PUBLICATIONS
Books are in blue
Direct web links to essays are underlined
1999
"Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone” (Essay on James Baldwin’s novels)
The Iowa Review, Vol. 29. No. 2, 1999
"Miss Evers’ Boys" (Video review)
Cineaste, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1999
On Jazz: Notes of an Enthusiast
The Threepenny Review, Summer 1999
Sugar, Muhammad, and Me
The Threepenny Review, Spring 1999
1998
We Hardly Knew Ye: Four Early Films of Paul Robeson
Cineaste, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1998
"Independent’s Day" (Capsule movie review)
Cineaste, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1998
Black and American: What Does It Mean?
Commonweal, February 13, 1998
1997
The Devil Beats His Wife: Small Moments and Big Statements in the Films of Charles Burnett
Cineaste, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1997
Reprinted in The Best American Movie Writing 1999, St. Martin’s Press, 1999
"L.A. Confidential" (Capsule movie review)
Cineaste, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1997
Cinemas of the Black Diaspora (Book review)
Cineaste, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1997
“Black Is . . . Black Ain’t” (Movie review)
Cineaste, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1997
“Con Air”(Capsule movie review)
Cineaste, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1997
1996
The Brother from Another Race: Black Characters in the Films of John Sayles
Cineaste, Vol. 22, No. 3, 1996
Selected for inclusion in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 198, 2005
Paris Blues, Visited
The Iowa Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1996
"Black Film/White Money” (Book review),
Cineaste, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1996
Race and Anger
Commonweal, February 23, 1996
1995
Inventing Our Names, Our Selves
Commonweal, March 24, 1995
Reprinted in Interconnections, Harcourt Brace, 1997
Stand (Short story)
The Brownstone Review, No. 1, 1995
1993
The Meteor Man (Novelization)
Scholastic, 1993
1992
Black Americans of Achievement: Charles Chesnutt
Chelsea House, 1992
“Company Man and Jumping Ship” (Book reviews)
Emerge, June 1992
1991
“Another Name for My Brother” (Short story)
Scholastic Voice, February 8, 1991
1990
Judgment (Short story)
Published in Terry McMillan’s anthology, Breaking Ice, 1990
Reprinted in How We Live Now, 1992, and Crossing the Color Line, 2000