Books

1. ed. Murray Forman, Mark Anthony Neal, That’s the Joint: A Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2nd Edition) (July, 2011), pp. 776, Routledge [available here] .
2. Mark Anthony Neal, New Black Man (April, 2005), Routledge (Reviews: The Washington Post, May 22, 2005; Chicago Sun-Times, May 29, 2005; Free Inquiry, August/September 2005, 55; Journal of American Culture, December 2005, Vol. 28 Issue 4, 448-449;.) [resources.asp] .
3. Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Forman (co-editors), That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (September, 2004), Routledge (Reviews: The Boston Globe October 7, 2004 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/arti cles/2004/10/07/scholars_capture_essence_of_ hip_hop/ The Dallas Morning News November 26, 2004 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ fea/entertainment/stories/112704dnlivbooks.3 f7fd.html.) .
4. Mark Anthony Neal, Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (June, 2003), Routledge (Taylor and Francis) .
5. Mark Anthony Neal, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (March, 2002), Routledge (Taylor and Francis) .
6. Mark Anthony Neal, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (October, 1998), Routledge (Taylor and Francis) .

Papers Published

1. Mark Anthony Neal, “Thinking While Black”, in Making the University Matter, Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies, edited by Barbie Zelizer (June, 2011), Routledge .
2. Mark Anthony Neal, "A Man without a Country": The Boundaries of Legibility, Social Capital, and Cosmopolitan Masculinity, edited by Robert LeVertis Bell, Paul M. Farber, Criticism, vol. 52 no. 3-4 (2011), Wayne State University Press (special double issue of the journal Criticism, dedicated to the HBO series "The Wire"; also features Duke Literature Professor Fredric Jameson and Duke alum James Braxton Peterson ('93).) .
3. Mark Anthony Neal, “What Would Shirley Chisholm Say”, in Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign, edited by Beverley Guy-Sheftall and Johnetta Betsch Cole (August, 2010), State University of New York Press .
4. Mark Anthony Neal, Digging in the Crates, in The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker (August, 2010), Duke University Press .
5. Mark Anthony Neal, “Bringing Up Daddy: A Black Feminist Fatherhood”, in African-Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory Into Everyday Practice, edited by Aaronette M. White (June, 2010), State University of New York Press .
6. Mark Anthony Neal, "Hip Hop Culture", in Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Culture, edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill (April, 2010) .
7. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Chitlin Circuit", in Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Culture, edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill (April, 2010), Smithsonian Books .
8. Mark Anthony Neal, “Memory Lane: On Jazz, Hip-Hop and Fathers”, in Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic, edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai (December, 2009), Basic Civitas .
9. Mark Anthony Neal, “Music: Bodies in Pain”, in Best African American Essays, 2009, edited by Gerald Early and Debra Dickerson (January, 2009), Bantam Book .
10. Mark Anthony Neal, “Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church”, in The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture, edited by Tony Bolden (August, 2008), Palgrave Macmillan .
11. Mark Anthony Neal, “White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor”, in Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, edited by Eric Weisbard (Fall, 2007), Duke University Press .
12. Mark Anthony Neal, I Want to Take You Higher: Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church, SeeingBlack (Summer, 2007) [article_192.shtml] .
13. Mark Anthony Neal, Bodies in Pain: The Redemptive Soul of Linda Jones and Keyshia Cole, SeeingBlack (Summer, 2007) [article_195.shtml] .
14. Mark Anthony Neal, Carrying the Water: On Michael Eric Dyson, Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture (Summer, 2007) [available here] .
15. Mark Anthony Neal, The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006), Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture (Spring, 2007) [available here] .
16. Mark Anthony Neal, What's the Real Reason for the Sudden Attacks on Hip-Hop?, Vibe Magazine (on-line) (Spring, 2007) [available here] .
17. Joan Morgan and Mark Anthony Neal, A Brand New Feminism: A Conversation, in Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, edited by Jeff CHang (Spring, 2007), Basic Press .
18. Mark Anthony Neal, (Forward) “come and take a walk with me/a closer walk with thee/see what only I can see…”: A Few Words on Hip-Hop Feminism, in Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology, edited by Gwendolyn Pough, Rachel Raimist, Elaine Richardson, Aisha Durham (Spring, 2007), Parker Publishing .
19. Mark Anthony Neal, Who Gets to Use the "N" Word, Salon (Spring, 2007) [available here] .
20. Mark Anthony Neal, “Bringing Up Daddy: A Progressive Black Masculine Fatherhood”, in Progressive Black Masculinities?, edited by Athena D. Mutua (September, 2006), Routledge [product_detail.asp] .
21. Mark Anthony Neal, “Race-ing Katrina”, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 14 no. 1 (April, 2006) .
22. Mark Anthony Neal, "Post-Soul Resistance: Black Popular Music in the Post-Soul Era", in African-American Music: A History, edited by Portia Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim (October, 2005), pp. 704, Routledge [product_detail.asp] .
23. Mark Anthony Neal, "White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor", POPULAR MUSIC, vol. 24 no. 3 (October, 2005), Cambridge .
24. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Tortured Soul of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelly", in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004, edited by Mickey Hart (October, 2004), Da Capo Press .
25. Mark Anthony Neal, "Aretha Franklin", in African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham (Summer, 2004), Oxford University Press .
26. Mark Anthony Neal, "Ray Charles", in African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham (Summer, 2004), Oxford University Press .
27. Mark Anthony Neal, “Up from Hustling: Power, Plantations and the Hip-Hop Mogul”, Socialism and Democracy 26, vol. 18 no. 2 (June- December 2004) .
28. Mark Anthony Neal, "A Way Out of No Way: Jazz, Hip Hop and Black Social Improvisation", in The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, edited by Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin (Spring, 2004), Wesleyan .
29. Mark Anthony Neal, "Strange Bedfellows: Why is Michael Jackson allying himself with the Nation of Islam?", The New Republic (January 12, 2004) (URL: https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml? i=express&s=neal011204.) .
30. Mark Anthony Neal, The Birth of New Blackness: The Family Stand's Moon in Scorpio, in Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N' Roll, edited by Kandia Crazy Horse (January 3, 2004), Palgrave Macmillan .

Papers Accepted

1. Mark Anthony Neal, "A Man Without a Country: Legibility, Social Capital and Cosmopolitan Masculinity in 'The Wire', edited by Special Issue: Paul Farber and Robert Bell, Criticism (October, 2009) .

Book Reviews

1. Mark Anthony Neal, From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism by Patricia Hill-Collins, Ms. Magazine (Winter, 2006) .
2. Mark Anthony Neal, Bloodbeats: Vol. 1—Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions (Redbone Press) by Ernest Hardy, SEEINGBLACK.COM (July 11, 2006) [article_61.shtml] .
3. Imani Perry, Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip-Hop, AOL BLACK VOICES (February, 2005) [20050202] .
4. Mark Anthony Neal, Race Music: Black Cultures from Be-Bop to Hip-Hop (University of California) by Guthrie P. Ramsey, ECHO: A Music Centered Journal, vol. 6 no. 1 (Fall, 2004) (URL: http://www.echo.ucla.edu/volume6- issue1/reviews/neal.html.) .
5. Mark Anthony Neal, Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere (Wesleyan) by Gwendolyn Pough, Africana.com (August 12, 2004), AOL Time Warner (URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40809pass.asp.) .
6. Mark Anthony Neal, Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip-Hop Culture (Soft Skull Press) by Yvonne Bynoe, Popmatters: The Magazine of Global Culture (August 10, 2004) (URL: http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/s/st and-and-deliver.shtml.) .

Other

1. Mark Anthony Neal, Quincy Jones: Black music’s institutional memory, theLoop21.com (November, 2010) [quincy-jones-black-music%E2%80%99s-institutional-memory] .
2. Mark Anthony Neal, Twenty-five years later, Edmund Perry's case still resonates, theLoop21.com (November, 2010) [twenty-five-years-later-edmund-perrys-case-still-resonates] .
3. Mark Anthony Neal, Has Tyler Perry found a voice within Black feminism?, theLoop21.com (November, 2010) [has-tyler-perry-found-a-voice-in-black-feminism] .
4. Mark Anthony Neal, Un-married mothers yes, but not always single parents, theLoop21.com (November, 2010) [un-married-mothers-yes-not-always-single-parents] .
5. Mark Anthony Neal, The national culture says the literacy of young boys isn't all that important, theLoop21.com (November, 2010) [the-national-culture-says-the-literacy-young-boys-isnt-all-important] .
6. Mark Anthony Neal, # Where’s Young Jeezy’s anthem for the midterm elections?, theLoop21.com (October, 2010) [wheres-young-jeezys-anthem-for-the-mid-term-elections] .
7. Mark Anthony Neal, Do Black kids still like baseball?, theLoop21.com (October, 2010) [do-black-kids-still-like-baseball] .
8. Mark Anthony Neal, Black men have something of value to offer in America’s classrooms, theLoop21.com (September, 2010) [black-men-have-something-value-offer-america%E2%80%99s-classrooms] .
9. Mark Anthony Neal, “Work Ain’t Honest”: Hip-Hop's black collar economy, theLoop21.com (September, 2010) [work-aint-honest-hip-hops-black-collar-economy] .
10. Mark Anthony Neal, Grooves of Consciousness? The Myths of Political Music, The New Black Magazine (August, 2010) [view.aspx] .
11. Mark Anthony Neal, Before 'The Boondocks', there was Ollie Harrington, theLoop21.com (August, 2010) [the-boondocks-there-was-ollie-harrington] .
12. Mark Anthony Neal, The curious obsession with the #BrownTwitterBird, theLoop21.com (August, 2010) [the-ever-curious-obsession-causing-relationship-between-blackness-and-technology] .
13. Mark Anthony Neal, “Where Dey At?”: Bounce and the ‘Sanctified Swing’ Post-Katrina, theLoop21.com (August, 2010) [where-dey-at-bounce-and-the-sanctified-swing-post-katrina] .
14. Mark Anthony Neal, 'Acting white my ass' Beyond the myths of Black student underperformance, theLoop21.com (August, 2010) [acting-white-my-ass-beyond-the-myths-black-student-underperformance] .
15. Mark Anthony Neal, Finding Teacake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood, The New Black Magazine (June, 2010) [view.aspx] .
16. Mark Anthony Neal, Coming Apart at the Seams: Black Masculinity and the Performance of Obama-Era Respectability, Seeing Black (May, 2010) [article_794.shtml] .
17. Mark Anthony Neal, "Snap That Tiger: Reading Tiger Woods on the Cover of Vanity Fair", Seeing Black (January, 2010) [article_744.shtml] .
18. Mark Anthony Neal, The Urgent Nostalgia of Raheem DeVaughn’s ‘Bulletproof’, SeeingBlack.com (December 10, 2009) [article_733.shtml] .
19. Mark Anthony Neal, "Charlie Wilson Talks Cancer", SeeingBlack.com (December 2, 2009) [article_728.shtml] .
20. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Post Modern Mammy? The Oprah Legacy", The New Black Magazine (England) (November 30, 2009) [view.aspx] .
21. Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Men Need to Wake Up to the Facts on Our Women’s Health", theGrio/NBC News (October 14, 2009) [php] .
22. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Polanski Uproar: Criminal or Genius", The New York Times On-line--Room for Debate (September 29, 2009) [#neal] .
23. Mark Anthony Neal, "How Kanye Saved the VMAs", theGrio/NBC News (September 14, 2009) [php] .
24. Mark Anthony Neal, "Tyler Perry Reflects Black Culture, But Some Hate What They See", theGrio/NBC News (September 11, 2009) [php] .
25. Mark Anthony Neal, "Will Downing in 'Classique' Form", The Root/Washington Post Interactive (July 24, 2009) [will-downing-classique-form] .
26. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Demise of Vibe Magazine and the Future of Criticism", Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture (July 24, 2009) [available here] .
27. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Crisis for Survival Shifts from Violence to Healthcare", theGrio/NBC News (July 22, 2009) [php] .
28. Mark Anthony Neal, "Can You Remember?", Hello World: The Complete Motown Solo Collection (Michael Jackson) (July, 2009) [html] .
29. Mark Anthony Neal, "What Happened to All the Black Ball Players?", The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Baltimore Sun/The Cleveland Plain Dealer (July 14, 2009) [html] .
30. Mark Anthony Neal, "What’s Driving Michael Jackson Mania? A Global Community Built on Pop", The New York Times On-line--Room for Debate (July 7, 2009) [available here] .
31. Mark Anthony Neal, "Obama Flunks His 'Teachable Moment'”, theGrio/NBC News (June 31, 2009) [php] .
32. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Music in Spike’s Message", The Root/Washington Post Interactive (June 22, 2009) [music-spike-s-message] .
33. Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Men and Baseball", The Root/Washington Post Interactive (June 21, 2009) [black-men-and-baseball] .
34. Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Radio Doesn’t Deserve Our Help", The Root/Washington Post Interactive (May 27, 2009) [black-radio-doesnt-deserve-our-help] .
35. Mark Anthony Neal, "Katrina's Second Line", The Root/Washington Post Interactive (February 23, 2009) [katrina-s-second-line] .
36. Mark Anthony Neal, Kanye’s Pity Party, The Root/Washington Post Interactive (December 16, 2008) .
37. Mark Anthony Neal, Is Michelle Obama's "Ass" Off Limits?, Vibe Magazine (on-line) (November 18, 2008) .
38. Mark Anthony Neal, Black Voters, White Progressives & Prop 8, NewsOne.com (November 12, 2008) .
39. Mark Anthony Neal, Black President Era May Challenge Black Brokers, NewsOne.com (November 7, 2008) .
40. Mark Anthony Neal, Sexism, Misogyny And Sarah Palin, NewsOne.com (October 24, 2008) .
41. Mark Anthony Neal, The Financial Meltdown and John McCain’s Willie Horton, NewsOne.com (October 16, 2008) .
42. Mark Anthony Neal, Global Financial Crisis Threatens Black Middle Class, NewsOne.com (September 24, 2008) .
43. Mark Anthony Neal, Conventions in the Rearview: Senior Healthcare Remains Untouched, NewsOne.com (September 7, 2008) .
44. Mark Anthony Neal, Michelle Obama Lifts Veil on Black Womanhood, NewsOne.com (August 26, 2008) .
45. Mark Anthony Neal, Feminism Deserves More Than a Roll Call Vote, NewsOne.com (August 25, 2008) .
46. Mark Anthony Neal, Can Paying For Grades Help No Child Left Behind?, NewsOne.com (August 15, 2008) .
47. Mark Anthony Neal, An Ode to Hot Buttered Soul, The Root/Washington Post Interactive (August 11, 2008) .
48. Mark Anthony Neal, Lift Every Voice, The Root/Washington Post Interactive (July 14, 2008) .
49. Mark Anthony Neal, Great Expectations? Venus and Serena Set Their Own Bar, Vibe Magazine (on-line) (July 5, 2008) .
50. Mark Anthony Neal, A Father's Day Message (Op-Ed), The News & Observer (June 13, 2008) .
51. Mark Athony Neal, Sister Soul, The Root/Washington Post Interactive (June 9, 2008) .
52. Mark Anthony Neal, Vet Obama? How About (White) America Vet Itself, Vibe Magazine (on-line) (May 30, 2008) .
53. Mark Anthony Neal, Obama Elitist? I'm Hearing Something Else, Vibe Magazine (on-line) (April 13, 2008) .
54. Mark Anthony Neal, What Would Shirley Chisholm Say?, Vibe Magazine (on-line) (January 20, 2008) .
55. Mark Anthony Neal, Hillary vs. Barack? A Black (Male) Feminist Considers, Vibe Magazine (on-line) (January 9, 2008) .
56. Mark Anthony Neal, It's Your Nigger Problem, Not Hip-Hop's, BLACK AGENDA REPORT (December 6, 2006) [php] .
57. Mark Anthony Neal, My Passport Says Shawn: Trafficking in Monikers, SEEINGBLACK.COM (November 26, 2006) .
58. Mark Anthony Neal, Rape Not in Black and White, SEEINGBLACK.COM (October 16, 2006) [article_86.shtml] .
59. Mark Anthony Neal, Good 'Game Theory', SEEINGBLACK.COM (October 16, 2006) [article_83.shtml] .
60. Mark Anthony Neal, Black Macho Disturbed, SEEINGBLACK.COM (July 21, 2006) [article_59.shtml] .
61. Mark Anthony Neal, (White) Male Privilege, Black Respectability, and Black Women's Bodies, THE BLACK COMMENTATOR (April 20, 2006) [html] .
62. Mark Anthony Neal, Kanye Walks: Hip-Hop and Spirituality, POPMATTERS: A GLOBAL MAGAZINE OF CULTURE (February 2, 2006) [060202-kanyewest.shtml] .
63. Mark Anthony Neal, Freedom Summer Remembered: A Conversation with Denise Nicholas, THE BACKLIST—A PUBLISHING AND LITERARY NEWSLETTER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST (October, 2005) [html] .
64. Mark Anthony Neal, Race-ing Katrina, POPMATTERS: A GLOBAL MAGAZINE OF CULTURE (September 9, 2005) [available here] .
65. Mark Anthony Neal, "Rhythm and Bullshit: The Slow Decline of R&B (Rhythm and Blues)", ALTERNET.ORG (July 8, 2005) [available here] .
66. Mark Anthony Neal, Michael Jackson’s Hidden Accuser: Racism, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (June 10, 2005) [la-oe-neal10jun10,0,3674933.story] .
67. Mark Anthony Neal, Critical Noir: Can Hip-Hop Be Feminist?, AOL BLACK VOICES (April 6, 2005), Time Warner [20050330] .
68. Mark Anthony Neal, Critical Noir: Daughters of the Sister Outsider, AOL BLACK VOICES (March 30, 2005), Time Warner [20050330] .
69. Mark Anthony Neal, Critical Noir: The Color Purple Controversy Revisited, AOL BLACK VOICES (March 9, 2005), Time Warner [20050309] .
70. Mark Anthony Neal, Critical Noir: Taking One for the Team—Michele Wallace, AOL BLACK VOICES (March 2, 2005), Time Warner [20050302] .
71. Mark Anthony Neal, In Defense of Ward Churchill, Pop and Politics (March 1, 2005) [articles_detail.cfm] .
72. Mark Anthony Neal, Critical Noir: Revolutionary Mixtape—Songs that Made the Movement, AOL BLACK VOICES (February 16, 2005), Time Warner [20050216] .
73. Mark Anthony Neal, Critical Noir: Songs of the Sad Minstrel, AOL BLACK VOICES (January 12, 2005), Time Warner [20050112] .
74. Mark Anthony Neal, Critical Noir: A Hustler’s Legacy, AOL BLACK VOICES (January 5, 2005), Time Warner [20050105] .
75. Mark Anthony Neal, Sambo Must Die, AOL BlackVoices (October 27, 2004), AOL Time Warner (URL: http://bv.channel.aol.com/entmain/music/crit no10604/20041027.) .
76. Mark Anthony Neal, Songs of Redemption, AOL BlackVoices (September 29, 2004), AOL Time Warner (URL: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/special4/article. adp?id=20040929165009990004.) .
77. Mark Anthony Neal, Our Right to Rock, Africana.com (September 2, 2004), AOL Time Warner (URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40902rockers.asp.) .
78. Mark Anthony Neal, Live from Planet Soul: Donny Hathaway and Laura Nyro, Popmatters: the Magazine of Global Culture (August 25, 2004) (URL: http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/040 825-donnyhathaway.shtml.) .
79. Mark Anthony Neal, Hip-Hop's Gender Problem, Africana.com (May 26, 2004), AOL Time Warner (URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40526hipgender.asp.) .
80. Mark Anthony Neal, The Genius of Donny Hathaway, Africana.com (February 4, 2004), AOL Time warner (URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40204hathaway.asp.) .
81. Mark Anthony Neal, Baby Girl Drama: Remembering Sakia Gunn, Popmatters: the Magazine of Global Culture (January 27, 2004) (URL: http://www.popmatters.com/features/040127- sakiagunn.shtml.) .