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Surviving the Hustle: Beyonce's Performance of Work, Black Camera 9.1 (2017)
"black and going on women": Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Alexander, and the Poetry of Grief, Palimpsest 6.1 (2017)
James Baldwin and the Sound of Soul, New Centennial Review 16.2 (2016)
“Black Radio: Esperanza Spalding, Robert Glasper, Janelle Monae,” in Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century, ed. Simone Drake & Dwan Henderson (Duke UP, 2020)
Souls Intact: The Soul Performances of Audre Lorde, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone, Women & Performance 26.1 (2016)
"Blues and Jazz Modernisms," The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, ed. Joshua Miller (2015)
Fading Out: White Flight and Sly and the Family Stone's "Stand!" Journal of Popular Music Studies 24.3 (2012)
"Window Seat": Erykah Badu, Projective Cultural Politics, and the Obama Era, Post45: Peer Reviewed (2011)