Prison as a Border. (in progress)

Editor, and Co-Author with Angela Y. Davis, Sandra Baringer, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, David Theo Goldberg, Avery Gordon, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Prison Industrial Complex: Keywords. (under contract)

Co-Author, Charlene Mitchell: An Autobiography. (in progress)

Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology. Duke University Press (forthcoming).

Editor, Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1992; New York: New Press, 1999.

Articles

“Stranger Inside and Out: Black Subjectivity in the Women-in-Prison Film,” in Harry Elam and Kennell Jackson, eds., Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Black Performance and Black Popular Culture University of Michigan Press (under review).

“Interview” and “The Highs and Lows of Black Popular Culture,” in Charles Rowell, ed.,Talking Theory/Thinking Race: Interviews with Theorists in African-American Literary and Cultural Studies. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

“Michael Joo,” in Elaine Kim and Margo Machida, eds., Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian American Issues in the Contemporary Visual Arts. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003

Co-author with Angela Y. Davis, “Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization and Punishment,” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture Vol. 26 No. 4; Summer, 2001.

“A New York Story,” catalogue essay for the exhibition Inclusion/Exclusion. Graz, Austria. 1997.

“Rita Dove” and “Jamaica Kincaid” (literary biographies) in Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History New York: Macmillan Library Reference. 1996.

“Missionary Position” in Rebecca Walker, ed., To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor/Doubleday. 1995.

“Race and Racism: A Symposium,” Social Text. Vol. 42. Spring, 1995