Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West
- 2022, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Role: Author
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Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore
- 2022, Gray Wolf Press
- Role: Author
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography
- 2017, W.W. Norton & Company
- Role: Author
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My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
- 2012, Chicago Press
- Role: Author
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The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
- 2010, Princeton Press
- Role: Author
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Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, 1913-1952
- 2007, Wiley
- Role: Author
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Publications
“Letter from Saint James Episcopal,” Paris Review December 2021: 3-14.
“Another Land,” Harper’s Magazine April 2022: 16-18.
“The news that Johns Hopkins’ founder enslaved people isn’t shocking, but it is a call to action,” Baltimore Sun, December 10, 2020.
“If Joe Biden is serious about addressing systemic racism, we’ll see it in his task force appointments,” Baltimore Sun, November 13, 2020.