PUBLICATIONS
Books are in blue
Direct web links to essays are underlined
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1999
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"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
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On Jazz: Notes of an Enthusiast
The Threepenny Review, Summer 1999
Sugar, Muhammad, and Me
The Threepenny Review, Spring 1999
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1998
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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
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1997
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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
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“Con Air”(Capsule movie review)
Cineaste, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1997
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1996
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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
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"Black Film/White Money” (Book review),
Cineaste, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1996
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Race and Anger
Commonweal, February 23, 1996
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1995
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Inventing Our Names, Our Selves
Commonweal, March 24, 1995
Reprinted in Interconnections, Harcourt Brace, 1997
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Stand (Short story)
The Brownstone Review, No. 1, 1995
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1993
The Meteor Man (Novelization)
Scholastic, 1993
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1992
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Black Americans of Achievement: Charles Chesnutt
Chelsea House, 1992
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“Company Man and Jumping Ship” (Book reviews)
Emerge, June 1992
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1991
“Another Name for My Brother” (Short story)
Scholastic Voice, February 8, 1991
1990
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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
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