Areas of Research
sovereignty, citizenship, risk
Publications
2013 “The Problem of Citizenship, the Question of Crime, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement.” Transition 111: 177-187.
2012 “‘Life…in the midst of death’: Notes on the historical relationship between life insurance, slave insurance and disability.” Disability Studies Quarterly 32(3). Access at: http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3267/3100
2011 “The Security of Justice.” Souls 13(1): 17-28.
2009 “Thief’s Theme.” South Atlantic Quarterly 108(8): 541-562.
2009 “‘It’s hard out here for a pimp…with…a whole lot of bitches jumpin’ ship’: Navigating black politics in the wake of Katrina.” Public Culture 21(2): 341-374.
2008 “Killing Time.” Social Text 26(4): 1-29.
2007 “‘Crimes of History’: Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of Slavery.” Souls 9(3): 193-222. [Reprinted in Manning Marable, ed. Transnational blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line. New York: Palgrave, 2008.]
2007 “Epilogue: It was all a dream.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 24(2): 238-263. [Reprinted in Benjamin Eastman, Michael Ralph, and Sean Brown, eds. America’s Game(s): A Critical Anthropology of Sport. London: Routledge, 2008.]
2007 “Prototype: In Search of the Perfect Senegalese Basketball Physique.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 24(2): 311-316. [Reprinted in Benjamin Eastman, Michael Ralph, and Sean Brown, eds. America’s Game(s): A Critical Anthropology of Sport. London: Routledge, 2008.]
2006 “‘Flirt[ing] with death’ but ‘still alive’: The sexual dimensions of surplus time in hip hop fantasy.” Cultural Dynamics 18(1): 61-88.