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Brian Purnell, “No Place Like Home: Black Communities and Black Cultures in New York City since the 1970s,” in Johanna Fernandez, Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Mason Williams, editors, New York City Since the 60s (manuscript submitted to book editors).

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Brian Purnell, “ ‘Living and Working in a World of Overlapping Diasporas’: Black New Yorkers’ History in the Metropolis Since the 1970s,” in Jeffrey O. Ogbar, editor, Black Movement: African Americans Urban History Since 1970 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

 

Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis, “Introduction – Histories of Racism and Resistance, Seen and Unseen: How and Why to Think about the Jim Crow North,” in The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North (New York: New York University Press, 2019), 1-42.

 

Brian Purnell, “Barkley Hendricks’s Northern Lights, 1976,” in Joachim Homann, ed., Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts (New York: Prestel, 2019), 172-173.

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Brian Purnell, “Harlem, U.S.A.: Address of the Long Civil Rights Movement,” in Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol, edited by Andrew Fearnley and Daniel Matlin, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), 201-220.

 

__________, “Unmaking the Ghetto: Community Development and Persistent Social Inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia,” in The Ghetto in Global History, 1500 to the Present edited by Wendy Goldman and Joe W. Trotter, (New York: Routledge, 2017), 256-274.

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__________, “ ‘What We Need is Brick and Mortar:’ Race, Gender, and Early Leadership of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation,” in The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America, edited by Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2012), 217-244.

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__________, “Spotlight on New York’s Law Against Discrimination,” in New York Archives (Spring 2011), 10-13.

__________, “ ‘Revolution Has Come to Brooklyn:’ The Campaign against Discrimination in the Construction Trades and Growing Militancy in the Northern Black Freedom Movement,” in Black Power at Work, edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), 23-47.

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__________, “Interview with Dr. John Hope Franklin” Journal of African American History, (94:3), 407-421.

__________ and Oneka LaBennett, “The Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP) and Approaches to Scholarship About/For Black Communities,” Introduction to Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, July 2009 (32:2), 7-23.

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__________, “Desegregating the Jim Crow North: Bronx African Americans and the Fight to Integrate the Castle Hill Beach Club – 1953-1963,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, (32:2), 47- 78.

__________, “ ‘Taxation without Sanitation is Tyranny’: Civil Rights Struggles Over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York During the Fall of 1962,” in Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, July 2007 (31:2), 61-88. (Peer review) ** Reprinted in Clarence Taylor, editor, Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 52-76.

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__________, “ ‘Drive Awhile for Freedom’: Brooklyn CORE’s 1964 Stall-In and Public Discourses on Protest Violence,” in Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komizi Woodard (eds.), Ground Work: Local Black Freedom Movements in America (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 45-75.