Author | Professor | Philosopher | Theologian
BOOK CHAPTERS
“He Could Put Over with Great Effect: Minstrelsy, Blackface, and the Trans-corporeal Comedy of Bert Williams.” In The Oxford Handbook of African American Humor Studies, eds. Brittney Edmonds and Danielle F. Morgan (Oxford University Press, 2026): 32-50. [LINK TO CHAPTER]
“The Calculated Risk: The Rise and Fall of Chester Himes’s Harlem Detective Team of Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.” In Critical Insights: Sidekicks in Literature, eds. Laura Nicosia and James Nicosia (Salem Press, 2026): 250-268.
“‘The Reality of the Room Fell From Him’: The Phenomenologies of Black Masculinity from Native Son to ‘Island of Hallucination.’” In Critical Insights: Native Son, ed. Nicolas Tredell (Salem Press, 2025): 169-189.
“Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas Among the Natives: Early Critical Reception of Native Son.” In Critical Insights: Native Son, ed. Nicolas Tredell. (Salem Press, 2025): 25-48.
“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.” In Critical Insights: Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, eds. Laura Nicosia and James Nicosia (Salem Press, 2025): 230-248.
“‘God Wills It’: Pope Urban II, Anti-Pope Clement III, and the Reasons for the First Crusade.” In Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Jeanette Fregulia (Routledge, 2025): 91-97. [LINK TO CHAPTER]
"‘To Be on Fire for Justice’: James Cone’s Legacy and Cornel West’s Prophetic Commitments to Liberational-Theological Social Justice.” In Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice, eds. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, 2023): 209-221. [LINK TO CHAPTER]
“A Short History of Liberation Theology: From Latin America to the United States, India, and Palestine: 1968-1989.” In Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice, eds. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, 2023): 166-175. [LINK TO CHAPTER]
“Social Justice: A Philosophical Introduction,” with Nick T. C. Lu. In Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice, eds. Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu (Routledge, 2023): 29-42. [LINK TO CHAPTER]
“Hooks, Bell (1952-2021).” In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, eds. George Ritzer and Chris Rojek (Wiley-Blackwell, October 2022): 1-4. [LINK TO CHAPTER]
“The Question of the Meaning of Ágalma: Between Hermeneutics, Topology and Unconcealment - Commentary on Sessions IX and X.” in Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VIII: On Transference, eds. Jonathan Dickstein and Gautam B. Thakur (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 99-119. [LINK TO CHAPTER]
“Heidegger and The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream.” In 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)
“Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” p. 94-96
“The Black Family” p. 106-108
“The Black Star Line” p. 118-120
“John Brown” p. 126-128
“The Chicago Defender” p. 134-136
“Compromise of 1877” p. 149-150
“Alexander Crummell” p. 158-159
“Economic Justice” p. 172-173
“Fair Housing Act of 1968” p. 187-188
“Coretta Scott King” p. 237-238
“Martin Luther King, Jr.” p. 238-240
“Negritude” p. 291-293
“Negro World” p. 293-294
“Adam Clayton Powell” p. 321-323
“Reparations” p. 330-332
“Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)” p. 349-351
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