Publications

Johnson W. "Guns in the Family". Boston Review. 2018.

Johnson W, Rogers J. "No excuse for forgetting black St. Louis". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2018.

Johnson W. "No Rights Which the White Man Is Bound to Respect". Boston Review. 2017.

Johnson W. "What Do We Mean When We Say, ’Structural Racism’?: A Walk Down West Florissant Avenue, Ferguson, Missouri". Kalfou. 2016;3(1):36–62.

Johnson W. "To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice". Boston Review. 2016.

Johnson W. "Ferguson’s Fortune 500 Company". The Atlantic. 2015.

Johnson W. "Brute Ideology"--Review of Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life and David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation. Dissent. 2014;61(4):127–132.

Johnson W. "Skinned"--Review of Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity. The Times Literary Supplement. 2014.

Johnson W. "Allegories of Empire: Django/Dorner/blackness/blowback". Transition. 2013;(112):13–21.

Johnson W. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 2013. p. 560.

Johnson W. "King Cotton’s Long Shadow". The New York Times. 2013.

Johnson W. "Agency: A Ghost Story". In: Follett R, Foner E, Johnson W, editors. Slavery’s Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 2011. pp. 8–30.