Publications
Selected publications
- Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000 (Journal article - 2025)
- ‘Let me tell you how I see it…’: white women, race, and welfare on two Birmingham council estates in the 1980s (Chapter - 2025)
- Black Women's Groups, Life Narratives, and the Construction of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century Britain (Journal article - 2022)
- Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain (Journal article - 2022)
2025
Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000
White, J. (n.d.). Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000. Contemporary British History, 1-25. doi:10.1080/13619462.2025.2485891
Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century
Riley, C. L., Jenkins, L., Baughan, E., Beers, L., Burnett, J., Chappell, F., . . . White, J. (n.d.). Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1-22. doi:10.1017/s0080440124000161
‘Let me tell you how I see it…’: white women, race, and welfare on two Birmingham council estates in the 1980s
White, J. (n.d.). ‘Let me tell you how I see it…’: white women, race, and welfare on two Birmingham council estates in the 1980s. In C. Beaumont, E. Colpus, & R. Davidson (Eds.), Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experiences, Expertise and Activism. London: Palgrave. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64987-5_11
2024
An Appeal to Anticolonial Education at the University of Liverpool
Abu-Bakare, A., Asquith, W., Bird, G., Branchu, C., Davies, A., Gahman, L., . . . White, J. (2025). An Appeal to Anticolonial Education at the University of Liverpool. Retrieved from https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/
Sarah E. Stoller. Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2023. Pp. 304. $55.00 (paper).
White, J. (2024). Sarah E. Stoller. Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2023. Pp. 304. $55.00 (paper).. Journal of British Studies, 63(1), 268-269. doi:10.1017/jbr.2023.221
2022
Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain
White, J. (2022). Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain. TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY, 33(4), 498-521. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwac005
The Long History of Policy Brutality against Black People in Britain
White, J. (2022). The Long History of Policy Brutality against Black People in Britain. Retrieved from https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/
Britain's 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019, 288 pp., £20 (hardback), ISBN 9781526133267
White, J. (2022). Britain's 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019, 288 pp., £20 (hardback), ISBN 9781526133267. CULTURAL & SOCIAL HISTORY, 19(4), 505-507. doi:10.1080/14780038.2022.2082088
Black Women's Groups, Life Narratives, and the Construction of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
White, J. (2022). Black Women's Groups, Life Narratives, and the Construction of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century Britain. HISTORICAL JOURNAL, 65(3), 797-817. doi:10.1017/S0018246X21000492
2021
Covid-19, online workshops, and the future of intellectual exchange
Davies, A., Seaton, A., Tonooka, C., & White, J. (2021). Covid-19, online workshops, and the future of intellectual exchange. RETHINKING HISTORY, 25(2), 224-241. doi:10.1080/13642529.2021.1934290
ETHICS, WHITE SCHOLARS AND THE HISTORY OF RACE IN MODERN BRITAIN
White, J. (2021). ETHICS, WHITE SCHOLARS AND THE HISTORY OF RACE IN MODERN BRITAIN. Retrieved from https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/
Strength of our mothers
White, J. (2021). Strength of our mothers. WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW, 30(2), 343-345. doi:10.1080/09612025.2020.1727162
2020
Sisterhood and after: an oral history of the UK women's liberation movement, 1968-present
White, J. (2020). Sisterhood and after: an oral history of the UK women's liberation movement, 1968-present. EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY-REVUE EUROPEENNE D HISTOIRE, 27(5), 689-690. doi:10.1080/13507486.2020.1747846
Police, Press & Race in the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Disturbances’
White, J. (2020). Police, Press & Race in the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Disturbances’. Retrieved from https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/