Academic Works

Works in Progress

“The Intimate Face of Universal Struggle”: June Jordan’s Politics of Universal Liberation, 1964-2002 (Forthcoming Dissertation)

Published Works

“Feeling Right, in Solidarity: Place-Based Performance Loops and Anti-Gentrification in Black CambridgePort,” co-written with Dr. Kris Manjapra, in Harvard University’s Transitions: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora. (Issue 137, June 2025) (+ Boston Globe write-up about BHAC’s performance events )

“Democratizing Agentic and Epistemological Authority: The Generative Possibility Space, and Lecturing in Flux” in The Journal of Civic Media, issue 4-5. (Summer 2024)

“Black is a Country”: The Impact of the Cuban Revolution on American Black Radical Solidarities (Master’s Thesis, 2017) https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1914898644.html?FMT=ABS

Conference Papers and Other Talks

  • Conference Paper: “Counter-Hegemonic Worldmaking: June Jordan’s ‘Black Realist’ Challenge to Reaganism.” 03/27/2026. The 48th Annual Susman Conference, “Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents,” at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ
  • Conference Paper: “Black Studies as Universal Liberation: Lessons from June Jordan.” 03/12/2026. The National Council of Black Studies 50th anniversary conference in Baltimore, MD
  • Talk: “The Origins of Asian America: A Global History of Empire and Migration.” 05/08/2025, Lacey City Council Chambers in Lacey, Washington.
  • Conference Paper: “June Jordan’s Manichean Black nationalism and the concept of ‘Apocalypse.’” 03/23/2025, The GCWS Graduate Student Conference, “Liberatory Practices for Worlds in Crisis.” (MIT) 
  • Conference Paper: “In Pursuit of Universal Liberation: Black Nationalism and the Afterlives of Slavery in June Jordan’s Early Writings on Education.” 03/14/2025, The African American Intellectual History Society’s annual conference, “Slavery and its Afterlives.” (Providence, RI)

Unpublished Works

Literature Review: Transnational Solidarities and the Black Radical Tradition (2020) http://jamesikeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Literature-Review-Transnational-Solidarities-and-the-Black-Radical-Tradition-2020.docx

Comprehensive Exam Fields (Northeastern University)

Radical Intellectual History (w/ Dr. Timothy Scott Brown)

US in the World (w/ Dr. Gretchen Heefner)

Imperialism and Colonialism (w/ Dr. Heather Salter)

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