Selected Publications

Journal Articles

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews, Book Chapters and Other Publications

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

Opinion, “Can K-pop Break the U.S.?” The Korea Herald. October 3, 2011.  <http://www.koreaherald.com/opinion/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20111003000316>

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

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

“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, 2006.  427-437.

“ ‘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, 2006.  289-308.

“ ‘Genius Does Not Grow On Trees’:  Antecedents of Spoken Word.”  Black Praxis:  Special Edition:  Spoken Word in the 21st Century.  Ed. Traci E. Currie. 2004.  10-18.

Book review, 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. In American Literature 76.3 (2004): 608-610.

Review of In His Own Voice: The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Herbert Woodward Martin and Ronald Primeau.  Ohioana Quarterly. 46.2 (2003): 134-136.

Review of Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore: A History of Love and Violence among the African American Elite by Eleanor Alexander.  Ohioana Quarterly 46.3 (2003): 291-293.

Review of Water Street by Cheryl Wilkerson.  Ohioana Quarterly 47.1 (2004): 28-29.

Selected Online Publications

Feature Article, “Lawsuits and Rice Wreaths: The Business of Kpop.”  May 3, 2012.

Editorial, “Why Blackface is Wrong in Kpop.”  March 23, 2012

Editorial, “Your Host Tonight Will Be. . . : The Role of the MC in Korean Television Shows.” February 12, 2012

Feature Article, “You’re In the Army Now: The Changing Impact of Enlistment on Kpop.” hellokpop. January 22, 2012.

Editorial, “The Once and Future Kpop Concert.” hellokpop.com December 4, 2011.

Editorial, “People Not Products.” hellokpop.  September 12, 2011.

Editorial, “Babies, Tweens and Grandmas: Unsung Fans of Kpop.”  hellokpop.com.  August 29, 2011.

Editorial, “Kpop Success in the U.S.: At What Cost?”  hellokpop.com.  August 16, 2011.

Editorial, “Style Over Substance: Weighty Matters in Kpop.”  hellokpop.com  August 1, 2011.

Editorial, “One Agency to Rule Them All?”  hellokpop.com.  July 14, 2011.

Editorial, “Gentlemen, Gangsters and the Guys Next Door: The Many Faces of the Male Kpop Idol.”  hellokpop.com.  July 2, 2011.

Editorial, “Why Kpop NEEDS Shinhwa To Make A Comeback.”  hellokpop.com.  June 22, 2011.

Editorial, “Blind To The Fact:  Recent Criticism of Kpop.”  hellokpop.com.    June 16, 2011.

Selected Digital Essays, High Yellow (professional blog)

Dancing in the Street: Choreography in Kpop, March 22, 2012.

On Pitting Kpop Idols Against Non-Idols.  January 24, 2012.

Selected Digital Essays, KPK: Kpop Kollective (research website)

“Talking About Asians Behaving Badly: Fan Reaction to the Block B-Jenny Hyun-MBC Blackface Controversies.”  March 31, 2012.

“The Unsung and the Unsaid in Kpop.” January 1, 2012.

“Super Junior Plays Rivendell: On Suspicious News Reporting in Kpop.” Co-written with Kaetrena Davis Kendrick., November 26, 2011.

“An Informal Review of Sun Jung’s Korean Masculinities, Part 4, Or Who Are You Calling a Cult?” August 25, 2011.

“Why I Do Kpop Even Though Chuckleheads Keep Giving Me the Side-Eye,” July 30, 2011.

An Informal Review of Sun Jung’s Korean Masculinities: Part 2, or Why We’re Not Going to Talk About Bae Yong Joon,” July 22, 2011, July 22, 2011.

 

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