Biography
LaShawn Harris is a Professor of History at Michigan State University and former Managing and Book Review Editor for the Journal of African American History (JAAH). She is a historian of U. S. history with a focus on African American, Black Women’s, and urban histories. Harris’s scholarly essays have appeared in Journal of Social History, Journal of Urban History, andSOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. Her first monograph Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners:
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“My Mother was My Everything’: Police Murder, Family Loss & Deferred Dreams,” Langston Hughes Review, Fall 2022
“Recovering the Lives of City Women,” Journal of African American History, Vol. 106, no 1.(Winter 2021): 109-113
“#SayHerName: Black Women, State Sanctioned Violence & Resistance,” The American Historian (Organization of American Historian (OAH) Magazine), September 2020: 30-38
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