Faculty Publications
Africana Studies faculty members are outstanding, engaged scholars, researchers, and artists.
We know that significant scholarly and artistic achievement in our faculty translates to the highest level of undergraduate teaching, and that participation in research is one of the most powerful educational experiences we offer our students. The opportunity to carry on active lives of scholarship and artistic work while committing themselves fully to teaching undergraduates—this is what draws so many outstanding people to Bowdoin's faculty. Here is a small selection.
Brian Purnell
“Unmaking the Ghetto: Community Development and Persistent Social Inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Philadelphia,” in The Ghetto in Global History: 1500 to the Present (Routledge, 2017)
Brian Purnell
“‘What we Need is Brick and mortar:’ race, gender, and early leadership of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation,” in The Business of Black Power (University of Rochester Press, 2012)
Tess Chakkalakal
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs. Edited by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History. Ohio University Press. New African Histories Series. November, 2012.
Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Illinois Press, 2011
“‘Revolution Has Come to Brooklyn:’ The Campaign against Discrimination in the Construction Trades and Growing Militancy in the Northern Black Freedom Movement,” in Black Power at Work (Cornell University Press, 2010)
"Wedded to the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of Segregation" in Representing Segregation, Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division, SUNY Press 2010
"African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin." in A Companion to African American Literature. Ed. Gene Andrew Jarett, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa. (University of Wisconsin Press, Dec. 2005).
Editor, African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North (Routledge, 2008)
L'interoralité caribéene: le mot conté de l'indentité (vers un traité de estiétique caribéene), Editions Universitaires Européennes, Saabrücken, Germany: 2011