Publications
Books:
L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004) read introduction
Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (forthcoming 2009, Oxford University Press)
Articles:
"Renewal Through Retail? The Impact of Corporate Retail Investment in South Los Angeles (Northridge: Center for Southern California Studies, 2008) Full Text
“California in the Sexual Revolution,” in ed. Deverell, Blackwell Companion to California History, forthcoming
"Straight Into Compton: American Dreams and Urban Nightmares in a Southern California Suburb," American Quarterly 56.3 (2004) 583-605. Full Text
“Excavating the Postwar Sex District in San Francisco ,” Journal of Urban History 32 (2006):355-379.
"A Simple Quest for Dignity: African American L.A. Since World War II." in City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles, eds. Schiesl and Dodge (Claremont: Regina Press, 2006)
“‘You Understand My Condition:' The Civil Rights Congress in the Los Angeles African American Community, 1946-1952,” Pacific Historical Review 67 (May 1998): 233-257.
“Rethinking Black Migration: A Perspective From the West,” in Scott E. Casper, ed. , Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850-2000 ( Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2001): 185-211.
“Battle on the Home Front: African American Shipyard Workers in World War II Los Angeles ,” California History (Fall 1996): 250-263.
"The Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots," in Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Association (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000): 248-249.
"Los Angeles Riots, 1992," in Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History (New York: Facts on File, 2009)
Book Reviews:
Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (Univeristy of North Carolina, 1998) in Law and History Review, v. 18, n. 3, Fall 2000: 712.
Eric Arneson , Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (Harvard University Press, 2001) in Labor History , v. 43, n. 2 (May 2002)
Lawrence B. De Graaf , Kevin Mulroy , and Quintard Taylor, eds. Seeking El Dorado : African Americans in California (University of Washington, 2001) on Humanities-Net , October, 2001
Tom Sitton and William Deverell, eds. Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (University of California Press, 2001) in Pacific Historical Review 71 (November 2002): 690-691.
James Thomas Keane, Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles (Historical Society of Southern California, 2001) in Pacific Historical Review 72 (May 2003): 312-313.
Clark Davis and David Igler , eds . The Human Tradition in California in Southern California Quarterly 85 (4): 481-482
Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton University Press, 2003) in Urban History
Douglas Flamming, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) in Southern California Quarterly
Matthew C. Whitaker, Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West in Pacific Historical Review
Ruth Milkman, L.A Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the US Labor Movement, in Business History Review
Editorial/Mainstream Media
"Corporate Retailers and the American Ghetto: A Perspective from L.A," The Next American City 9 (Fall 2005)
“Coffeehouses’s Beneficial Jolt” Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2004, B19
“Black/Latino Economic Struggle Overrated,” Daily News, July 2006.