama Review 55 (October 2002): 307-308.
Review of Azza Layton, International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960,
Journal of American History 88 (September 2001): 726-727.
Review of Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South,
Plantation Society in the Americas 6 (Spring 1999): 110-114.
Review of Cathy Cohen’s, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics, POZ, August 1999, p. 27.
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