Dr. Jamie Walker, Author & Professor

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Refereed Journal Publications

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2007), “James Brown, The Godfather of Soul, Dies at 73,” Black Arts Quarterly.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2004), “Manifesto for My Soul (Poem),” BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review.

Magazines and Newsletters

      

·        Walker, Jamie D. “Only Love Can Heal Wounds: Race, Class, and Gender Oppression in Tyler Perry's  

         For Colored Girls,” About…Time, August 2011.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Meet the First Lady: Michelle Obama,” About… Time, March 2009., Jamie D.


·        Walker, Jamie D. “An Aesthetic of Hope: Barack Obama and the Presidency,” About… Time, March 2009.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Too Much Protein?: Re-Examining the Benefits of Soy and Whey,” Heart & Soul    

          magazine (December/January 2008)


·         Walker, Jamie D. “African Americans Figure Prominently in Presidential Debate,” About...Time 35.3 

          (2007): 34-37.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Vacation Getaway: Cancun, Mexico,” Heart & Soul magazine (Feb/March 2007)


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Interview with Sonia Sanchez,” Heart & Soul magazine (June/July 2006)


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Broadway’s The Color Purple Empowers Many,” About…Time 33.4 (Spring 2006);

          reprinted in The Washington Informer and The African American Literature Book Club Online. 


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Playwright August Wilson Loses Battle with Liver Cancer,” About…Time 33.3 (2005):      

          30-31.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Thousands Bid Farewell to Luther Vandross,” About…Time 33.2 (2005): 32-25.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Ossie Davis: Remembering Him with Love,” About…Time 33.1 (2005): 20-23.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Why I Write,” Sable Literary Magazine, 5.1 (Fall 2004): 29-36.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “The Healing Power of Poetry: In Praise and Support of Amiri Baraka," Trombones 

          (Spring 2003): 8.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Making Music, Making Babies: A Sneak Peak into the Lives of Parents Who   

          Perform.” The Kindred Papers, 1.1 (2003): 10.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Heart’s Day Celebration Honoring Sonia Sanchez Touches Many,” Trombones 

          (Spring 2002): 2.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Sonia Sanchez: The Poet as Teacher,” Trombones (Fall 2001): 6

 

Books

  • Walker, Jamie D. (Forthcoming), Editor, Sonia On My Mind: Critical Perspectives on Sonia Sanchez, with a Foreword by Maya Angelou, Introduction by Joyce Ann Joyce, and Afterword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Forthcoming.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2011), Micheaux’s Women: A Critical Look at Oscar Micheaux’s Leading Ladies.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2011), The Mother Daughter Bond: Re-Examining Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2006), Signifyin’ Me: New and Selected Poems. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2005), 101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp.

 

Chapters in Books

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2007), “Two Pieces (Poems)” in Gumbo for the Soul: The Recipe for Literacy in the Black Community, Beverly Black Johnson, editor. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2005), “The Power of Preparation,” in It Doesn’t Take a Genius: Five Truths to Inspire Genius in Every Student, Tommie L. Lindsey and Randall McCutcheon, editors. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2006), “When He Demands All My Poems Be Written to Liberate Black America,” in Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, DuEwa M. Frazier, editor. New York: Lit Noire Publishing, 2006.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2005), “It Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now: Interview with Jamie Walker,” in I Woke Up and Put My Crown On: The Project of 76 Voices, Rochelle D. Hart, editor. Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2005.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2005), “When I Got It,” in It Doesn’t Take a Genius: Five Truths to Inspire Genius in Every Student, Tommie L. Lindsey and Randall McCutcheon, editors. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2004), “Interview with Esther Cooper Jackson,” (co-founder of Freedomways magazine),” in A Wealth of Wisdom:Legendary African American Elders Speak, Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint, editors. New York: Atria Books.

  • Walker, Jamie D. (Forthcoming), “A Poem for Dead Hearts,” in Are All the Women Still White?: Globalizing Women’s Studies

 

Film Festival Screenings

  • Black Hollywood and Education Resource Center’s Sista's are Doin It for Themselves Film Festival (World Premiere); Hollywood, CA (April 2010)
  • Philadelphia Black Pride Film Festival; Philadelphia, PA (April 2010)
  • The Boston LGBT Film Festival; Boston, MA (May 2010)
  • The Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project 4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Origination); San Francisco, CA (June 2010)
  • The San Francisco Film Society’s 34th Annual Frameline LGBT Film Festival; San Francisco, CA (June 2010)
  •  Oakland "Mo Butta" Pride; Oakland, CA (Friday June 2010)
  • South Carolina Black Pride Film Festival; NC (June 2010)
  • Chicago Black Pride Film Festival; Chicago, IL (July 2010)
  • The Black Women’s Arts Festival; Philadelphia, PA (July 2010)
  • Shades of Pride Film Festival; Raleigh, NC (July 31, 2010)
  • Indiana Black Pride; Indiana (August 2010)
  • Michigan Womyn's Music & Film Festival; MI (August 2010)
  • The Oakland LGBT Film Festival; Oakland, CA (August 2010)
  • Nashville Black Pride Film Festival; Nashville, TN (October 2010)
  • Reel Sista’s of the African Diaspora Film Festival; New York (August 2010)
  • Portland's African American Film Festival; Portland, OR (November 2010)
  • Savannah LGBT Film Society; Savannah, GA  (December 2010) 
  • Washington, DC's Brown Sugah Bash (June 2011) 

 

Newspapers and Web-based Articles

  •       Walker, Jamie D. "Hot and Bothered: How Black LGBT Filmmakers Defy the Odds While Resisting   
              Objectification and Marginalization," Film Courage, July 2011.   

  •       Walker, Jamie D. “Duke Ellington High School Performs The Wiz,” The Washington Informer, 14—20 Feb    
              2008.

  •       Walker, Jamie D. “The Vagina Monologues to Raise Money Against Domestic Violence,” The Washington     
               Informer,  24—30 . Jan. 2008.

  •        Walker, Jamie D. “Race for the Cure March Proves Successful,” The Washington Informer, 6 June 2006.

·         Walker, Jamie D. “Sonia Sanchez and Ten Grandmothers Acquitted of Defiant Trespassing,” African American Literature Book Club Online, 1 December 2006.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Thousands Bid Farewell to Luther Vandross,” The Washington Informer, 14 July 2005.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Broadway’s ‘The Color Purple’ Empowers Many,” The Tennessee Tribune (Forthcoming); Reprinted with permission in The San Francisco Bayview, The Ebony-Brevard Times, and The Washington Informer. 


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Playwright August Wilson Battles Liver Cancer,” The Afro-American, 1 Sept. 2005.


·         Walker, Jamie D. “Remembering Ossie Davis, With Love,” The Washington Informer, 16 Feb. 2005.; Reprinted with permission in The Tennessee Tribune and About . . . Time magazine.

·         Walker, Jamie D. “Furious Flower Conference Celebrates African American Poetry.” The New York Amsterdam News, 7-13 Oct. 2004: 23. Reprinted with permission on AALBC.com. 

  •        Walker, Jamie D. “The Full Moon of Sonia.” The Final Call, 17 Aug. 2004: 7.

·         Walker, Jamie D. “Sonia Sanchez Begins Full Moon Tour at National Black Arts Festival.” The New York Amsterdam News, 5—11 Aug. 2004: 21. Reprinted with permission in The Final Call.


  •        Walker, Jamie D. “Sisterspace Fights Eviction,” The Final Call, 15 June 2004: 7.

·         Walker, Jamie D. “Former Essence Editor-in-Chief Opens Inn for Black Writers,” The New York Amsterdam News, 16—22 Aug. 2004. Reprinted with permission in The Tennessee Tribune, 4—10 April 2004 and The African American Literature Book Club Online.

·         Walker, Jamie D. “Home-Going Celebration for Daughter of Amina and Amiri Baraka Touches Many,” The San Francisco Bayview, 20 Aug. 2003. Reprinted with permission in The Amsterdam News, 21—27 Aug. 2003: B1 and Chickenbones:   An Online Literary Journal.

·         "Dorothy Height Retires Expenses on Mortgage at Birthday Bash," The Tennessee Tribune, 4—10 April 2002: A1.  Reprinted with    permission in The Howard Hilltop and The Black World Today.

·         “Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint Launch National Visionary Leadership Project,” The Tennessee Tribune, 14—20 March 2001: A1. Reprinted with permission in The Spelman Spotlight, The Howard Hilltop, and The Black World Today.      

 

Presentations and Workshops

  • "Filmmaking for Social Justice: Teaching Students the Art of the Documentary," UC Berkeley Social Justice Symposium (October 2011). 

  • Justice via Arts: Documentary Making for Social Justice Final Film Screenings," Santa Clara University, Organized and hosted panel of student filmmakers involved in social justice work (June 2011).

  • "Strategies for Success: Interdisciplinary Discussion on Studying Diversity and Social Justice in Graduate Education," Panel Participant at the (De) constructing Diversity in the Bay Area Conference, Santa Clara University, April 2011. 

  • "Race and Resistance: Strategic Ways Women Faculty of Color Mentor while Lifting as We Climb," Women of Color Faculty Luncheon, Keynote Speaker, Santa Clara University, April 2011. 

  • “Women Professors in African American Studies,” Howard University, Washington, DC, 2008                 (panel with Dr. Denise King-Miller and Dr. Michele Simms-Burton)

  • “A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak,” The Schomburg Center, New York, 2004 (panel with Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Esther Cooper Jackson, David Driskell, et al; Recorded on CSPAN)

  • “From the Black Arts Movement to Hip Hop,” The Tenderloin Book Fair, San Francisco, CA., 2004       (panel with Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Askia Tourè, et al) 


  • “Gwendolyn Brooks' In Montgomery," Karibu Bookstore, Hyattsville, MD, 2004                              (poetry presentation and panel reading with Tony Medina and Shani Jamila)

  • “Featured Poet: A Tribute to Sonia Sanchez," Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2004

  • “Being Professionally Active While Teaching,” Howard University, Washington, DC., 2002           (presentation for the annual “Teaching Associates & Assistants Workshop” in the Graduate School)

  • “Keynote Speaker,” The Circle of Friends Book Club Extravaganza, Atlanta, GA, 2002.                 (Circle of Friends was featured twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show)

  • “Developing Healthy Self-Esteem in Black Girls,” The Teen Extreme Summer Jam, Washington, DC, 2002.

  • “Keynote Speaker, 19th Century Black Women Abolitionists” Calvary Episcopal Church, Washington, DC, 2002. (Presentation of first book for The Association for the Study of African American Life and History)

  • “Panel Participant: African American Literature” at The Black Caucus of American Librarians, 2002. Association Fifth National Conference of African-American Librarians in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. (panel with Kwame Alexander, Tajuana Butler, Timmothy McCann, and Victor McGlothin)

  • “The Construction of Whiteness” at Howard University in Washington, DC, 2002 (panel featuring Toni Morrison and artwork by her son, Slade Morrison)

  •  “The Politics of Motivational and Non-Fiction Writing,” The Second Annual African American Literature Conference, University of Maryland (College Park), 2002  

 

Book Reviews

  • Rev. of Mother Love: Reinventing A Good and Blessed Future For Our Children by Esther Davis-Thompson. Mosaic (Summer 2001).




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