Research
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Neighbor Crisis Response: A Crown Heights Story.
March 2025. Narrative of a large-scale, high-profile defense Amadi Ozier organized for an elderly tenant facing extensive landlord harassment. Includes a step by step abolitionist guide on building a rapid response network.
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"Lynching Modernism: Ulysses, America, and the Negro Minstrel Abroad" - Modernism/modernity
September 2023. James Joyce’s modern, transnational representations of anti-semitism through American iconography around blackness.
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"How to Stage a Rally: A People's Field Guide" - Crown Heights CARE Collective x Crown Heights Tenant Union
November 2023. Step by step abolitionist guide for organizing creative, large-scale protests and demonstrations without police intervention.
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Bibliography: "Theater and Performance in the 19th Century" - Oxford Bibliographies
February 2021. This article focuses on primary works and criticism on the origins and evolution of African American theater culture from the late 18th century up to but not including the New Negro (or Harlem) Renaissance (c. 1920).
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Review Essay: "This Body Still Has Time: Jermaine Singleton’s Cultural Melancholy"
August 2017. Amadi Ozier on Jermaine Singleton’s Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual (2015)
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Review Essay: "African American Literature in Transition, 1750–1800"
Amadi Ozier on African American Literature in Transition, 1750–1800 ed. by Rhondda Robinson Thomas (2022)
Bibliography
In Progress.
Ozier, Amadi. Book. Humor Among Uppity Negroes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Literary Study.
Ozier, Amadi. Book chapter. “Ernest Hogan and the Ironic Bourgeois Fantasy of Black-on-Black Face.” Oxford Handbook of African American Humor Studies (under contract). Edited by Danielle Fuentes Morgan and Brittney Edmonds.
Articles and contributions to edited volumes and handbooks.
Ozier, Amadi. “Lynching Modernism: Ulysses, America, and the Negro Minstrel Abroad.” Modernism/modernity. March 2024 (also the featured article on journal’s website). [P]
Jones, Douglas and Amadi Ozier. “Theater and Performance in the 19th Century,” Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, February 2020. 10.1093/OBO/9780190280024-0091
Libraries.
C.A.R.E. Collective Virtual Zine Library. Project initiated July 2022. Hundreds of zines on themes related to police abolition, including mutual aid, arrest defense, eviction defense, and militant action, including several original zines like “How to Stage a Rally.”
Tenant Power Virtual Zine Library. Project initiated December 2024. Hundreds of zines on themes related to tenant organizing including information on strategies and tactics, occupations and blockades, rallies and protests, and the building blocks of organizing your people.
Crown Heights Tenant Union Resource Page. Project initiated February 2025. Includes information on rent strikes, building + block organizing, action planning, crisis response, eviction blockades, and NYC-specific info on rent stabilized housing.
Madison Tenant Power Resource Page. Project initiated December 2024. Includes information on researching or reporting your landlord, organizing your building, action planning, strategies, and tactics.
Book reviews.
Ozier, Amadi. “African American Literature in Transition, 1750-1800, edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas.” Early American Literature, Volume 59, Number 3, 2024, pp. 688-696. 10.1353/eal.2024.a940230 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/article/940230/pdf
Ozier, Amadi. “This Body Still Has Time: Jermaine Singleton’s Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual.” Social Text, 2017. https://socialtextjournal.org/this-body-still-has-time-jermaine-singletons-cultural-melancholy-readings-of-race-impossible-mourning-and-african-american-ritual/
Other selected publications.
Amadi, Mai, and Francis. “Neighbor Crisis Response: A Crown Heights Story.” (Digital zine; print zine.) Crown Heights Tenant Union, Brooklyn, NY, 2025.
Anonymous. “Report from Madison Tenant Power.” Tenant Voice, vol. 1, no. 3, winter 2024.
Amadi and Mai. “How to Stage a Rally: A People’s Field Guide.” Crown Heights C.A.R.E. Collective, Brooklyn, NY, 2023.
