19th- and 20th-century social and cultural history
Interests
African Americans in upstate New York
African American intellectuals in the 20th-century United States
Publications
"The Philadelphia Tribune and the Persistence of Black Republicanism during the Great Depression" (Pennsylvania History, Spring 1998)
"The Hopes and Fears of the Black Middle Class" (The World and I, February 1999)
The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle Class Ideology and Culture 1960-1990 (University Press of Mississippi, 1994)
To Do Good and To Do Well: Middle Class Blacks During the Depression in Philadelphia, 1929-1941 (Garland Publishers, 1993)
Articles and reviews in Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Journal of Negro History, Pennsylvania History, Southern Cultures, Western Journal of Black Studies, and Journal of Southern History
