African-American and African Studies

Research output

Research output per year 1976 1986 1988 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2014 2020 2023 2023

• 95 Article
• 47 Chapter
• 14 Book
• 5 Review article
• 1 More
  • 1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  Eating Bodies: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones

  Githire, N., Dec 1 2023, In: Research in African Literatures. 53, 4, p. 141-159 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Edwidge Danticat 100%
  • Immigrants 63%
  • Farming 61%
  • Cannibalism 53%
  • Dominican Republic 42%

• Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War

  Woldense, J. & Kroeger, A., Mar 9 2023, In: American Political Science Review. 51, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • cold war 100%
  • persistence 94%
  • coalition 89%
  • elite 82%
  • regime 74%

• Mother Earth is for us all: the discontent of Oromo pottery-making women at land dispossession in Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia

  Wayessa, B., 2023, In: Journal of Eastern African Studies. 17, 3, p. 445-465 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pottery-making 100%
  • Mother Earth 91%
  • Dispossession 75%
  • Ethiopia 72%
  • Southwest 62%

• My Meals Are in the Pots: Making Pots and Meals in Wollega, Southwest Ethiopia

  Wayessa, B. S., Sep 2023, In: African Archaeological Review. 40, 3, p. 519-529 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Femme 100%
  • Ethiopia 92%
  • Pot 90%
  • Meal 89%
  • meals 86%
  1 Scopus citations

• Prepared in pots, served in plastics: Rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy

  Wayessa, B. S., Mar 2023, In: Ethnography. 24, 1, p. 44-62 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Global Economy 100%
  • Rural women 95%
  • Pot 91%
  • Pottery-making 64%
  • Land Policy 61%
  3 Scopus citations
• 2022

  Homeland politics, imagined homeland, and the formation of Oromo diaspora identity

  Wayessa, B., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: African Identities.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • diaspora 100%
  • Homelands 98%
  • Homeland 93%
  • Diasporas 92%
  • politics 54%

• What Happens When Coups Fail? The Problem of Identifying and Weakening the Enemy Within

  Woldense, J., Jun 2022, In: Comparative Political Studies. 55, 7, p. 1236-1265 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Ethiopia 100%
  • opposition 73%
  • regime 65%
  • event 52%
  • management 44%
  8 Scopus citations

• Writing back to Hugo: Intertextuality in the works of Raphaël Confiant and Gisèle Pineau

  Githire, N., Sep 1 2022, In: International Journal of Francophone Studies. 25, 1-2, p. 9-35 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Intertextuality 100%
  • Victor Hugo 77%
  • carnival 26%
  • foreignness 20%
  • Historical Drama 20%
  1 Scopus citations
• 2021

  Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism

  Williamson, T. L., Feb 2021, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 39, 1, p. 22-29 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  2 Scopus citations

• ‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern Ethiopia

  Wayessa, B., 2021, In: Azania. 56, 1, p. 115-139 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Technological Style 100%
  • Pottery-making 92%
  • Pottery 92%
  • Ethiopia 66%
  • Technological Choice 24%
  2 Scopus citations
• 2020

  A view from Beale Street

  Onishi, Y., Mar 1 2020, In: Modern American History. 3, 1, p. 99-102 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Black Feminism and Womanism

  Brewer, R. M., Jan 1 2020, Companion to Feminist Studies. Wiley, p. 91-104 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

  • feminism 100%
  • Third World 68%
  • gender 50%
  • women's liberation 50%
  • intersectionality 38%
  2 Scopus citations

• Fanon, black lives, and revolutionary black feminism: 21st century considerations

  Brewer, R. M., 2020, Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 47-66 20 p. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences; vol. 142).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Whose development? The dilemma of rural artisan women in southwestern Ethiopia

  Wayessa, B., Aug 1 2020, In: Anthropology Today. 36, 4, p. 20-23 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Land ownership 100%
  • socioeconomic position 95%
  • Rural women 90%
  • caste 84%
  • Ethiopia 84%
  7 Scopus citations

• “Sellin’ your own body”: Contextualizing racialized gender violence and illicit sexual practice

  Williamson, T. L., Mar 1 2020, In: Signs. 45, 3, p. 524-528 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sexual 100%
  • violence 83%
  • gender 65%
  • Rape 53%
  • Inner Life 40%
  1 Scopus citations
• 2019

  Black movement formation: Race, class, gender, capitalist globalization, and white nationalism today

  Brewer, R., Jan 1 2019, In: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 18, 1-2, p. 13-23 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Capitalism 100%
  • nationalism 89%
  • Internationality 70%
  • Sexuality 62%
  • Police 62%

• Studies in “Japanese Dream”: A Transpacific Inquiry into Afrodiasporic Feminist Thought

  Onishi, Y., Mar 12 2019, Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies. Springer International Publishing, p. 183-202 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Robert Williams 100%
  • Liberation 43%
  • Cuba 40%
  • Black Power 40%
  • Political Participation 38%

• Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies

  Onishi, Y. & Sakashita, F., Mar 12 2019, Springer International Publishing. 226 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Japan 100%
  • Black History 98%
  • Solidarity 77%
  • history 72%
  • solidarity 60%
  1 Scopus citations
• 2017

  Why did they die? On Combahee and the serialization of black death

  Williamson, T. L., Jul 3 2017, In: Souls. 19, 3, p. 328-341 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Serialization 100%
  • Black Death 90%
  • death 51%
  • homicide 32%
  • Murder 32%
  8 Scopus citations
• 2016

  Afro-Asian Solidarity through Time and Space: Roads Taken and Not Taken

  Onishi, Y., Dec 8 2016, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies. Taylor and Francis, p. 342-354 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Bla(n)ckness and the illogics of black teenage motherhood

  Williamson, T. L., Sep 1 2016, In: New Centennial Review. 16, 2, p. 97-122 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life

  Williamson, T. L., Oct 2016, Fordham University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  18 Scopus citations

• The role of ethnicity in political formation in Kenya: 1963-2007

  Okediji, T. O. & Siguru, W. J., Jan 1 2016, Dissent, Protest and Dispute in Africa. Taylor and Francis, p. 133-151 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2015

  Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi’s Art-Making as Spiritual Labor

  Onishi, Y. & Gardner, T-S., 2015, Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 57 75 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Exploiting regression-discontinuity design to estimate peer effects in college - the case of class attendance

  Chen, Q., Okediji, T. & Guoqiang, T., 2015, In: Economics Bulletin. 35, 3, p. 1-10 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Peer Effects 99%
  • Attendance 81%
  • Classroom Experiments 30%
  • Midterms 29%
  • Proportion 27%

• Exploiting Regression-Discontinuity Design to Estimate Peer Effects in College - The Case of Class Attendance

  Chen, Q., Okediji, T. & Guoqiang, T., 2015, In: Economics Bulletin. 35, 3, p. 1563-1571 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Peer Effects 99%
  • Attendance 81%
  • Classroom Experiments 30%
  • Midterms 29%
  • Proportion 27%
  1 Scopus citations

• In the Life: Black Women and Serial Murder

  Williamson, T. L., Mar 2015, In: Social Text. 33, 1, p. 95-114

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2014

  Cannibal writes: Eating others in Caribbean and Indian ocean women’s writings

  Githire, N., Jan 1 2014, University of Illinois Press. 244 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Indian Ocean 100%
  • Women's Writing 97%
  • eating behavior 77%
  • metaphor 69%
  • writer 68%
  12 Scopus citations

• Incentive matters! - The benefit of reminding students about their academic standing in introductory economics courses

  Chen, Q. & Okediji, T. O., Jan 1 2014, In: Journal of Economic Education. 45, 1, p. 11-24 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Introductory Economics 100%
  • Student Performance 83%
  • Incentives 63%
  • incentive 46%
  • Midterms 31%
  12 Scopus citations

• Quasi-experimental evidence of peer effects in first-year economics courses at a Chinese university

  Chen, Q., Tian, G. & Okediji, T. O., Oct 5 2014, In: Journal of Economic Education. 45, 4, p. 304-319 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Peer Effects 100%
  • Public Universities 56%
  • Economic Education 55%
  • Nonlinearity 52%
  • Economics 39%
  4 Scopus citations

• Transformatory, community based teaching about race

  Brewer, R. M., Jan 1 2014, Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Adding Context to Colorblindness. Springer Netherlands, p. 159-169 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Teaching 100%
  • racism 40%
  • student 34%
  • justice 33%
  • history 25%
  1 Scopus citations

• Tyler Perry and the (Mis)Representation of Christian Morality

  Williamson, T. L., 2014, Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions. Palgrave McMillan, p. 203-16

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• What is behind class attendance in college economics courses?

  Chen, Q. & Okediji, T. O., Apr 1 2014, In: Applied Economics Letters. 21, 6, p. 433-437 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Attendance 100%
  • Economics 47%
  • Student Performance 36%
  • Midterms 20%
  • Regression Discontinuity 18%
  2 Scopus citations

• Who Is Killing Us

  Williamson, T. L., 2014, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. SUNY Press, p. 65-71

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2013

  The new Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans forged solidarity with Japan

  Onishi, Y., Jan 1 2013, Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem. University of Minnesota Press, p. 127-156 30 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  1 Scopus citations

• Transpacific antiracism: Afro-Asian solidarity in 20th-century black America, Japan, and okinawa

  Onishi, Y., Jan 1 2013, New York University Press. 243 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Anti-racism 100%
  • Okinawa 96%
  • Solidarity 77%
  • Asia 49%
  • Japan 46%
  50 Scopus citations
• 2012

  21st-Century Capitalism, Austerity, and Black Economic Dispossession

  Brewer, R. M., 2012, In: Souls. 14, 3-4, p. 227-239 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • late capitalism 100%
  • Late Capitalism 90%
  • Dispossession 83%
  • Austerity 81%
  • Capitalism 67%
  10 Scopus citations

• Case studies 8. community organizing

  Callero, P. L., Keithley, E., Katz-Fishman, W., Brewer, R. M., Scott, J., Willis, C., Anders, C., Stoecker, R. & Oldenburg, R., Jan 1 2012, Public Sociology: Research, Action, and Change. Sage Publications Inc, p. 271-297 27 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• On twenty-first century social transformation: Class, nation, gender and race in a period of revolution and capitalist crisis

  Brewer, R. M., 2012, In: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 11, 1, p. 11-26 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Liberation 100%
  • liberation 72%
  • gender 71%
  • Thinking 68%
  • twenty first century 65%
• 2011

  Black women's studies: From theory to transformative practice

  Brewer, R. M., Mar 2011, In: Socialism and Democracy. 25, 1, p. 146-156 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  3 Scopus citations

• Social fragmentation and economic growth: Evidence from developing countries

  Okediji, T. O., Mar 1 2011, In: Journal of Institutional Economics. 7, 1, p. 77-104 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Economic Growth 100%
  • Fragmentation 92%
  • Developing Countries 56%
  • Ethnic Diversity 54%
  • Fractionalization 40%
  4 Scopus citations

• Social Fragmentation and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries

  Okediji, T. O. & Okediji, T. O., Mar 2011, In: Journal of Institutional Economics. 7, p. 77-104

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  4 Scopus citations

• The Female Pioneer in Monique Agénor‟s L‟Aïeule de l’isle Bourbon

  Githire, N. R., 2011, In: The French Review. 84, p. 36-48

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Unity of Theory and Practice: The US Social Forum and Movement Building for Social Transformation

  Brewer, R. M., Katz-Fishman, W. & Scott, J., 2011, Public Sociology. Nyden, P. (ed.). Sage Publications

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2010

  Review of Richard Iton, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

  Mayes, K. A. & Mayes, K. A., 2010, In: The Political Science Quarterly. Spring

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Social Forum Process: The Praxis of Gender, Race, Class, Sexualities

  Brewer, R. M. & Brewer, R. M., 2010, Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices. Buono, R. D. & Fasenfest, D. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers, p. 57-72

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The empire bites back: Food politics and the making of a nation in Andrea Levy's works

  Githire, N., Jun 2010, In: Callaloo. 33, 3, p. 857-873 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
  10 Scopus citations

• The Empire Bites Back: Food Politics and the Making of a Nation in Andrea Levy‟s Works

  Githire, N. R., 2010, In: Callaloo. 33, p. 857-873

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The social forum process and the Praxis of race class, gender and sexualities

  Brewer, R., Jan 1 2010, Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices. Dello Buono, R. A. & Fasenfest, D. (eds.). Entomological Society of Canada, p. 57-72 16 p. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences; vol. 19).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  5 Scopus citations

• The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement

  Brewer, R. M., Brewer, R. M. (ed.), Karides, M. (ed.), Katz-Fishman, W. (ed.), Scott, J. (ed.) & Lovelace, A. (ed.), 2010, Chicago, Il.: ChangeMaker Publications.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book