Lashawn Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lashawn Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lashawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“My mother was my everything”
On December 9, 1984, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer fatally shot New York mother of three Sharon Walker. Police violence not only killed Walker: The bullet lodged in her body harmed all those who loved her, particularly her three teenage children. Broadening conversations on police violence, this article examines the diverse ways in which police violence and parental loss impact the lives of a less familiar community of police b…
Recovering the Lives of City Women
M atthew V az . Running the Numbers
Matthew Vaz’s Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling offers an important conversation on urban America and the origins of state-operated lotteries. Vaz joins an impressive cohort of historians, including Douglas Flowe (Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York [2020]), Shannon King (Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro …
African American Women and The Carceral State
African American Women and The Carceral State LaShawn Harris (bio) Talitha LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xi+ 257 pp.; ISBN 978-1-4696-2247-7 (cl); 978-1-4696-3000-7 (pb); 978-1-4696-2760-1 (epub). Sarah Haley. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xi + 337 pp.; ISBN…
The Legend of the Black Mecca
Maurice Hobson’s The Legend of the Black Mecca is a major contribution to historiographies centered on the American South, urban African Americans, and the working class. Hobson joins an impressive cohort of historians whose recent scholarship explores the multifaceted lives and experiences of urban black Southerners during the post–World War II era. Using oral history, archival records, newspapers, and the rap lyrics of “Dirty South” hip-hop gro…
Keona K. Ervin. Gateway to Equality
Gateway to Equality is a major contribution to African American labor historiography. Keona K. Ervin joins an impressive cohort of historians, including Shannon King, Leah Platt Boustan, and Clarence Lang, whose recent publications explore African Americans’ multifaceted labor practices and the diverse ways in which black labor impacted urban labor markets, city landscapes, and the struggle toward race, gender, and class equality. At the same tim…
Beyond the Shooting
This article recovers the life of Bronx resident Eleanor Bumpurs from historical obscurity, moving beyond her tragic death and departing from disability and legal studies that primarily focus on her killing and New York Police Department officer Stephen Sullivan’s 1987 bench trial
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. This book illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, …
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Race and Real Estate
Black Silent Majority
Scholars including Heather Thompson, Khalil Muhammad, and Michelle Alexander have produced thought-provoking studies that critically explore the complex historical and political roots of the American carceral state and the collateral damage associated with imprisonment. Most notably, in 2010 the legal scholar Alexander published The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness. Alexander maintains that legislative victories of th…
New Perspectives on Criminal (In)Justice and Incarceration
Marvel Cooke
and Everyday Labor during the Harlem Renaissance, 74-86. 30. Dorman, Back to Harlem: Abstract and Everyday Labor during the Harlem Renaissance, 76-77. 31. Wintz, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance , 29. 32. Wintz, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance 18, 29. 33. Christopher Gray, Streetscapes / 409 Edgecombe Avenue; An Address that Drew the City's Black Elite, New York Times, July 24, 1994; Sugar Hill: All Harlem Looks Up to 'Folks on t…
Running with the Reds
Running with the Reds
Beyond the Shooting
This article recovers the life of Bronx resident Eleanor Bumpurs from historical obscurity, moving beyond her tragic death and departing from disability and legal studies that primarily focus on her killing and New York Police Department officer Stephen Sullivan’s 1987 bench trial
Black Silent Majority
Scholars including Heather Thompson, Khalil Muhammad, and Michelle Alexander have produced thought-provoking studies that critically explore the complex historical and political roots of the American carceral state and the collateral damage associated with imprisonment. Most notably, in 2010 the legal scholar Alexander published The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness. Alexander maintains that legislative victories of th…
Running with the Reds
Marvel Cooke
and Everyday Labor during the Harlem Renaissance, 74-86. 30. Dorman, Back to Harlem: Abstract and Everyday Labor during the Harlem Renaissance, 76-77. 31. Wintz, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance , 29. 32. Wintz, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance 18, 29. 33. Christopher Gray, Streetscapes / 409 Edgecombe Avenue; An Address that Drew the City's Black Elite, New York Times, July 24, 1994; Sugar Hill: All Harlem Looks Up to 'Folks on t…
New Perspectives on Criminal (In)Justice and Incarceration
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. This book illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, …
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Race and Real Estate
Black Silent Majority
Scholars including Heather Thompson, Khalil Muhammad, and Michelle Alexander have produced thought-provoking studies that critically explore the complex historical and political roots of the American carceral state and the collateral damage associated with imprisonment. Most notably, in 2010 the legal scholar Alexander published The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness. Alexander maintains that legislative victories of th…
Keona K. Ervin. Gateway to Equality
Gateway to Equality is a major contribution to African American labor historiography. Keona K. Ervin joins an impressive cohort of historians, including Shannon King, Leah Platt Boustan, and Clarence Lang, whose recent publications explore African Americans’ multifaceted labor practices and the diverse ways in which black labor impacted urban labor markets, city landscapes, and the struggle toward race, gender, and class equality. At the same tim…
Beyond the Shooting
This article recovers the life of Bronx resident Eleanor Bumpurs from historical obscurity, moving beyond her tragic death and departing from disability and legal studies that primarily focus on her killing and New York Police Department officer Stephen Sullivan’s 1987 bench trial
African American Women and The Carceral State
African American Women and The Carceral State LaShawn Harris (bio) Talitha LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xi+ 257 pp.; ISBN 978-1-4696-2247-7 (cl); 978-1-4696-3000-7 (pb); 978-1-4696-2760-1 (epub). Sarah Haley. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xi + 337 pp.; ISBN…
The Legend of the Black Mecca
Maurice Hobson’s The Legend of the Black Mecca is a major contribution to historiographies centered on the American South, urban African Americans, and the working class. Hobson joins an impressive cohort of historians whose recent scholarship explores the multifaceted lives and experiences of urban black Southerners during the post–World War II era. Using oral history, archival records, newspapers, and the rap lyrics of “Dirty South” hip-hop gro…
Recovering the Lives of City Women
M atthew V az . Running the Numbers
Matthew Vaz’s Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling offers an important conversation on urban America and the origins of state-operated lotteries. Vaz joins an impressive cohort of historians, including Douglas Flowe (Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York [2020]), Shannon King (Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro …
“My mother was my everything”
On December 9, 1984, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer fatally shot New York mother of three Sharon Walker. Police violence not only killed Walker: The bullet lodged in her body harmed all those who loved her, particularly her three teenage children. Broadening conversations on police violence, this article examines the diverse ways in which police violence and parental loss impact the lives of a less familiar community of police b…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Race, History, and American Society (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · African american (4 works)