Research
Books
Monographs
Chronicling Stankonia: the Rise of the Hip Hop South. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2021.
Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South. New York: Peter Lang Press, 2017
Edited Collections
An OutKast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South. Athens (GA): UGA Press, 2021.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Sonic Sage in Little Africa: a Report from Tulsa, OK.” Global Hip Hop Studies 1.1 (Summer 2020) : 197-200.
“An Experiment in Teaching OutKast and the Hip Hop South” – south: a scholarly journal 50.2 (Spring 2018): 105-113.
“Pedagogies of Music, Politics, and Race: a Roundtable Discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association” – Journal of Popular Music Studies 30.3 (2018): 17-44.
“More than Country Rap Tunes: Hop Hop’s Impact on the Post-Civil Rights American South” (co-authored with Courtney Terry and Stephanie Evans) – Phylon: The Clark Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture 54.1 (2017): 3-10.
“Of the Wings of Traplanta: (Re)Historicizing W.E.B. Du Bois’ Atlanta in the Hip Hop South” (co-authored with Seneca Vaught) – Phylon: The Clark Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture 54.1 (2017): 11-27.
“Re-Imagining Slavery in the Hip-Hop Imagination” – south: a scholarly journal 49.1 (Spring 2017): 3-24.
“How I Use #BlackLivesMatter as an Entry Point and a Disruption Tool” – Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 15.1 (2016): 290 – 299.
“Awkwardly Hysterical: Theorizing Black Girl Awkwardness and Humor in Social Media” – Comedy Studies 6.2 (2015): 148-153.
“A Look In Our Lives: The 4991 Series and Black Women’s Narratives as Working Cultural Memories” – ADA: Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology Issue 6 (2015).
“Getting Off at the 13th Floor: Rap Genius and Archiving 21st Century Black Cultural Memory” – Journal of Ethnic American Literature Issue 4 (2014): 86-98.
“Contextualizing Hip Hop Sonic Cool Pose in 21st Century Rap Music” Current Musicology 93 (Spring 2012): 57-72.
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
“Respite, Refuge, and Remembering” – Southern Cultures 28.2 (Summer 2022): 2-5.
“Da Art of Speculatin’ – Fireside Magazine (Fall 2020): 63-66.
“A Dirty South Kind of Healing.” In Wildsam Atlanta Field Guide. Ed. Taylor Bruce. Wildsam Press, 2020: 94-97.
“Outta the Souf.” In A Measure of Belonging: New Writers of Color on the American South. Ed. Cinelle Barnes. Spartanburg: Hub City Press, 2020: 111-119.
“Ghosts in My Blood” – Southern Cultures 25.1 (Spring 2019): 138-145.
“Blood and the Rut” – Bitter Root #3 (Backmatter, Winter 2019).
“Smelling Like Outside” – Southern Glossary #4 (Summer 2017): 4-7.
“Confessions of a Former Food Segregationist” – Gravy Quarterly (Summer 2017): 22-25.
“Sop It Dry: Or, How to Make Country Black Girl Magic” – Gravy Quarterly (Fall 2016): 38-41.
“Country Notes by Country Folks” – Oxford American Magazine (Winter 2015): 67-69.
