Books
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing
Apartheid. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Articles
“Extra Time: Vila Autodromo, Brazil’s Favelas, and the Contest Before the Games” Counterpunch, July 29, 2014.
“How Barack Obama Killed Trayvon Martin” Black Agenda Report (online journal), March 4, 2014
“I Could Always Feel Race Trouble . . . Never More Than Two Feet Off”: Chester Himes’s Melancholic Perception” in African American Review 43.2 (2009), 233-245.
“The City in Literature” in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction eds. Patrick O’Donnell and Justus Nieland (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
“Anzia Yezierska” in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction eds. Patrick O’Donnell and Justus Nieland (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
“‘The Love of Colour in Me’: Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers and the Space of White Racial Manufacture” MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States) 34:3 (Fall 2009), 93-114.
Aborto Verbale: Barack Obama e l’Offensa alla Paternita Nera” in Acoma 37 (Autumn 2008), 37-44.
“Barack Obama and The Abuse of Black Fathers,” Black Agenda Report (online journal) July 23, 2008
“When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong?: Pryor, Chappelle and the Comedic Politics of the Post Soul” in Richard Pryor: The Life and Legacy of a ‘Crazy’ Black Man edited by Audrey T. McCluskey (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 151-196.
“Black Conservativism” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by William A. Darity, Jr. (New York, MacMillan Publishers, 2007).
“Guantanamo: Notes on Innocence, Knowledge, and the Carceral.” Politics and Culture (online journal) edited by Michael Ryan and Amitava Kumar (2007): Issue #1.
“‘And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing’: Black Flanerie and Traumatic Realism in Wideman’s Two Cities”. Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman, edited by Bonne TuSmith and Keith Byerman, University of Tennessee Press, 2006, 221-239.
“What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter With Kansas or Why Liberal Whites Worry Black Progressives,” The Black Commentator (online journal) November 10, 2005, Issue 158.
“Dark Manhattan: Gangster Films,” in African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century edited by Phyllis R. Klotman; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003
“Hollywood Bait and Switch: The 2002 Oscars, Black Commodification and Black Political Silence (Part Two)” Black Camera (18/1) Fall 2002, Black Film Center Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington.