Cheryl Higashida works on U.S. ethnic and radical literatures, sound studies, and media and social movement histories. Her essays have appeared in American Literature, American Quarterly, Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans, Neocolonial Fictions: U.S. Literatures of the Global Cold War, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Her book, Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995, examines the radical feminist tradition that emerged from the post-World War II Harlem-based Left. She is currently researching social movements, radio, and race in the 20th century.
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American Studies, African American literature, Asian American literature, media studies, gender and sexuality studies
