Scholarly Articles
PDFs of Select Publications
Sincere Art and Honest Science: Richard Wright and the Chicago School of Sociology
Cambridge University Press
‘Come, Let Us Reason Together’: New Research and the Public Good
PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association
What is Jim Crow?
PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association
The Harlem Renaissance and Its Indignant Aftermath
American Literary History
“To Refute Mr. Jefferson’s Arguments Respecting Us”
Early American Literature
Law, Parody, and the Politics of African American Literary History
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation
Journal of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers
New Negro Politics
American Literary History
“For Endless Generations”: Myth, Dynasty, and Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow
Southern Literary Journal
African American Noms de Plume
PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association
This Expression Shall Not Be Changed
American Literary Realism
Victim’s Guilt: Frank Yerby’s Speak Now and the “Politics” of Miscegenation
University Press of Mississippi
Loosening the Straightjacket: Rethinking Racial Representation in African American Anthologies
The University of Michigan Press
Douglass, Ideological Slavery, and Postbellum Racial Politics
Cambridge University Press