Books

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo213447492.html

Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215144/free-beaches

The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469628721/the-land-was-ours/

Studies

African American Outdoor Recreation: A National Historic Landmarks Theme Study

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=7475063

Articles

“From Commons to Capital: The Creative Destruction of Coastal Real Estate, Environments, and Communities in the US South,” Transatlantica, special issue “Places and Cultures of Capitalism,” 2 (2020), https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.16278

“Capitalizing on the Urban Fiscal Crisis: Predatory Tax Buyers in 1970s Chicago,” Journal of Urban History, 44 (May 2018), 382-401

"Unconscionable: Tax Delinquency Sales as a Form of Dignity Taking," Chicago-Kent Law Review, 92 (2017), 905-35

“Investing in Distress: Tax Delinquency and Predatory Tax Buying in Urban America,” Critical Sociology, 43 (March 2017), 199-219

“The Power to Destroy: Property Tax Discrimination in Civil Rights-Era Mississippi,” Journal of Southern History, 82 (Aug. 2016), 579-616

“Fear of an Open Beach: Public Rights and Private Interests in 1970s Coastal Connecticut,” Journal of American History, 102 (Sept. 2015), 433-62

“The Sunbelt’s Sandy Foundation: Coastal Development and the Making of the Modern South,” Southern Cultures, 20 (Fall 2014), 24-42

“The ‘Negro Park’ Question: Land, Labor, and Leisure in Pitt County, North Carolina, 1920-1930,” Journal of Southern History, 79 (Feb. 2013), 113-42

“Sunbelt by the Sea: Governing Race and Nature in a Twentieth-Century Coastal Metropolis,” Journal of Urban History, 38 (May 2012), 488-508

“The Political Work of Leisure: Class, Recreation, and African American Commemoration at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1881–1931,” Journal of Social History, 42 (Oct. 2008), 57-77

“‘The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness’: Steamboat Excursions, Pleasure Resorts, and the Emergence of Segregation Culture on the Potomac River, 1890–1920,” Journal of American History, 94 (March 2008), 1108-36

Essays in Edited Collections

"The Short End of Both Sticks: Property Assessments and Black Taxpayer Disadvantage in Urban America," in Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century, ed. Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams (University of Chicago Press, 2019), pp. 189-217

“Numbers and New Negroes at the Beach: At Work and Play Outside the Black Metropolis,” in Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem, ed. Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), pp. 335-60