Author | Professor | Philosopher | Theologian
BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Calculated Risk: The Rise and Fall of Chester Himes’s Harlem Detective Team of Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.” Critical Insights: Sidekicks in Literature. Eds. Laura Nicosia (Salem Press, Forthcoming in February 2026).
“‘The Reality of the Room Fell From Him’: The Phenomenologies of Black Masculinity from Native Son to ‘Island of Hallucination.’” Critical Insights: Native Son. Ed. Nicolas Tredell (Salem Press, 2025).
“Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas Among the Natives: Early Critical Reception of Native Son.” Critical Insights: Native Son. Ed. Nicolas Tredell. (Salem Press, 2025).
“Walking Back to the Hotel in the Rain: Where A Farewell to Arms Ends and the Black Masculinities of Richard Wright’s Native Son and James Baldwin’s Another Country Begin.” Critical Insights: Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Eds. Laura Nicosia and James Nicosia (Salem Press, 2025).
“‘God Wills It’: Pope Urban II, Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade.” Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean. Ed. Jeanette Fregulia (Routledge, 2025): 91-97.
"‘To Be on Fire for Justice’: James Cone’s Legacy and Cornel West’s Prophetic Commitments to Liberational-Theological Social Justice.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Ed. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, 2023): 209-221.
“A Short History of Liberation Theology: From Latin America to the United States, India, and Palestine: 1968-1989.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Ed. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, 2023): 166-175.
“Social Justice: A Philosophical Introduction,” with Nick T. C. Lu. Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Ed. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, 2023): 29-42.
“Hooks, Bell (1952-2021).” Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. George Ritzer and Chris Rojek (Wiley-Blackwell, October 2022): 1-4.
“The Question of the Meaning of Ágalma: Between Hermeneutics, Topology and Unconcealment - Commentary on Sessions IX and X.” Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VIII: On Transference. Eds. Jonathan Dickstein and Gautam B. Thakur (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 99-119.
“Heidegger and The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream.” Critical Insights: Richard Wright. Ed. Kimberly Drake. (Grey House/EBSCO, 2019): 56-71.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
In African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed. Angela Jones (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2023)
“Adam Clayton Powell”
“The Black Star Line”
“Fair Housing Act of 1968”
“Negritude”
“Compromise of 1877”
“Alexander Crummell”
“Economic Justice”
“The Chicago Defender”
“Negro World”
“Reparations”
“Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)”
“John Brown”
“Martin Luther King Jr.”
“Coretta Scott King”
“Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.”
“The Black Family”
In Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 2: Independence to 1900. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019)
“American Baptist Church and Slavery” p. 5-8
“Black Education in Antebellum North” p. 27-29
“Christianity in the Antebellum South” p. 45-48
“The Democratic Party in the Antebellum Era and Race, Class, Ethnicity” p. 59-63
“Lincoln, Class, Race, and Slavery” p. 128-131
“The Republican Party and Race, Class, Ethnicity” p. 174-176
“The Whig Party and Race, Class, Ethnicity” p. 212-215
In Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 3: The Progressive Era through the Civil Rights Movement. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019)
“The Democratic Party in the South” p. 57-59
“Decline of Harlem” p. 97-98
“Lincoln and Reconstruction” p. 125-128
“Radical Republicans” p. 171-174
“Booker T. Washington and the Atlantic Movement” p. 249-252
“World War I and the Black Experience” p. 261-264
In Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present: Volume 4: Post Civil Rights to the Present. Ed. Russell Lawson (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, October 2019):
“Diversity in Higher Education” p. 113-115