Spittin' Change

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Selected Publications

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Books

The Witchs Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (Perverse Modernities). Duke University Press, 2007.

Wrote Introduction to and Co-Edited (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) James A. Snead. Racist Traces and Other Writing: European Pedigrees/ African Contagions (Language, Discourse, Society). London and New York: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2003.

Book Chapters

“‘Joining the Lesbians’: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility,” in Eds. Mae G. Henderson and E. Patrick Johnson, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005, 213-227.

“‘We Got Next’: The WNBA Advertising Campaign’s Negotiations with Femininity,” in Eds. Meta Carstarphen and Susan Zavoina, Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications), Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1999, 199-207.

Journal Articles

“Queer Film and Media Pedagogy ,” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2006; 117-134. (Invited Discussant.)

“Passing for Human: Bamboozled’s Digital Humanism,” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory (Special Issue on Passing). Issue 29, 15:1: 2005; 237-251.

(Invited Article.)”‘Ghetto Heaven’: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme,” The Black Scholar. Special Issue on Black Film and Culture, Spring 2003, Vol. 22, No. 1, 33-46.

“‘In the Interval’: Frantz Fanon and the ‘Problems’ of Visual Representation,” Qui Parle, Spring/ Summer 2003, Vol. 13, No. 2; 91-117.

“‘A Homegrown Revolutionary’?: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party, The Black Scholar, Spring/ Summer 1999, Vol. 29, No. 2-3, 59-63.