Public Scholarship
As a historian and Black Studies scholar, Johnson researches black diasporic freedom struggles from slavery to emancipation. As a digital humanist, Johnson explores ways digital and social media disseminate and create historical narratives, in particular, comparative histories of slavery and people of African descent. As a black feminist media maker, Johnson’s praxis is “accountable to the Kitchen Table.”
“‘Are These the Bones of Blacks?’ An African American Social Construction of Justice | Book Forum–Alondra Nelson’s The Social Life of DNA.” Somatosphere, January 2018 http://somatosphere.net/2018/01/book-forum-alondra-nelson.html
“The Fragility of Solidarity: Family History and Political Identity,” Bitch Media, September 28, 2017, https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/fragility-solidarity
“Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora – AAIHS.” Book Forum on the Scholarship of Gerald Horne. African American Intellectual History Society Blog, June 7, 2017. http://www.aaihs.org/gerald-hornes-insurgent-african-diaspora/
“The Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage – AAIHS.” Book Forum on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. African American Intellectual History Society Blog, March 6, 2017. http://www.aaihs.org/the-moral-challenge-of-the-middle-passage/
Johnson Interviews Alexis Pauline Gumbs. “‘We Need Your Freedom’: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs – AAIHS.” Black Perspectives, December 13, 2016. http://www.aaihs.org/we-need-your-freedom-an-interview-with-alexis-pauline-gumbs/.
“‘Yet Lives and Fights’: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction – AAIHS,” November 12, 2016. http://www.aaihs.org/yet-lives-and-fights-riots-resistance-and-reconstruction/
“The Love Note You Write as the World Burns Down #LastIsAVerb.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, September 23, 2016. http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2016/09/23/the-love-note-you-write-as-the-world-burns-down-lastisaverb/
“‘Concede Nothing’ – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later.” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, September 12, 2015. http://aaihs.org/concede-nothing-how-to-remember-a-storm-ten-years-later/
“Nothing Is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls.” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, July 12, 2015. http://aaihs.org/nothing-is-impossible-black-history-and-black-futures-as-a-flag-falls/
Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, July 5, 2015. http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2015/07/05/maafa-reflections-and-pre-thoughts/
“Time, Space, and Memory at Whitney Plantation,” African American Intellectual History Society Blog March 14, 2015. http://aaihs.org/time-space-and-memory-at-the-whitney-plantation/
“#FemFuture, History & Loving Each Other Harder.” Postcolonial Digital Humanities. Accessed November 14, 2014. http://dhpoco.org/blog/2013/04/18/femfuture-history-loving-each-other-harder/
“My OAH Tribute to Stephanie M. H. Camp.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog. April 18, 2014. http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2014/04/18/my-oah-tribute-stephanie-m-h-camp-deborah-gray-white/
“Doing and Being Intellectual History: #Formation as Curated by Black Women.” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, February 12, 2016. http://www.aaihs.org/doing-and-being-intellectual/
See also: “#Formation as Curated by Black Women.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, February 10, 2016. http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2016/02/10/formation-as-curated-by-black-women/ with a full archive of responses
#Lemonade: A Black Feminist Resource List.” (co-authored with Janell Hobson) African American Intellectual History Society Blog, May 12, 2016. http://www.aaihs.org/lemonade-a-black-feminist-resource-list/
Queen Ya Ya of the Washitaw Nation Is The Mardi Gras Indian Of #Lemonade.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, April 28, 2016. http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2016/04/28/queen-ya-ya-of-the-washitaw-nation-is-the-mardi-gras-indian-of-lemonade/
“Thinking About the ‘X.’” Blog. African American Intellectual History Society Blog, December 12, 2015. http://aaihs.org/thinking-about-an-x/
“Uses of the @ Sign, Part II / Usos Del Signo @ (arroba), Segundo Parte.” The LatiNegrxs Project. Posted November 14, 2014. http://lati-negros.tumblr.com/post/52360236521/uses-of-the-sign-part-ii-usos-del-signo
“Leaving St. Louis x Thank You #docnowcommunity.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, August 23, 2016. http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2016/08/23/leaving-st-louis-x-thank-you-docnowcommunity/
“Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track).” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, July 12, 2016. http://www.aaihs.org/top-five-in-bad-times-bonus-track/
“Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production.” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, April 12, 2016. http://www.aaihs.org/thinkingblackdiaspora/
“Doing the Work.” Princeton Re:Sponse on Medium, October 26, 2015. https://medium.com/focus-series/doing-the-work-e31abfbcfea1
“Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica.” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, October 12, 2015. http://www.aaihs.org/black-geographies-and-the-gallows-in-jamaica/
“Black Love Post-Death.” Princeton Re:Sponse on Medium, September 23, 2015. https://medium.com/focus-series/black-love-post-death-cef524ac3132
“Charnesia Corley & a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus.” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, August 13, 2015. http://aaihs.org/charnesia-corley-the-blkwomensyllabus-storify/
“Sex and Slavery: An Incomplete Reading List.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, July 2, 2015. http:/dh.jmjafrx.com/2015/07/02/sex-and-slavery-an-incomplete-reading-list/
“Dispatches from Shondalandia by a Slavery Historian (Vol. 2).” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, February 12, 2015. http://aaihs.org/dispatches-from-shondalandia-from-a-slavery-historian-vol-2/
“Fury and Joy: Feminism at the Kitchen Table.” Women reVamped, November 14, 2014. http://womenrevamped.org/2014/11/14/fury-and-joy-feminism-at-the-kitchen-table/
“Small Chunks Go Down Easier (ft. Scrivener) #writing.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog. Accessed December 1, 2014. http://dh.jmjafrx.com/2013/03/15/small-chunks-go-down-easier-ft-scrivener-writing/
