Book Reviews
Essay Reviews
Review of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman, New Republic, April 23, 2015.
Review of The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America by Lani Guinier, Boston Review, January 13, 2015.
Review of Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty by Beth Zasloff and Joshua Steckel, Chronicle Review, March 28, 2014.
Review of The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools by Christopher and Sarah Lubienski, Boston Review, December 5, 2013. Syndicated in Business Insider, December 9, 2013.
Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James Patterson, History News Network, May 8, 2013.
Review of Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder, New Republic, April 19, 2013.
Review of Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education by Mike Rose, Education Review, April 15, 2013.
Review of Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America by William McKee Evans, Callaloo 34, no.1 (Winter 2011): 214-6.
Review of American Education: A History by Wayne J. Urban and Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr., Education Review, September 9, 2009.
Standard Gauge Reviews
Review of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 17, Education by Clarence L. Mohr (ed.), Louisiana History 55, no.1 (Winter 2014): 123-25.
Review of A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America by Stephen G. Hall, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 37, no.1 (January 2013): 179-81.
Review of Critical Rhetorics of Race by Michael Lacy and Kent Ono (eds.), Teachers College Record, January 10, 2012.
Review of In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 by Zachery R. Williams, Journal of American Studies 44, no.3 (2010): E57.
Review of Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane and Vanderbilt by Melissa Kean, History of Education Quarterly 50, no.3 (August 2010): 406-8.
Review of The Cost of Unity: African-American Agency and Education in the Christian Church, 1865-1914 by Lawrence A.Q. Burnley, Journal of African American History 95, no.1 (Winter 2010): 106-8.