Books:
Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and The American Metropolis
Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in The Age Before Brown
Governing the American State: Congress and New Federalism, 1877-1929
Other Publications:
Johnson K. Indexing Negro main streets: Black business directories and the development of urban spaces. Urban History. Published online 2025: 1-23. doi:10.1017/S0963926825100436
“Indexing Negro Main Streets: Black Business Directories and the Development of Urban Spaces.”Urban History, 2025, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926825100436.
“We Are From Nairobi (#panthershit): Black Power Spatial Imaginaries in Silicon Valley,” Metropolitics, 17 October 2023. https://metropolitics.org/We-Are-From-Nairobi-panthershit-Black-Power-Spatial-Imaginaries-in-Silicon.html
Douds, Kiara Wyndham, R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, and Kimberley Johnson. “Visualizing Variation in Majority-Black Suburbs in the United States.” Socius 7 (2021): 23780231211065521.
Jacobs, Alan M., Tim Büthe, Ana Arjona, Leonardo R. Arriola, Eva Bellin, Andrew Bennett, Lisa Björkman et al. “The qualitative transparency deliberations: Insights and implications.” Perspectives on Politics 19, no. 1 (2021): 171-208. “The neo-Redemption Era? APD in the Age of #Black Lives Matter,” Politics, Groups and Identities Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2018. “From Politics to Protest: African American Voting in Virginia in the pre-Civil Rights Movement Era, 1940-1951,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 31, Issue 2 (October 2017): 218-237.
“Racial Orders, Congress, and the Agricultural Welfare State, 1865-1965” Studies in American Political Development (October 2011) 25: 143-161.
“Political Hair: Occupational Licensing and the Regulation of Race and Gender Identity.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 8 (2011): 417-440.
“Community Development Organizations, Participation and Accountability: The Harlem Urban Development Corporation and the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.” Annals: Journal of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Race and Community Development Issue, July 2004 (Vol. 594: 109-124).
“Modernity, Public Administration and the Disappearance of the American States: A Necessary Development?” Administration and Society, Spring 2003.
Review, The Invention of the Underclass: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loic Wacquant. American Journal of Sociology, May 2024 vol. 129, no. 6.
Review, The Struggle and the Urban South: Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore before the Movement, by David Taft Terry. Journal of Southern History, vol. 87, no. 3, 2021, p. 545-546. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/soh.2021.0114.
Review, Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy, by Domingo Morel. National Review of Black Politics 1 April 2021; 2 (2): 136–138. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nrbp.2021.2.2.136
Review, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2021). Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ https://www.aaihs.org/online-roundtable-keeanga yamahtta-taylors-race-for-profit/
“Black Suburbanization,” in The Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies, Oxford University Press, October 2020. “Wadleigh High School: The Price of Segregation,” In Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, New York: Columbia University Press, November 2019.
“Swimming the Multiple Currents: The Political and Racial Time of Barack Obama’s Presidency,” in Looking Back on Barack Obama’s Presidency, Wilbur Rich, ed. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019.
“The Color Line and the State: Race and American Political Development,” The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development, Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Rick Valelly, eds. Oxford University Press, 2016. “Black Suburbanization: American Dream or the New Banlieue?” The Cities Papers, Social Science Research Council, July 2014 http://citiespapers.ssrc.org/black-suburbanization-american-dream-or-the-new-banlieue/
“The ‘First New Federalism’ and the Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929,” The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy, Oxford Handbooks of American Politics, ed. Robert Durant. Oxford University Press, 2010. “The First New Federalism and the Development of the Modern American State.” In The Unsustainable American State, eds. Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“Jim Crow Reform and the Democratization of the South.” In Race and American Political Development, eds. Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian Warren. New York: Routledge, 2008. “Hurricane Katrina, Racial Federalism and the American State: A Tale Foretold?” In The Federal Nation: Perspectives on American Federalism, eds. Iwan W. Morgan and Philip J. Davies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Kimberley S. Johnson 