Refereed Journal Articles

2007. “The Afro-Asiatic Floating World: Post-Soul Implications of the Art of iona rozeal brown.”  African American Review 41.4: 655-666.

2007. “These—Are—the ‘Breaks’: A Roundtable Discussion on Teaching the Post-Soul Aesthetic.” African American Review 41.4: 787-804.

2006. “ ‘The Girl Isn’t White’:  New Racial Dimensions in Octavia Butler’s Survivor.”  Extrapolation 47.1: 35-50.

2004. “Racial Discourse and Black-Japanese Dynamics in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring.” MELUS 29.3/4: 379-396.

2003. “Chinatown Black Tigers: Black Masculinity and Chinese Heroism in Frank Chin’s Gunga Din Highway.” Ethnic Studies Review 26.1: 67-86.

Book Chapters

2006. “When Were We Colored?: Blacks, Asians and Racial Discourse.” In Blacks and Asians: Crossings, Conflict and Commonality. Ed. Hazel McFerson.  Durham: Carolina Academic Press,   59-77.

2006. “Panthers and Dragons on the Page: The Afro-Asian Dynamic in The Black Aesthetic.”  In The Black Urban Community:  From Dusk ‘Till To Dawn. Ed. Gayle T. Tate and Lewis A. Randolph. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 427-437.

2006. “ ‘A Small Part of a Much Larger Story’: The Survival of Leonard Peltier.” In The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Susan M. Glisson.  Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 289-308.

Book Reviews

2012. Lan Dong. Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the United States.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.  American Studies Journal 52:1

2008. Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen. Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007.  MELUS 33.4: 215-217.

2004. Paquet, Sandra Pouchet. Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002; Henderson, Carol E. Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002;  Bland, Sterling Lecater. Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000. American Literature 76.3: 608-610.