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Department
African American Studies
Selected Publications
Books
2021 Homicide: Life on the Street. TV Milestone Series. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press
2019 Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.
2012 When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight, and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
Journal Articles
2019 African American Filmic Artifacts From Body and Soul to Black Panther. The American Historian.
2016 “Far Beyond the Stars: The Framing of Blackness in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” The Journal of Popular Film and Television 44.3.
2014 “Sports History: What’s Next?” Journal of American History 101.1
Book Chapters
2016 “Andy Murray: From Outsider to Savior and Back Again” with Dan Travis in More than Cricket and Football Ed. Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen S. Smith. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
2015 “I’m the King of the World?: Barry Bonds and the ‘Race’ For The Record,” in Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Essays on Sports, Race, and the Media Ed. Chris Lamb. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press (reprint).
2013 “‘Raindrops on a Window’”: Race and Sex and the Framing of the Sheryl Swoopes Narrative” in A Locker Room of Her Own: Sport, Gender, and the Construction of Athletic Reputations. Ed. Joel Nathan Rosen and David C. Ogden. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Courses taught
- AFS 4240/ COM 4240 African Americans in Television, 4 credits, Fall 2020
- AFS 3200 / COM 3230: The African American Film Experience, 4 credits, Winter 2020
- AFS/SOC 2245: Blacks in Sport in the United States, 4 credits, winter 2017