Publications:
2026. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. The Power We Need Right Now: Black Sororities and Black Radical Movements of the 1970s. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
2025. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. “Not a ‘Sorority Party: Black Sororities in Defense of Themselves and Kamala Harris.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 48 (15).
2025. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. and Jalia L. Joseph “The Gendered Dimensions of Movements for Racial Justice.” Handbook of Gender and Social Activism. Ed. Jo Reger, Rachel L. Einhower, and Kelsy Kretschmer.
2024. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. “Enhancing Human Dignity Here and Around the World: The Black Sorority as International Uplift Movement.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 23 (2).
2023. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. “Black Fraternities’ and Sororities’ Social Activism”. In Angela Jones, Ed, African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
2023. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. “The National Council of Negro Women.” In Angela Jones, Ed, African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
2023. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. “Rosa Parks”. In Angela Jones, Ed, African American Activism and Politics
2022. Upton Azzam, Aisha A. “The Emmett Till Antilynching Act and the History of Antilynching Movements in the United States.” The Society Pages.
2021. Upton, Aisha A. and Jalia Joseph. “Exploring the Black Feminist Imagination.” Black Feminist Sociology. Ed. Whitney Pirtle and Zakiya Luna.
2020. Squires, Catherine and Aisha A. Upton. “Redesigning a Pocket Monument: A Reparative Reading of the 2016 $20 Bill Controversy. Racialized Media is Designed, Delivered, and Decoded. Ed. Emma Lesser New York University Press
2018. Squires, Catherine and Aisha A. Upton. “The Color of Money, or, How to Redesign a ‘Monument in Your Pocket’” at Humanity and Society.
2017. Upton, Aisha A. and Joyce M. Bell “Women’s Activism in the Civil Rights Movement.” For the Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism. Edited by Holly McCammon, Lee Ann Banaszak, Verta Taylor, and Jo Reger.
- Upton, Aisha A. and R.L. Reece “How Skin Tone Shapes Civic Engagement Among Black Americans.” Color Struck: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era. Edited by Lori Latrice Martin, Hayward Derrick Horton, Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, and Melvin Thomas.
Book Reviews
2019. Upton, Aisha A. “Heroic women of the Black freedom struggle review essay.” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.
- Upton, Aisha A. “The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race.” Humanity and Society.
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