“The Literate Pimp: Robert Beck, Iceberg Slim, and Pimping the Book chapter African American Novel” New Essays on the African American Novel from Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead Eds – Lovalerie King and Linda Selzer New York: Palgrave, 2008

“Sinners Have Soul Too: Spirituality in the Pimp-Authored Text” Article

Xavier Review

Guest editors, Keith Mitchell and Robin Vander

Winter 2007

Encyclopedia Entries

“Canada Lee” “Native Son” (film 1950) Native Son” (film 1986) “Jim Hill Primary School” Contributor, The Richard Wright Encyclopedia Ed - Jerry W. Ward Greenwood Press, 2008

“Edward Smyth Jones” “Samuel Beadle” Contributor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature

“Samuel Beadle” Contributor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature Ed - Emmanuel S. Nelson Greenwood Press, 2005

“Purlie Victorius”

Purple Victorius “Donald Goines” “Roger Bonair-Agard” Contributor, A Gift of Story and Song: An Encyclopedia on Twentieth Century African American Writers Ed - Wilfred D. Samuels et. al. Facts on File, 2004

“Madame Sul Te Wan” “Black and Tan Clubs” “Apollo Theater” Contributor, Harlem Renaissance Encyclopedia

“Miscegenation” Contributor, Companion to Southern Literature Ed - Joseph Flora et al. LSU Press: 2002

Work in Progress“The Hand I Fan With: Hand Fans as Sites of Cultural and Racial Memory” Article

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