Scholarly Articles

Popular Lit

“Continental Divide: Money, Power, and Corporate Politics in the Field of African Studies in America 1957 – 1969” Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry Vol. 34 (2007 – 2008) pp. 59 - 74

Book Review: Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves by Marie Jenkins Schwarz H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (April 2018) https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51224

Book Review: Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic by Wendy Wilson-Fall International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 49, no. 2 (2016), 292

Bruce and Clark: Conversations That Might Have Happened

I published this conversation first on a web site called Archive of Our Own and to this day it is far and away my most popular, with over 4,000 hits, and 88 kudos. One commenter shared that it "was like being a fly on the wall of the Batcave."

Or you can read Bruce and Clark here in chapter form with comments

at Archive of Our Own

Ororo and T'Challa: Conversations That Might Have Happened

Storm and the Black Panther ruling over Wakanda in postcolonial Africa. 856 hits, 8 kudos

Or you can read Ororo and T'Challa here in chapter form

Dinah and Diana: Conversations That Might Have Happened

Black Canary bonding with Wonder Woman. 747 hits, 11 kudos

Or you can read Dinah and Diana here in chapter form

Barry, Hal, and Ollie: Conversations That Might Have Happened

The Flash, Green Lantern and Green Arrow do a team-up. 1711 hits, 46 kudos

“New World Slavery and the Natural Rights Debate” Journal of Caribbean History Vol. 49, no. 2 (Dec. 2015), pp. 119–132

Slave Communication Networks and Their Role in Facilitating Resistance Tactics: The Dutch Guianas, 1763–1823 [unpublished]

American Mythology:

Comic Book Fiction and Shared Cultural Narrative

Spain’s 1753 Plot to Free Dutch Slaves; or, Why There’s Always Been a Fuzzy Border between Guyana and Venezuela [unpublished]

Uptown: An Exegesis [unpublished]

Or you can read Barry, Hall, and Ollie here in chapter form

A People's History of Westeros

What if Howard Zinn had written George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire?

Or you can read A People's History of Westeros here in chapter form

Woodson, Thomas and Jemima (1790 - 1879) and (1783 - 1868) Oxford African American Studies Center January 2020 https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.78219

“Steps Into the Organic Unknown: How Eighteenth-Century Dutch Slaves Turned a Foreboding Amazon Jungle into a Welcome Refuge” Wadabagei: The Journal for Scholars, Students, Community Leaders and Sustainable Developers Vol. 17, no. 1 (Fall 2016), pp. 90–112

Loyalty in the Context of Rebellion: Race, Identity, Agency, and Change in the Dutch Atlantic

The Good Black Night [unpublished book manuscript, 2002]

Noir-ish mystery about a UCLA computer programmer who moonlights as a private detective. Not super good but some nice moments.

Scholarly Articles

Popular Lit

“Continental Divide: Money, Power, and Corporate Politics in the Field of African Studies in America 1957 – 1969” Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry Vol. 34 (2007 – 2008) pp. 59 - 74

Book Review: Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves by Marie Jenkins Schwarz H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (April 2018) https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51224

Book Review: Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic by Wendy Wilson-Fall International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 49, no. 2 (2016), 292

Bruce and Clark: Conversations That Might Have Happened

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I published this conversation first on a web site called Archive of Our Own and to this day it is far and away my most popular, with over 4,000 hits, and 88 kudos. One commenter shared that it "was like being a fly on the wall of the Batcave."

Or you can read Bruce and Clark here in chapter form with comments

at Archive of Our Own

Ororo and T'Challa: Conversations That Might Have Happened

​

Storm and the Black Panther ruling over Wakanda in postcolonial Africa. 856 hits, 8 kudos

Or you can read Ororo and T'Challa here in chapter form

Dinah and Diana: Conversations That Might Have Happened

​

Black Canary bonding with Wonder Woman. 747 hits, 11 kudos

Or you can read Dinah and Diana here in chapter form

Barry, Hal, and Ollie: Conversations That Might Have Happened

​

The Flash, Green Lantern and Green Arrow do a team-up. 1711 hits, 46 kudos

​

“New World Slavery and the Natural Rights Debate” Journal of Caribbean History Vol. 49, no. 2 (Dec. 2015), pp. 119–132

Slave Communication Networks and Their Role in Facilitating Resistance Tactics: The Dutch Guianas, 1763–1823 [unpublished]

American Mythology:

Comic Book Fiction and Shared Cultural Narrative

Spain’s 1753 Plot to Free Dutch Slaves; or, Why There’s Always Been a Fuzzy Border between Guyana and Venezuela [unpublished]

Uptown: An Exegesis [unpublished]

Or you can read Barry, Hall, and Ollie here in chapter form

A People's History of Westeros

What if Howard Zinn had written George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire?

Or you can read A People's History of Westeros here in chapter form

Woodson, Thomas and Jemima (1790 - 1879) and (1783 - 1868) Oxford African American Studies Center January 2020 https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.78219

“Steps Into the Organic Unknown: How Eighteenth-Century Dutch Slaves Turned a Foreboding Amazon Jungle into a Welcome Refuge” Wadabagei: The Journal for Scholars, Students, Community Leaders and Sustainable Developers Vol. 17, no. 1 (Fall 2016), pp. 90–112

The Good Black Night [unpublished book manuscript, 2002]

Noir-ish mystery about a UCLA computer programmer who moonlights as a private detective. Not super good but some nice moments.