Presented By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
DAAS African American Workshop with LaShawn Harris (Michigan State University)
"Madame Queen of Policy": Stephanie St. Clair, Harlem's Number Racket & Community Advocacy"
Position: Assistant Professor
Field: 20th Century, Cultural, Labor and Working Class, Social, Urban, Women & Gender
Education: 2007 Ph.D. Howard University, Washington, D. C.
Selected Publications:
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy, (University of Illinois Press 2016)
“‘Women and Girls in Jeopardy by His False Testimony:’ Charles Dancy, Urban Policing, and Black Women in New York City during the 1920s” (Forthcoming Journal of Urban History)
“‘The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian’: Southern Black Women, Crime & Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia” Journal of Social History, Vol. 47, Issue 4, (Summer 2014) 2015 Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH)
“Marvel Cooke: Investigative Journalist, Communist & Black Radical Subject” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Fall 2012): 91-126
“Dream Books, Crystal Balls, and “Lucky Numbers”: African American Female Spiritual Mediums in Harlem, 1900-1945.” Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 35, Issue 1, (January 2011): 1-30
“Running with the Reds: African American Women and the Communist Party during the Great Depression.” Journal of African American History, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 21-40
“Madame Queen of Policy: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and African American Women’s Participation in Harlem’s Informal Economy,” Black Women, Gender & Families, Vol. 2 No. 2, (Fall 2008): 53-76
Field: 20th Century, Cultural, Labor and Working Class, Social, Urban, Women & Gender
Education: 2007 Ph.D. Howard University, Washington, D. C.
Selected Publications:
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy, (University of Illinois Press 2016)
“‘Women and Girls in Jeopardy by His False Testimony:’ Charles Dancy, Urban Policing, and Black Women in New York City during the 1920s” (Forthcoming Journal of Urban History)
“‘The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian’: Southern Black Women, Crime & Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia” Journal of Social History, Vol. 47, Issue 4, (Summer 2014) 2015 Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH)
“Marvel Cooke: Investigative Journalist, Communist & Black Radical Subject” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Fall 2012): 91-126
“Dream Books, Crystal Balls, and “Lucky Numbers”: African American Female Spiritual Mediums in Harlem, 1900-1945.” Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 35, Issue 1, (January 2011): 1-30
“Running with the Reds: African American Women and the Communist Party during the Great Depression.” Journal of African American History, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 21-40
“Madame Queen of Policy: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and African American Women’s Participation in Harlem’s Informal Economy,” Black Women, Gender & Families, Vol. 2 No. 2, (Fall 2008): 53-76
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