Participant Info
- First Name
- Kendra
- Last Name
- Boyd
- Country
- United States
- State
- 30
- dr.kendra.boyd@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Rutgers University - Camden
- Website URL
- sites.rutgers.edu/kendra-boyd/
- Keywords
- African American history, business history, urban history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden, and previously worked as an assistant professor at York University. I hold a Ph.D. in African American History and United States History from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and a B.S. in Business Administration from Wayne State University. Currently, I am writing a book on African American business and urban renewal in Detroit, Michigan during the Great Migration era.
- Recent Publications
Article
“A ‘Body of Business Makers’: The Detroit Housewives League, Black Women Entrepreneurs, and the Rise of Detroit’s African American Business Community,” Enterprise & Society, September 2020. (Winner of the 2021 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians)
Co-Edited Volume
Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945, co-edited with Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University Press, 2020).
Book Chapters
“Old Money: Rutgers University and the Political Economy of Slavery in New Jersey,” co-authored with Miya Carey and Christopher Blakley, in Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, ed. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University Press, 2016).
“His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History,” co-authored with Jesse Bayker and Christopher Blakley, in Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, ed. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University Press, 2016).
Encyclopedia entries
“National Black Economic Development Conference (Black Manifesto)” in Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings, ed. Akinyele Umoja et al. (ABC-CLIO, 2018).
“Nathan Wright, Jr.” in Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings, ed. Akinyele Umoja et al. (ABC-CLIO, 2018).
- Media Coverage
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 5, 8
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Migration & Immigration, Race, Urban History, Women