1. Allan Bérubé, My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History (University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
2. Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
3. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, eds., Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing (Verso, 2022).
4. Dayo F. Gore, Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War (New York University Press, 2011).
5. Geleana Drew Alston and Jovita M Ross-Gordon, “Moranda Smith—From Tobacco Plant Worker, to Local Union Educator, to First African American Woman to Head a Southern Regional Union,” in No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950, eds. Susan Imel and Gretchen T Bersch (Information Age, 2014), 245-253.
6. Miriam Frank, Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America (Temple University Press, 2014). 
7. Robert Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Gratitude to these writers and theorists for shaping my archival work on this project:

1. Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016). “I point to these practices of Black annotation and Black redaction as more examples of wake work. The orthographies of the wake require new modes of writing, new modes of making-sensible.” 
2. José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York University Press, 2009).
3. Tina Campt, Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017).
4. Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Norton, 2019), and Venus in Two Acts (Small Axe, 2008, reprinted by Cassandra Press, 2021).