Publications of Mark A. Neal

Books

  1. Neal, MA. Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation. Routledge (Taylor and Francis), June, 2003.
  2. Neal, MA; Forman, M. That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Routledge, September, 2004. (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)
  3. Neal, MA. New Black Man. Routledge, April, 2005. (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;)
  4. Forman, EM; Neal, MA. That's the Joint: A Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2nd Edition). Routledge, July, 2011. 776 pages pp.
  5. Neal, MA. Looking for Leroy: Illegible black masculinities. January, 2013. 1-205 pp.
  6. Neal, MA. What the music said black popular music and black public culture. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, January, 2013. 1-198 pp.
  7. Neal, MA. Soul babies: Black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, February, 2013. 1-210 pp.
  8. Mark Anthony Neal. Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities. Postmillennial Pop New York University Press, April, 2013. 224 pp.
  9. Neal, MA. New black man: Tenth anniversary edition. January, 2015. 1-194 pp.

Essays, Articles, Chapters in Books

  1. Neal, MA. "Sold Out On Soul: the Corporate Annexation of Black Popular Music."  1997: 117-135.
  2. Neal, MA. "It Be's That Way Sometimes 'Cause I Can't Control the Rhyme: Notes from the Post-Soul Intelligentsia."  1998
  3. Neal, MA. "Trouble Man: The Art and Politics of Marvin Gaye."  1998
  4. Neal, MA. "Keeping It Real: The Hip-Hop Generation on Campus."  1998
  5. Neal, MA. "It Be's That Way's Sometimes 'Cause I Can't Control the Rhyme: Notes from the Post-Soul Intelligentsia." Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature. Ed. Powell, K John Wiley and Sons, November, 2000
  6. Neal, MA. "Another Man is Beating My Time: Gender and Sexuality in Black Popular Music." American Popular Music: New Approaches to the 20th Century. Ed. Rubin, R; Melnick, J University of Massachussetts Press, June, 2001
  7. Neal, MA. "Just Another Nigga: Reflections on Black Masculinity and Middle Class Identity." Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men on Law, Justice and Life. Ed. Asim, J Harper Collins, November, 2001
  8. Neal, MA. "Crisis in real time (digitized, remastered, and MP3ed)."  Wiley, January, 2002: 7-10.
  9. Neal, MA. "If You Don’t Own the Masters…."  Taylor & Francis, 2003
  10. Neal, MA. "Tupac’s book shelf: “all eyez on me: Tupac shakur and the search for a modern folk hero,” W.E.B. Du bois institute for afro-american research, harvard university, april 17, 2003."  WILEY, January, 2003: 208-212.
  11. Neal, MA. "A Way Out of No Way: Jazz, Hip Hop and Black Social Improvisation." The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue. Ed. Heble, A; Fischlin, D Wesleyan, Spring, 2004
  12. Neal, MA. "Ray Charles." African American National Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, J; Higginbotham, E Oxford University Press, Summer, 2004
  13. Neal, MA. "Aretha Franklin." African American National Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, J; Higginbotham, E Oxford University Press, Summer, 2004
  14. Neal, MA. "The Birth of New Blackness: The Family Stand’s Moon in Scorpio." Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N’ Roll. Ed. Horse, KC Palgrave Macmillan, January, 2004
  15. Neal, MA. "Up from hustling: Power, plantations, and the hip–hop mogul."  January, 2004: 157-182.
  16. Neal, MA. "The Tortured Soul of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelly." Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004. Ed. Hart, M Da Capo Press, October, 2004
  17. Neal, MA. "Soul for Sale: the Marketing of Black Musical Expression." R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music. Ed. Kelley, N Akashic Books, 2005: 323 pages.
  18. Neal, MA. "Post-Soul Resistance: Black Popular Music in the Post-Soul Era." African-American Music: A History. Ed. Maultsby, P; Burnim, MV Routledge, October, 2005: 704-704.
  19. Neal, MA. "White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor."  Cambridge, October, 2005
  20. Neal, MA. "From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism by Patricia Hill-Collins."  Winter, 2006
  21. Neal, MA. "Race-ing Katrina."  April, 2006
  22. Neal, MA. "Bringing Up Daddy: A Progressive Black Masculine Fatherhood." Progressive Black Masculinities?. Ed. Mutua, AD Routledge, September, 2006
  23. Neal, MA. "(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." Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology. Ed. Pough, G; Raimist, R; Richardson, E; Durham, A Parker Publishing, Spring, 2007
  24. with Neal, M; Morgan, J; Neal, MA. "A Brand New Feminism: A Conversation." Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. Ed. CHang, J Basic Press, Spring, 2007
  25. Neal, MA. "White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor." Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music. Ed. Weisbard, E Duke University Press, Fall, 2007
  26. Neal, MA. "The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006)."  Spring, 2007
  27. Neal, MA. "Carrying the Water: On Michael Eric Dyson."  Summer, 2007
  28. Neal, MA. "I Want to Take You Higher: Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church."  Summer, 2007
  29. Mark Anthony Neal. "Bodies in Pain: The Redemptive Soul of Linda Jones and Keyshia Cole."  Summer, 2007
  30. Ashe, BD; Anderson, C; Neal, MA; Shockley, E; Weheliye, A. "These - Are - The "Breaks": A Roundtable Discussion on Teaching the Post-Soul Aesthetic."  Test accounts, December, 2007: 787-787.
  31. Neal, MA. "Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church." The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture. Ed. Bolden, T Palgrave Macmillan, August, 2008
  32. Neal, MA. "Bodies in Pain: The Redemptive Soul of Linda Jones and Keyshia Cole."  2009
  33. Neal, MA. "Music: Bodies in Pain." Best African American Essays, 2009. Ed. Early, G; Dickerson, D Bantam Book, January, 2009
  34. Andrady, AL; Neal, MA. "Applications and societal benefits of plastics.."  July, 2009: 1977-1984.
  35. Neal, MA. "Memory Lane: On Jazz, Hip-Hop and Fathers." Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas' Illmatic. Ed. Dyson, ME; Daulatzai, S Basic Civitas, December, 2009
  36. Neal, MA. ""A man without a country": The boundaries of legibility, social capital, and cosmopolitan masculinity."  Ed. Robert LeVertis Bell, Paul M. Farber Johns Hopkins University Press, January, 2010: 399-411. 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)
  37. Neal, MA. "The Chitlin Circuit." Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Culture. Ed. Carlin, R; Conwill, KH Smithsonian Books, April, 2010
  38. Neal, MA. "Hip Hop Culture." Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Culture. Ed. Carlin, R; Conwill, KH April, 2010
  39. Neal, MA. ""Bringing Up Daddy: A Black Feminist Fatherhood"." African-Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory Into Everyday Practice. Ed. White, AM State University of New York Press, June, 2010
  40. Neal, MA. "Digging in the Crates." The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl. Ed. Schoonmaker, T Duke University Press, August, 2010
  41. Neal, MA. "What Would Shirley Chisholm Say." Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Ed. Guy-Sheftall, B; Cole, JB State University of New York Press, August, 2010
  42. with Neal, M; Ikard, D. "Transforming Black Men in Feminism."  Ed. Sharpley-Whiting, TD; Patterson-Myers, TR SUNY Press, 2012
  43. Neal, MA. "Finding Tea Cake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood."  Ed. Sharpley-Whiting, TD; Patterson-Myers, TR SUNY Press, 2012: 256-263.
  44. Neal, MA. "Pop Music and the Spatialization of Race in the 1990s."  2012
  45. Neal, MA. "Bearing Witness: Mahalia Jackson & The Sanctified Bounce (for Clyde Woods)."  2012
  46. Neal, MA. "Thinking While Black." Making the University Matter. Ed. Zelizer, B Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media StudiesRoutledge, January, 2012: 97-103.
  47. Neal, MA. ""I Am Not Just From Here:" The Roots of Hip Hop's Cosmopolitanism: A Reflection on Isoke's "Women, Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance in Dubai"."  Informa UK Limited, January, 2013: 338-340.
  48. Neal, MA. "Niggas in Paris: Hip-Hop in Exile."  January, 2013
  49. Neal, MA. "Nigga: The 21st-century theoretical superhero."  WILEY, August, 2013: 556-563.
  50. Neal, MA. "Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of Diaspora." Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem. Ed. Baldwin, D; Makalani, M University of Minnesota Press, October, 2013: 415-419.
  51. Neal, MA. "Now i ain’t saying he’s a Crate Digger: Kanye west, “community theaters” and the soul archive." The Cultural Impact of Kanye West. Palgrave Macmillan US, January, 2014: 3-12.
  52. Neal, MA. "Race Music: Black Cultures from Be-Bop to Hip-Hop (University of California) by Guthrie P. Ramsey."  February, 2014
  53. Neal, MA. "Now I Ain't Saying He's a 'Crate Digger': Kanye West and the Soul Archive." The Cultural Impact of Kanye West. Ed. Bailey, J Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2014: 292 pages.
  54. Spence, LK; Neal, MA. "Guest Editors’ Note."  Informa UK Limited, October, 2014: 143-147.
  55. Neal, MA. "N*ggas in Paris: hip-hop in exile."  Informa UK Limited, March, 2016: 150-159.
  56. Neal, MA. "The post-civil rights period: The politics of musical creativity." Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation. Routledge, October, 2016: 368-380.
  57. Johnson, JM; Neal, MA. "Introduction: Wild seed in the machine."  Informa UK Limited, July, 2017: 1-2.
  58. Neal, MA. "Zu-Zu’s Song Trauma, Citation, and the Black Women’s Songbook."  October, 2021: 50-56.

Papers Accepted

  1. Mark Anthony Neal. ""A Man Without a Country: Legibility, Social Capital and Cosmopolitan Masculinity in 'The Wire'." Criticism  (October, 2009).

Book Reviews

  1. Neal, MA. "Strange Bedfellows: Why is Michael Jackson allying himself with the Nation of Islam?".  The New Republic (January, 2004). (URL: https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml? i=express&s=neal011204)
  2. Neal, MA. Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip-Hop Culture (Soft Skull Press) by Yvonne Bynoe.  Popmatters: The Magazine of Global Culture (August, 2004). (URL: http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/s/st and-and-deliver.shtml)
  3. Neal, MA. Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere (Wesleyan) by Gwendolyn Pough.  Africana.com (August, 2004). (URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40809pass.asp)
  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 6.1 (Fall, 2004). (URL: http://www.echo.ucla.edu/volume6- issue1/reviews/neal.html)
  5. Perry, I. Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip-Hop.  AOL BLACK VOICES (February, 2005).
  6. Neal, MA. Bloodbeats: Vol. 1 Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions (Redbone Press) by Ernest Hardy.  SEEINGBLACK.COM (July, 2006).
  7. Neal, MA. Who Gets to Use the "N" Word.  Salon (Spring, 2007).
  8. Neal, MA. What’s the Real Reason for the Sudden Attacks on Hip-Hop?.  Vibe Magazine (on-line) (Spring, 2007).
  9. Neal, MA. "What Happened to All the Black Ball Players?".  The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Baltimore Sun/The Cleveland Plain Dealer (July, 2009).
  10. Neal, MA. "What's Driving Michael Jackson Mania? A Global Community Built on Pop".  The New York Times On-line–Room for Debate (July, 2009).
  11. Neal, MA. "The Polanski Uproar: Criminal or Genius".  The New York Times On-line–Room for Debate (September, 2009).
  12. Neal, MA. 1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power.  Black Perspectives (December, 2018).
  13. Neal, MA. How Curtis Mayfield and Gladys Knight Created a Sound for Working-Class Black America.  The Current | Critterion Collection (October, 2020).
  14. Neal, MA. “Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music.  Black Perspectives (June, 2021).
  15. Neal, MA. Pop Culture Helped Turn Police Officers Into Rock Stars — And Black Folks Into Criminals.  Level Magazine (October, 2021).

Other

  1. 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
  2. Mark Anthony Neal. "The Genius of Donny Hathaway." Africana.com AOL Time warner. (February 4, 2004). URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40204hathaway.asp
  3. Mark Anthony Neal. "Hip-Hop's Gender Problem." Africana.com AOL Time Warner. (May 26, 2004). URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40526hipgender.asp
  4. 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
  5. Mark Anthony Neal. "Our Right to Rock." Africana.com AOL Time Warner. (September 2, 2004). URL: http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu200 40902rockers.asp
  6. Mark Anthony Neal. "Songs of Redemption." AOL BlackVoices AOL Time Warner. (September 29, 2004). URL: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/special4/article. adp?id=20040929165009990004
  7. Mark Anthony Neal. "Sambo Must Die." AOL BlackVoices AOL Time Warner. (October 27, 2004). URL: http://bv.channel.aol.com/entmain/music/crit no10604/20041027
  8. Mark Anthony Neal. "Critical Noir: A Hustler’s Legacy." AOL BLACK VOICES Time Warner. (January 5, 2005).
  9. Mark Anthony Neal. "Critical Noir: Songs of the Sad Minstrel." AOL BLACK VOICES Time Warner. (January 12, 2005).
  10. Mark Anthony Neal. "Critical Noir: Revolutionary Mixtape—Songs that Made the Movement." AOL BLACK VOICES Time Warner. (February 16, 2005).
  11. Mark Anthony Neal. "In Defense of Ward Churchill." Pop and Politics (March 1, 2005).
  12. Mark Anthony Neal. "Critical Noir: Taking One for the Team—Michele Wallace." AOL BLACK VOICES Time Warner. (March 2, 2005).
  13. Mark Anthony Neal. "Critical Noir: The Color Purple Controversy Revisited." AOL BLACK VOICES Time Warner. (March 9, 2005).
  14. Mark Anthony Neal. "Critical Noir: Daughters of the Sister Outsider." AOL BLACK VOICES Time Warner. (March 30, 2005).
  15. Mark Anthony Neal. "Critical Noir: Can Hip-Hop Be Feminist?." AOL BLACK VOICES Time Warner. (April 6, 2005).
  16. Mark Anthony Neal. "Michael Jackson’s Hidden Accuser: Racism." THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (June 10, 2005).
  17. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Rhythm and Bullshit: The Slow Decline of R&B (Rhythm and Blues)"." ALTERNET.ORG (July 8, 2005).
  18. Mark Anthony Neal. "Race-ing Katrina." POPMATTERS: A GLOBAL MAGAZINE OF CULTURE (September 9, 2005).
  19. Mark Anthony Neal. "Freedom Summer Remembered: A Conversation with Denise Nicholas." THE BACKLIST—A PUBLISHING AND LITERARY NEWSLETTER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST (October, 2005).
  20. Mark Anthony Neal. "Kanye Walks: Hip-Hop and Spirituality." POPMATTERS: A GLOBAL MAGAZINE OF CULTURE (February 2, 2006).
  21. Mark Anthony Neal. "(White) Male Privilege, Black Respectability, and Black Women's Bodies." THE BLACK COMMENTATOR (April 20, 2006).
  22. Mark Anthony Neal. "Black Macho Disturbed." SEEINGBLACK.COM (July 21, 2006).
  23. Mark Anthony Neal. "Rape Not in Black and White." SEEINGBLACK.COM (October 16, 2006).
  24. Mark Anthony Neal. "Good 'Game Theory'." SEEINGBLACK.COM (October 16, 2006).
  25. Mark Anthony Neal. "My Passport Says Shawn: Trafficking in Monikers." SEEINGBLACK.COM (November 26, 2006).
  26. Mark Anthony Neal. "It's Your Nigger Problem, Not Hip-Hop's." BLACK AGENDA REPORT (December 6, 2006).
  27. Mark Anthony Neal. "Hillary vs. Barack? A Black (Male) Feminist Considers." Vibe Magazine (on-line) (January 9, 2008).
  28. Mark Anthony Neal. "What Would Shirley Chisholm Say?." Vibe Magazine (on-line) (January 20, 2008).
  29. Mark Anthony Neal. "Obama Elitist? I'm Hearing Something Else." Vibe Magazine (on-line) (April 13, 2008).
  30. Mark Anthony Neal. "Vet Obama? How About (White) America Vet Itself." Vibe Magazine (on-line) (May 30, 2008).
  31. Mark Athony Neal. "Sister Soul." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (June 9, 2008).
  32. Mark Anthony Neal. "A Father's Day Message (Op-Ed)." The News & Observer (June 13, 2008).
  33. Mark Anthony Neal. "Great Expectations? Venus and Serena Set Their Own Bar." Vibe Magazine (on-line) (July 5, 2008).
  34. Mark Anthony Neal. "Lift Every Voice." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (July 14, 2008).
  35. Mark Anthony Neal. "An Ode to Hot Buttered Soul." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (August 11, 2008).
  36. Mark Anthony Neal. "Can Paying For Grades Help No Child Left Behind?." NewsOne.com (August 15, 2008).
  37. Mark Anthony Neal. "Feminism Deserves More Than a Roll Call Vote." NewsOne.com (August 25, 2008).
  38. Mark Anthony Neal. "Michelle Obama Lifts Veil on Black Womanhood." NewsOne.com (August 26, 2008).
  39. Mark Anthony Neal. "Conventions in the Rearview: Senior Healthcare Remains Untouched." NewsOne.com (September 7, 2008).
  40. Mark Anthony Neal. "Global Financial Crisis Threatens Black Middle Class." NewsOne.com (September 24, 2008).
  41. Mark Anthony Neal. "The Financial Meltdown and John McCain’s Willie Horton." NewsOne.com (October 16, 2008).
  42. Mark Anthony Neal. "Sexism, Misogyny And Sarah Palin." NewsOne.com (October 24, 2008).
  43. Mark Anthony Neal. "Black President Era May Challenge Black Brokers." NewsOne.com (November 7, 2008).
  44. Mark Anthony Neal. "Black Voters, White Progressives & Prop 8." NewsOne.com (November 12, 2008).
  45. Mark Anthony Neal. "Is Michelle Obama's "Ass" Off Limits?." Vibe Magazine (on-line) (November 18, 2008).
  46. Mark Anthony Neal. "Kanye’s Pity Party." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (December 16, 2008).
  47. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Katrina's Second Line"." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (February 23, 2009).
  48. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Black Radio Doesn’t Deserve Our Help"." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (May 27, 2009).
  49. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Black Men and Baseball"." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (June 21, 2009).
  50. Mark Anthony Neal. ""The Music in Spike’s Message"." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (June 22, 2009).
  51. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Obama Flunks His 'Teachable Moment'”." theGrio/NBC News (June 31, 2009).
  52. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Can You Remember?"." Hello World: The Complete Motown Solo Collection (Michael Jackson) (July, 2009).
  53. Mark Anthony Neal. ""The Crisis for Survival Shifts from Violence to Healthcare"." theGrio/NBC News (July 22, 2009).
  54. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Will Downing in 'Classique' Form"." The Root/Washington Post Interactive (July 24, 2009).
  55. Mark Anthony Neal. ""The Demise of Vibe Magazine and the Future of Criticism"." Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture (July 24, 2009).
  56. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Tyler Perry Reflects Black Culture, But Some Hate What They See"." theGrio/NBC News (September 11, 2009).
  57. Mark Anthony Neal. ""How Kanye Saved the VMAs"." theGrio/NBC News (September 14, 2009).
  58. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Black Men Need to Wake Up to the Facts on Our Women’s Health"." theGrio/NBC News (October 14, 2009).
  59. Mark Anthony Neal. ""The Post Modern Mammy? The Oprah Legacy"." The New Black Magazine (England) (November 30, 2009).
  60. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Charlie Wilson Talks Cancer"." SeeingBlack.com (December 2, 2009).
  61. Mark Anthony Neal. "The Urgent Nostalgia of Raheem DeVaughn’s ‘Bulletproof’." SeeingBlack.com (December 10, 2009).
  62. Mark Anthony Neal. ""Snap That Tiger: Reading Tiger Woods on the Cover of Vanity Fair"." Seeing Black (January, 2010).
  63. Mark Anthony Neal. "Coming Apart at the Seams: Black Masculinity and the Performance of Obama-Era Respectability." Seeing Black (May, 2010).
  64. Mark Anthony Neal. "Finding Teacake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood." The New Black Magazine (June, 2010).
  65. Mark Anthony Neal. "Grooves of Consciousness? The Myths of Political Music." The New Black Magazine (August, 2010).
  66. Mark Anthony Neal. "Before 'The Boondocks', there was Ollie Harrington." theLoop21.com (August, 2010).
  67. Mark Anthony Neal. "The curious obsession with the #BrownTwitterBird." theLoop21.com (August, 2010).
  68. Mark Anthony Neal. "“Where Dey At?”: Bounce and the ‘Sanctified Swing’ Post-Katrina." theLoop21.com (August, 2010).
  69. Mark Anthony Neal. "'Acting white my ass' Beyond the myths of Black student underperformance." theLoop21.com (August, 2010).
  70. Mark Anthony Neal. "Black men have something of value to offer in America’s classrooms." theLoop21.com (September, 2010).
  71. Mark Anthony Neal. "“Work Ain’t Honest”: Hip-Hop's black collar economy." theLoop21.com (September, 2010).
  72. Mark Anthony Neal. "# Where’s Young Jeezy’s anthem for the midterm elections?." theLoop21.com (October, 2010).
  73. Mark Anthony Neal. "Do Black kids still like baseball?." theLoop21.com (October, 2010).
  74. Mark Anthony Neal. "Quincy Jones: Black music’s institutional memory." theLoop21.com (November, 2010).
  75. Mark Anthony Neal. "Twenty-five years later, Edmund Perry's case still resonates." theLoop21.com (November, 2010).
  76. Mark Anthony Neal. "Has Tyler Perry found a voice within Black feminism?." theLoop21.com (November, 2010).
  77. Mark Anthony Neal. "Un-married mothers yes, but not always single parents." theLoop21.com (November, 2010).
  78. Mark Anthony Neal. "The national culture says the literacy of young boys isn't all that important." theLoop21.com (November, 2010).
  79. coedited with David Ikard (FSU). "Special Issue Dedicated to Black Male Feminism." Palimpsest 1.2 (Fall, 2012).