writer & educator
Writing
Policing and Its Critics, forthcoming.
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The 'Lost Cause" of Cultural Studies: Ernesto Laclau After Stuart Hall
PMLA, forthcoming (co-author)
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On the Drag of the Ship(ped)
Social and Cultural Geography, forthcoming (co-author)
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On the Dilemmas of MAN: Intersections Reconsidered
Know (the) Ledge: Critical Essays on the Limitations of Hip Hop Studies, forthcoming (co-author)
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Contest or Die: The Dialectics of Immunology
Practices of Disciplinary Refusal, forthcoming
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Rodney King Riots
Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, 2024
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Ex Aqua in the Mediterranean: Excavating Black Power in the Migrant Question
Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Anti-Blackness, 2024 (co-author)
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Hip Hop Studies in Black
That's the Joint! The Hip Hop Studies Reader, 2023
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Syndicate, 2022.
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Public Health Policing and the Case Against Vaccine Mandates
St. Thomas Law Review, 2021.
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Slavery and the U.S. Prison System
Global Policy, 2021.
Syndicate, 2021.
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Hamilton and the Minstrel Show Remix
Black Agenda Report, 2020 (co-author).
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Still Missing and Murdered: Atlanta's Lost Children Address Today's Plague of Police Violence
Black Agenda Report, 2020.
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Confronting Pandemic Police Powers
Abolition Journal, 2020
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BAR Book Forum: Tryon Woods’ Blackhood Against the Police Power
Black Agenda Report, 2019.
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Marronage, Here and There: Liberia, Enslavement's Conversion, and the Settlers-Not
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2019.
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Journal of African American History, 2019.
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IMixWhatILike!, 2019.
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The Implicit Bias of Implicit Bias Theory
Drexel Law Review, 2018.
Can A Leopard Change Its Spots? Undermining the Black Studies Tradition
IMixWhatILike!, 2018.
Putting ‘Afro-Pessimism,’ Intersectionality, and Solidarity to Work
Black Agenda Report, 2018.
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‘Stand Your Ground’: Siwatu-Samala Ra and Black Self-Defense II
Black Agenda Report, 2018.
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‘Rest in Power’: Stephon Clark and Black Self-Defense I
Black Agenda Report, 2018.
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Requiem for Laquan: Policing as Punishment and Prosecuting ‘Reasonable Suspicion'
Temple Law Review, 2017 (co-author).
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The Sadism of Anti-Trafficking and the Erasure of Racial Slavery
Open Democracy, 2017 (co-author).
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A Luta Continua: Re-Introducing Amilcar Cabral to a New Generation, 2016.
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Racial Optimism and the Drag of Thymotics
Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation, 2016 (co-author).
'Something of the Fever and the Fret’: Antiblackness in the Critical Prison Studies Fold
Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation, 2016.
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Campaign Cover Stories and Fungible Blackness, Part Two
Abolition Journal, 2016.
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Campaign Cover Stories and Fungible Blackness, Part One
Abolition Journal, 2016.
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Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2015 (co-author).
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Against Hip Hop Studies
On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness, 2015 (co-author).
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A Re-Appraisal of Black Radicalism and Human Rights
On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness, 2015.
Where is the Danger in Black Studies and Can We Look At It Again (and Again)?
On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness, 2015 (co-author).
‘Sexual Poetic Justice’: Hip Hop, Antiblack Desire, and Legal Narratives.
Hip Hop and the Law: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, 2015.
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Slavery’s Afterlife in the Mediterranean Basin
Open Democracy, 2015 (co-author).
The Antiblackness of ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ Abolitionism
Open Democracy, 2014.
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Ex Aqua: The Mediterranean Basin, Africans on the Move, and the Politics of Policing
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 2014 (co-author).
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Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2014 (co-author).
'Beat It Like a Cop': The Erotic Cultural Politics of Punishment in the Era of Post-Racialism
Social Text, 2013.
Surrogate Selves: Notes on Anti-Trafficking and Antiblackness
Social Identities, 2013.
The Flesh of Amalgamation: Reconsidering the Position (and the Labors) of Blackness
American Quarterly, 2013.
Review of From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners Union
Law & Society Review, 2013.
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The Gender Entrapment of Neoliberal Development
Genders, 2012.
Hip Hop and the ‘Post-Racial’ Legal Un-Conscious
Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty, Southern University Law Center, 2010.
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The Plantation Society, circa 2008: Discussing Immigration Through the Lens of Criminology
Radical Teacher, 2009.
The Jena 6 and Black Punishment: Raw Life in the Domain of Non-Existence
Seattle Journal of Social Justice, Seattle University Law School, 2008 (co-author).
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The Fact of Anti-Blackness: Decolonization in Chiapas and the Niger River Delta
Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, 2007.
Globalizing Social Violence: Race, Gender, and the Spatial Politics of Crisis
American Studies, 2002.
The Violence of Global Spaces: Race, Gender, and Simultaneity
Passages: Interdisciplinary Journal of Global Studies, 2001.
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