• The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Paperback Edition, 2008.

• “Jay-Z on his IPod: Barack Obama as a Hip-Hop Generation Pop Icon,” Online: www.seeingblack.com

• “Motherland Hip-Hop: African American Youth Culture in Senegal & Kenya,” in Rhythms of the Atlantic World, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming.

• “Dancing the Black Atlantic: Katherine Dunham’s Research-to-Performance Model,” “Migration of Movement: Dance Across Americas,” a special issue of AmeriQuest (www.ameriquests.org) 7.1 (Fall 2009)

• “The Dance Archeology of Rennie Harris: Hip-Hop or Postmodern?” in Julie Malnig, ed., Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, University of Illinois Press, 2008.

• Book Review of Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé by Yvonne Daniel, Dance Research Journal Summer 2008 (40.1), 89-92.

• “Gazing the Hood: Hip-Hop as Tourism Attraction,” with Philip Feifan Xie and Awad Ibrahim, Tourism Management 28.2 (2007) 452-460.

• “Katherine Dunham: A Dance Pioneer of Postmodern Anthropology” in VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson, Kaiso, Writings by and about Katherine Dunham, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, 612-623.

• “Global Hip Hop and the African Diaspora.” in H. Elam, Jr. & K. Jackson, eds., Black Cultural Traffic. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2005, 266-288.