The faculty of the Department of African American Studies are active and impactful researchers who contribute to the scholarly body of literature in a number of disciplines and fields. The following selections represent a small portion of the books, chapters, articles, and reviews published by the prolific group of scholars.
This page contains links to publications of the faculty of the department of African American Studies at Saint Louis University which are available in full-text, one-click access. Full faculty profiles contain a more complete list of faculty publications, which may require requests through Interlibrary Loan (Also called ILLIad).
Assistant Professor
African American Studies
Doss, Adeyemi. 2017. “Trapped within the White Gaze: A Duboisian Approach to Understanding the Existential Burden of Being a Black Man in America.” Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences. ProQuest Information & Learning. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2016-58397-080&site=eds-live.
Doss, Adeyemi. “The Burden of Public Blackness and the Promise of Black Privacy.” The North Meridian Review 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.7825/2769-5115.1039.
Doss, Adeyemi. “‘When We Wear a Mask’: Public Blackness as Art ‘When We Wear a Mask’: Public Blackness as Art .” The North Meridian Review 4, no. 1 (December 22, 2023). https://doi.org/10.7825/2769-5115.1148.
Joint appointment in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Gbadegesin, Olubukola A. 2009. “Response to F. Ugiomoh, ‘Art and Nationalism.’” African Arts 42 (2): 7–8. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aft&AN=505444118&site=eds-live.
Gbadegesin, Olubukola A. 2009. “Art and Nationalism in Nigeria.” African Arts 42 (2): 7–8. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=37601291&site=eds-live.
African Print Cultures by Associate Professor, History
Department Chair, African American Studies
Fenderson, Jonathan B., Anthony Ratcliff, and Christopher M. Tinson. 2007. “‘Rethinking Pan-African Studies for the 21st Century.’” Black Scholar 37 (4): 2. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tfh&AN=31510626&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M. 2007. “‘The Voice of the Black Protest Movement:’ Notes on the Liberator Magazine and Black Radicalism in Early 1960s.” The Black Scholar 37 (4): 3. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.178654693&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M. 2008. “Nelson Peery, Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary.” The Journal of African American History 93 (4): 592. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsglr.A195285057&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M. 2010. “Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta.” The Journal of African American History 95 (3–4): 467. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsglr.A246259294&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M. “‘Harlem, New York! Harlem, Detroit! Harlem, Birmingham!’: Liberator Magazine and the Chronicling of Translocal Activism.” Black Scholar 41, no. 3 (January 1, 2011): 9–16. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbl&AN=vdc.100053906056.0x000001&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M., and Carlos REC McBride. 2013. “Introduction to Special Issue : Hip Hop, Critical Pedagogy, and Radical Education in a Time of Crisis.” The Radical Teacher, no. 97 (October): 1–9. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.48694404&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M. 2016. Insurrectional Knowledge: Antiprison Africana Pedagogy, Ethnic Studies, and the Undoing of the Carceral State. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgvr&AN=edsgcl.7128400031&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M. 2017. “Race towards Freedom: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Tradition of Fugitive Black Study.” Equity & Excellence in Education 50 (3): 294–99. doi:10.1080/10665684.2017.1336501.
Tinson, Christopher M. 2018. “Held in Trust by History: Lerone Bennett Jr., Intellectual Activism, and the Historical Profession.” Journal of Pan African Studies 12 (7): 175. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsglr.A573095322&site=eds-live.
Tinson, Christopher M. 2018. “Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States.” Journal of American Ethnic History 37 (4): 90. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.552305570&site=eds-live.
Radical Intellect by Assistant Professor
African American Studies
Director of Teaching Well Institute for School Transformation (TWIST)
School of Education
Thomas, Clarice. 2017. “Prelude to Prison: Student Perspectives on School Suspension, by Marsha Weissman.” Journal of Negro Education, January 1. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbl&AN=RN612864122&site=eds-live.
Cross, Stephanie Behm, and Clarice Thomas. 2017. “Mitigating First Year Burnout: How Reimagined Partnerships Could Support Urban Middle Level Teachers.” Middle Grades Review 3 (1). https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1154836&site=eds-live.
Thomas, Clarice. 2018. “Negotiating Words and Worlds: An Autoethnography of Linguistic Identity Development.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 31 (7): 612–25. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbl&AN=vdc.100064598358.0x000001&site=eds-live
Behizadeh, Nadia, Clarice Thomas, and Stephanie Behm Cross. 2019. “Reframing for Social Justice: The Influence of Critical Friendship Groups on Preservice Teachers’ Reflective Practice.” Journal of Teacher Education 70 (3): 280–96. doi:10.1177/0022487117737306.
Many, Joyce E., Ruchi Bhatnagar, Carla Tanguay, Shaneeka Favors-Welch, Clarice Thomas, Susan Ophelia Cannon, Tamra Ogletree, et al. 2019. “State-Wide Implementation of EdTPA in Preparation for High-Stakes Testing: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Concerns of EdTPA Coordinators.” Education Policy Analysis Archives / Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas / Arquivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas 27 (121/122): 1–26. doi:10.14507/epaa.27.4460.
No One Can Arrest Our Dreams: Black men storying a path towards educational justice and freedom by Joint appointment in the Department of African American Studies and Department of History
Thompson, Katrina. 2017. “America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk by Megan Pugh (Review).” African American Review 50 (1): 82–85. doi:10.1353/afa.2017.0010.
Thompson Moore, Katrina. 2021. “The Wench: Black Women in the Antebellum Minstrel Show and Popular Culture.” The Journal of American Culture 44 (4): 318–35. doi:10.1111/jacc.13299.
Moore, Katrina Thompson, and Kwakiutl L. Dreher. 2023. “Introduction: Black Women Dancing through Time and Space.” Journal of American Culture 46 (2): 125–29. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbl&AN=vdc.100186414087.0x000001&site=eds-live.
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