Participant Info
- First Name
- LaShawn
- Last Name
- Harris
- Country
- (Country)
- State
- MI Michigan
- harri859@msu.edu
- Affiliation
- Michigan State University
- Website URL
- http://history.msu.edu/people/faculty/lashawn-d-harris/
- Keywords
- 20th Century, African American Women, Labor, Crime
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy (Urbana: Universityof Illinois Press, 2016)
Women and Girls in Jeopardy by His False Testimony:’ Charles Dancy, Urban Policing, and Black Women in New York City during the 1920s, Journal of Urban History, Vol. 44, No 3 (May 2018)
“‘The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian’: Southern Black Women, Crime & Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia” Journal of Social History, Vol. 47, Issue 4 (Summer 2014): 922-94
“Marvel Cooke: Investigative Journalist, Communist & Black Radical Subject” Journal for the Study of Radicalism,Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 2012): 91-126
“Dream Books, Crystal Balls, and “Lucky Numbers”: African American Female Spiritual Mediums in Harlem, 1900-1945.” Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 35, Issue 1 (January 2011): 1-30
“Running with the Reds: African American Women and the Communist Party during the Great Depression.”Journal of African American History, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 21-40
“Madame Queen of Policy: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and African American Women’s Participation in Harlem’s Informal Economy,” Black Women, Gender & Families,Vol. 2 No. 2 (Fall 2008): 53-76
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
