Writings
Book Chapters
“Ghosts of the Past: Municipal Debt and Racial Governance in the New South,” in Histories of Racial Capitalism, ed. Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy (CUP).
“The American Racial State and the Question of Property,” in The New Materialism: Between Culture and Economy in U.S. Historiography (The University of Chicago Press, expected 2022).
Reviews
Review of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamattha Taylor (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), in Enterprise and Society (April 2020): 1-4.
“Money and the Ghetto, Money in the Ghetto,” Journal of Urban History (December 2019).
“Who Segregated America?” in Think in Public: A Public Books Reader, ed. Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019).
“The Racial Wealth Gap and the Problem of Historical Narration,” Process: a blog for American History (June 2017).
Essays and Op-eds
“What History Can Teach Banks About Social Justice and Change,” New York Times, May 3, 2021, B5.
“What Does it Really Mean to Invest in Black Communities?” The Nation, July 13/20, 2020.
"Debt and the Underdevelopment of Black America," Roundtable 3: Race and Money, Just Money, June 15, 2020.
Op-ed: "The Fed Could Undo Decades of Damage to Cities. Here's How," Washington Post, April 27, 2020.