Ph.D.s and Pigtails

Ph.D. in multicultural American literature. My blog is a resource guide for girlhood and childhood history, feminism, Civil Rights history, pop culture, book reviews, and more! Research interests include girlhood, citizenship, transnational feminism, education, & media. In other words, I drink a lot of coffee and read big books & Teen Vogue. Find my reviews and more here: https://phdsandpigtails.com/

Voting Rights and History VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights

A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)

Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo

Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth about Voting in America

Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

One (Wo)Man, One Vote, Volume 1: A History of the Fight for Voting Rights in America

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Race, Anti-Racism, and Civil Rights VIEW LIST (35 BOOKS)

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

Dear Martin

Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Dear Justyce

The Round House

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

The Hate U Give

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning

The Day Tajon Got Shot

How It Went Down

Internment

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Books Reviewed VIEW LIST (34 BOOKS)

Concrete Rose

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

This Is My America

Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century

The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

White People Really Love Salad

The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today's College Campuses

The Astonishing Color of After

Darling Rose Gold

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Sourdough

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Diverse Books for Kids VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)

The Long Ride

Watch Us Rise

Let Them Play

My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Name Jar

A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

What Can a Citizen Do? (Kids Story Books, Cute Children's Books, Kids Picture Books, Citizenship Books for Kids)

Antiracist Baby Board Book

Let the Children March

Before She Was Harriet

The Day You Begin

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

V Is for Voting

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Girlhood Studies VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

The Bluest Eye

Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap

The Disappearance of Childhood

Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature

Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman

My Publications VIEW LIST (4 BOOKS)

Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee

Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First Century Programming

Veronica Mars and Philosophy: Investigating the Mysteries of Life (Which Is a Bitch Until You Die)

Bullying in Popular Culture: Essays on Film, Television and Novels

Feminism VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)

Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature

The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture

A History of U.S. Feminisms

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America

Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism and Globalization