Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Op-Eds

“The Department Store.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press, 2014—. Article published April 17, 2024; last modified, April 17, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.892

Foreword to Black Female Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions: Strategies for Wellbeing in White Spaces and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023.

“Toys ‘R’ Us may have grown up, but the pandemic is fueling its rebirth,” Washington Post, December 12, 2022.

“Black Friday is a key moment for fighting racism and abuses in business,” Washington Post, November 26, 2021.

“‘Sears discriminated against me because of sex and race:’ African American Women Workers, Title VII and the Sears Sex Discrimination Case,” Journal of Women’s History, Spring 2021. 

“Sears’ complicated relationship with black customers,” The Baltimore Sun, Sunday, online: May 10, 2019; print: May 12, 2019).

“Consumer Boycotts,” World of Jim Crow: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, ed. Steven Reich, Greenwood Press, 2019.

“Downtown Commercial Retail Establishments,” World of Jim Crow: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, ed. Steven Reich, Greenwood Press, 2019.

“Black Christmas and American Department Stores,” The American Historian, November 2018.

“Southern Retail Campaigns and the Struggle for Black Economic Freedom” in Race and Retail: Consumption Across the Color Line, eds. Mia Bay and Ann Fabian, Rutgers University Press, 2015, 77-98.

“Shopping While Black” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society, SAGE Publications, 2015, 1473-1475.