Books
Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America
“Fielder makes the bold claim that racialization entails neither the annihilation of kin ties nor the simple linearity of descent.... Fielder retheorizes race as the making and breaking of kin ties." -Elizabeth Freeman
Reading Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Under contract in Oxford University Press's "Children's Classics, Critically series." Expected 2026.
Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print
"The collection pays forward the promise of theoretically charged engagements with the materials, processes, and products of African American print.” - Samantha M. Sommers
Articles
Articles listed below are grouped roughly by theme or subdiscipline.
List is incomplete while page is under construction.
African American Children’s Literature
- “African American Children’s Literature.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Oxford University Press, 2022.
- “As the Crow Flies”: Black Children, Flying Africans, and Fantastic Futures in The Brownies’ Book” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 14.3 (2021): 413-436.
- “John Brown, Black History, and Black Childhood: Contextualizing Lorenz Graham’s John Brown Books” Humanities, 11.5 (2022).
- “Black Girls, White Girls, American Girls: Slavery and Racialized Perspectives in Abolitionist and Neoabolitionist Children’s Literature” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 36.2 (2017): 323-352.
African American Periodical Studies
- “Before The Brownies’ Book“ The Lion and the Unicorn, 43.2 (April 2019): 159-171.
- “Recovery” American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism, 30.1 (2020): 18-21.
- “Embracing the Incomplete: Speculative Reading in The Curse of Caste, Minnie’s Sacrifice, and the Christian Recorder” African American Review, 55.1 (2022): 1-16.
- “Juno’s Civil War: Black Knowledge and Racial Resolution in Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste” Civil War History, 68.2 (June 2022): 178-193.
- “Race, Revision, and William Wells Brown’s Miralda” In The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature, edited by John Ernest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024): 177–90.
Race, Animals, and Species
- “Animal Humanism: Race, Species, and Affective Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism.” American Quarterly, 65.3 (2013): 487-514.
- ““No Rights That Any Body Is Bound to Respect” Pets, Race, and African American Child Readers.” Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900, (University of Minnesota Press, 2017): 164-181.
- “Black Dogs, Bloodhounds, and Best Friends African Americans and Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Literature.” In: Dominik Ohrem (ed.) American Beasts Perspectives on Animals, Animality and US Culture, 1776–1920 (Berlin: Neofelis Verlag: 2017): 153-174.
- “Chattel slavery.” Gender: Animals, MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender. Series. Ed. Juno Parreñas. Series Ed. renée c. hoogland. (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Macmillan Reference USA, 2017): 19-36.
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“Zenaida Doves and Audubon’s Black Sisters, Un Essai en Vol” Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora T135: Species (2024): 126-139.
Interracial Kinship
- ““Those people must have loved her very dearly”: Interracial Adoption and Radical Love in Antislavery Children’s Literature.” Early American Studies, 14.4 (2016): 749-780.
- ““Almost Eliza”: Genre, Racialization, and Reading Mary King as the Mixed-Race Heroine of William G. Allen’s The American Prejudice Against Color.” Studies in American Fiction, 40.1 (2013): 1-25.
- “Visualizing Racial Mixture and Movement: Music, Notation, Illustration.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 3.1 (2015): 146-155.
- “Blackface Desdemona: Theorizing Race on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage.” The Theatre Annual, 70 (2017): 39-59.
- “The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement.” In: Mary Balkun and Susan Imbarrato (eds) Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 171-185.