Selected articles • "The Myth of Class Reductionism".
The New Republic (September 25, 2019) • "Antiracism: a neoliberal alternative to a left".
Dialectical Anthropology 42.2 (June 2018) • "The Kerner Commission and the Irony of Antiracist Politics".
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 14.4 (December 2017) • "The Post-1965 Trajectory of Race, Class, and Urban Politics in the United States Reconsidered".
Labor Studies Journal 41.3 (2016) • "The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age".
New Labor Forum 25.2 (2016) • "No Easy Solutions".
Jacobin (2016) • "Doubling Down in Atlantic City".
Jacobin (2016) • "Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics".
Jacobin (2016) • "From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much".
Common Dreams (Monday, June 15, 2015) • "The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation."
Jacobin. (2015) • "The Strange Career of the Voting Rights Act: Selma in Fact and Fiction".
New Labor Forum 24.2 (2015) • "The Crisis of Labour and the Left in the United States'". (w/Mark Dudzic).
Socialist Register. 51 (2014). • "Michelle Goldberg Goes to Washington".
Jacobin (2014) • "Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals".
Harpers (March 2014) • "Adolph Reed, Jr. Responds".
New Labor Forum 23.1 (2013) • "Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism".
New Labor Forum 22.1 (2013) • "Race, Class, Crisis: The Discourse of Racial Disparity and its Analytical Discontents". (w/
Merlin Chowkwanyun)
Socialist Register 48 (2012) • "Why Labor's Soldiering for the Democrats is a Losing Battle".
New Labor Forum 19.3, (Fall 2010) • "The 2004 Election in Perspective: The Myth of 'Cultural Divide' and the Triumph of Neoliberal Ideology".
American Quarterly 57.1 (2005) • "Reinventing the Working Class: A Study in Elite Image Manipulation".
New Labor Forum 13.3 (Fall 2004) • "Race and the Disruption of the New Deal Coalition".
Urban Affairs Quarterly 27.2 (1991) • "W.E.B. Dubois: A Perspective on the Bases of his Political Thought".
Political Theory 13.3 (1985) • "Pan-Africanism: Ideology for Liberation?".
The Black Scholar 3 (September 1971)
Books and chapters •
Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time (w/Kenneth W. Warren). Routledge (2025), ISBN 9781003569947 •
No Politics but Class Politics (w/Walter Benn Michaels)
. Eris (2023), •
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives. Verso Books (2022), • "Foreword" in
Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. (author) Heather Gautney. Verso Books (2018), •
Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought (editor w/ Kenneth W. Warren). Routledge (2010), • "The study of black politics and the practice of black politics: their historical relation and evolution" in
Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics edited by Ian Shapiro, Rogers M. Smith, and
Tarek E. Masoud. Cambridge University Press (2009), • "Class Inequality, Liberal Bad Faith, and Neoliberalism: The True Disaster of Katrina" in
Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction Edited by Nandini Gunewardena and Mark Schuller. AltaMira Press (2008), • "Introduction," "Class-ifying the Hurricane" in
Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina. Editor Betsy Reed. Nation Books. (2006), • "Why Is There No Black Political Movement?" in
Cultural Resistance Reader by Stephen Duncombe. Verso (2002), •
Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality. Routledge (2001), •
Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene. The New Press (2000), •
Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era. University of Minnesota Press (1999), •
W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line (1997), • "Demobilization in the New Black Political Regime: Ideological Capitulation and Radical Failure in the Postsegregation Era" in
The Bubbling Cauldron: Race, Ethnicity, and the Urban Crisis edited by Michael Smith and Joe Feagin. University of Minnesota Press (1995), • "The Allure of Malcolm X and the Changing Character of Black Politics" in
Malcolm X: In Our Own Image edited by Joe Wood. St. Martin's Press (1992), Reprinted in
Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era. •
The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics (1986), • "Pan-Africanism as Black Liberalism: Du Bois and Garvey" in
Pan-Africanism: New Directions in Strategy edited by Ofuatey-Kodjoe. University Press of America (1986) •
Race, Politics, and Culture: Critical Essays on the Radicalism of the 1960s (editor) (1986), • "Black Particularity Reconsidered".
Telos 39 (Spring 1979). New York: Telos Press. Reprinted in
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism Editor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. University of Chicago Press. (2002), ==References==