Books

1.  Private Bodies/Public Texts: Locating (a) Narrative Bioethics. 2007. (mss in progress)
2.  BookMarks: Reading in Black and White--A Memoir.  Rutgers University Press, 2006.
3.  Passed On: African American Mourning Stories.  Duke UP, 2002. (2nd printing (2002); paperback (2003))
4.  Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1995.
5.  Moorings and Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1992.
6.  The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
7.  New Dimensions of Spirituality: A BiRacial and BiCultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987. (with S. Demetrakopoulos)

Papers Published

1. "The Right to Privacy: Home Invasions--Standing Naked Before the Law."  under review   (2008).
2. "Bury the Thought." Defining Moments: Reflections of 25 African American Women Writers  (under review).
3. "What Would DuBois Do?." Black Issues Book Review July/August (2007).
4. "Private Bodies/Public Texts: Literature, Science, and States of Surveillance." Literature and Medicine  (forthcoming).
5. "Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, or: 'They Done Taken My Blues and Gone'." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7:1 (Fall, 2006).
6. "Coda: Bodies of Evidence." S&F (Scholar and Feminist) Online http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/4:3 (Summer, Summer, 2006).
7. "Don't Discount DNA Dangers." Raleigh News and Observer  (March, March, 2006).
8. "W.E.B.DuBois and The Right to Privacy." Annals of Scholarship  (forthcoming 2006).
9. "Foreword: On Monuments and Documents." Uncrowned Queens: African American Community Leaders of Western New York 3 (2006).
10. "The "R" Word: Bioethics and a (Dis)Regard of Race." American Journal of Bioethics 6:3 (2006).
11. "Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine and the Problem of Polyheme." The American Journal of Bioethics 6:3 (2006).
12. "Zora Neale Hurston." The Oxford Companion to Women's Literature in the United States  (2003): 408-10.
13. "The Race for Theory." Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas 97 (Winter, Winter, 2002): 347-354.
14. "The Death of Culture." The Massachusetts Review  (Spring, Spring, 1999): 31-41.
15. "Gender." The Oxford Companion to African-American Literature  (1997): 312-15.
16. "Narrative Time/Spiritual Text." Faulkner/Morrison, Morrison/Faulkner  (1997).
17. "Cultural Narratives Passed On: African American Mourning Stories." College English 59:1 (Jan. 1997): 32-40.
18. "My Tongue is In My Friend's Mouth." Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques  (1996): 124-37.
19. "The Body Politic." Subjects and Citizens: From Ooronoko to Anita Hill  (1995): 481-97.
20. "The Lyrical Dimensions of Spirituality." Embodied Voices: Female Vocality in Western Culture  (1994).
21. "Private Parts/Public Spaces." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 23 (1994): 307-19.
22. "Language, Culture, and the Implications of Assessment." Alternative Perspectives in Children's Language and Literacy  (1994): 11-21.
23. "Image, Act, and Identity in Ernest Gaines's In My Father's House." New Perspectives on Ernest Gaines  (1994): 180-94.
24. "Cultural Politics in the Academic Community: Masking the Color Line." College English 55:6 (Oct. 1993): 610-17.
25. "The Emergent Voice: The Word within its Texts." Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives, Past and Present  (1993).
26. "Economies of Space: Markets and Marketability in Our Nig and Iola Leroy." The (Other) American Traditions: 19th Century American Women  (1992): 126-40.
27. "Holy Heat: Rituals of the Spirit in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Journal of Religion and Literature 23:3 (Fall, Autumn 1991): 127-41.
28. "Beloved: A Spiritual." Callaloo 13:3 (Fall, Fall 1990): 516-25.
29. "A Question of Identity." Counterpoint and Beyond: A Response to Becoming a Nation of Readers  (1988): 43-50.
30. "The Effects of Basal Readers on Oral Language Complexity." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 15:2 (March, Mar. 1986): 141-51.
31. "Remembering Our Foremothers: Older Black Women - Politics of Age, Politics of Survival." Women and Politics 6 (1986): 13-34.
32. "Women as Elders: Images, Visions, and Issues (report)."   (1986): 13-34.
33. "Learning to Talk - Learning to Read." Tapping Potential: English Language Arts for the Black Child  (1985).

Book Reviews

1.  "The Ladies Speak Out". Review of Wearing Purple, edited by Otis Owens et al., The Raleigh News and Observer  (February, 23 Feb. 1997).
2.  "Review of Nathaniel Mackey's Djbot Baghostus's Run". African American Review 29:4 (Winter, Winter 1995): 698-700.
3.  "Review of Toni Morrison's Beloved". Black American Literature Forum 23:1 (Spring, Spring 1989): 179-82.
4.  "Review of Gloria Naylor's Talking Vines and Whispering Rocks: Mama Day". Belle Lettres  (August, Aug. 1988).

Other

1.  "The False Dividing Line of Race." . February, February 22, 2008.
2.  "Hillary and Obama." . January, January, 2008. (Interview w/Frank Stasio)
3.  "The Return of One Drop?." . November, November, 2007.
4.  "The Problem with Cosby." . October, October, 2007.
5.  "Polyheme--An Update?." . September, September, 2007.
6.  "Those Faces We Do Not Mourn." . August, August 17, 2007.
7.  "Quiet As It's Kept--Without a Name for Grief." . June, June, 2006.
8.  "DNA and the Romance of Race." . February, February, 2006.

Short Stories