CUNY Academic Commons

BA — University of Michigan, 1990 

PhD — Stony Brook University, 1998

Book 

Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes. University of Missouri Press, 2007. http://upress.missouri.edu/9780826216779/socialist-joy-in-the-writing-of-langston-hughes/

Edited Volume

U.S. Fascism Comes to the Surface. Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 22, No. 2 (July 2008). http://tandfonline.com/toc/csad20/22/2?nav=tocList

Articles and Essays

“Transaction Theory Rebooted: What Neuroscience’s Research on Reading Means for Composition.” College Composition and Communication, Vol. 3, No. 3 (February 2022), pp. 526-561. https://library.ncte.org/journals/CCC/issues/v73-3

“The Americanisation of C.L.R. James.” Race & Class, Vol. 60, No. 2 (October-December 2018), pp. 3-20. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306396818795753

“Secularism from Below: On the Bolivarian Revolution.” Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age. Eds. Michael Rectenwald and Rochelle Almeida. Boston: De Gruyter, 2015: 223-233. https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9781614516750/9781614516750-015/9781614516750-015.xml

“Angel of Palestine.” Race & Class, Vol. 52, No. 3 (January-March 2011), pp. 92-101. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396810389255?journalCode=racb

“The Miracle of Emile Habibi’s Pessoptimist.” College Literature, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 110-128. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20642077?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

“Chris Searle: Funk Brother No. 1.” Race & Class, Vol. 51, No. 2 (October-December 2009), pp. 33-43. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396809345575

“Dean Baker’s War of Position.” Race & Class, Vol. 51, No. 1 (July-September 2009), pp. 23-45. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306396809106163

“Thinking Big.” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 23, No. 2 (July 2009), pp. 41-49. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300902904840

“Theory in the Age of Hamas.” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 24-57. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300802635890?journalCode=csad20

“Why Fascism When They Have White Supremacy?” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 22, No. 2 (July 2008), pp. 73-107. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300802083414?journalCode=csad20

“Failures and Frauds of the American Cultural Left.” Race & Class, Vol. 49, No. 1 (July- September 2007), pp. 105-118. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306396807080072

“The Demonization of Pan-American Nationalism.” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (July 2007), pp. 123-133. http://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300701388187?journalCode=csad20

“Introductory Notes on Theodore Allen’s ‘Base and Superstructure.'” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2007), pp. 75-84. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300601116738

“The Origin of Violence in Virginia.” Black Agenda Report, April 2007. http://www.nathanielturner.com/originofviolenceinvirginia.htm

“Heroic Minds: The Founders of American Anti-Imperialism.” Black Agenda Report, January 2007. https://www.blackagendareport.com/node?page=277&option=com_content&task=view&id=918&Itemid=1

“Advanced, Repressed, and Popular: Langston Hughes During the Cold War.” College Literature, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring 2006), pp. 30-51. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115345?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

“Javelins at the Head of the Monolith: Rachel Corrie, the Israel Lobby, and ‘Made in      Palestine.'” CounterPunch, April 9, 2006. https://www.counterpunch.org/2006/04/07/rachel-corrie-the-israel-lobby-and-quot-made-in-palestine-quot/

“Home to Exile: Langston Hughes, Antillano.” The Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall 2006), pp. 3-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26434621?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

“Langston Hughes, Patternmaster,” Race & Class, Vol. 48, No. 2 (October-December 2006), pp. 23-37. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396806069521

“The Niggerization of Palestine.” Black Agenda Report, November 2006. https://palsolidarity.org/2006/12/niggerization-palestine

“Science Fiction’s Black Oracle: The Genius and Courage of Octavia Butler.” CounterPunch, March 12, 2006. https://www.counterpunch.org/2006/03/11/the-genius-and-courage-of-octavia-butler

“Notes on Political Education.” The Black Commentator, March 2006. http://www.nathanielturner.com/notesonpoliticaleducation.htm

“Octavia Butler and the Base for American Socialism.” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 20, No. 3 (November 2006), pp. 105-128. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300600950269

“The Staying Power of Rap: On Hip-hop and Musicology.” ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary and Artistic African-American Themes, November 2005. http://www.nathanielturner.com/stayingpowerofrap.htm

“World Literatures and Class Struggle.” The Inquirer, Vol. 12 (Fall 2005), pp. 2-5. https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/faculty-affairs/upload/vol12.pdf

“Expulsion is Transfer: The Colonial Logic of Bush’s Response to New Orleans.” The Black Commentator, September 2005. http://www.blackcommentator.com/150/150_scott_explusion_new_orleans.html

“Teaching Writing from Ground Zero.” The Journal of Teaching Writing, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 33-61. http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/teachingwriting/article/view/1331/1280

“Remembering to Not Forget: A Reflection on Jubilee.” ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary and Artistic African-American Themes, July 2005. http://www.nathanielturner.com/rememberingtonotforget.htm

“A New Aesthetics of Black Equality: On Tony Medina.” Race & Class, Vol. 46, No. 4 (April-June 2005), pp. 20-38. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306396805052516

“If White America Had a Bill Cosby.” The Black Commentator, June 2005. http://www.nathanielturner.com/ifwhiteamericahadbillcosby.htm

“Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down: The Permanence of U.S. Mediocrity.” The Black    Commentator, May 2005. http://www.blackcommentator.com/139/139_mediocrity.html

“PBS Says American Slavery was Natural: Eradicating Bacon’s Rebellion from Popular   Memory.” The Black Commentator, March 2005. http://www.blackcommentator.com/129/129_guest_pbs_slavery.html

“Dynamic Multiculturalism: A Race-Free Concept of America.” Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 17. No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 110-127. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0893569052000312944?src=recsys&journalCode=rrmx20

“Terms and Concepts.” The Inquirer, Vol. 11 (Spring 2004), pp. 48-51. https://slideblast.com/inquirer-inside-2004-1_59744c361723dd37bda5d637.html

“The Generalist versus the Professionalist.” Politics and Culture, January 2004. https://politicsandculture.org/2010/08/10/the-generalist-versus-the-professionalist-jonathan-scott-2/

“Blues Writing.” Rethinking Schools, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 26-31. https://www.rethinkingschools.org/articles/reader-response

“Sublimating Hiphop: Rap Music in White America.” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 18, No. 2 (July 2004), pp. 135-155. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300408428404

“Peculiar Relations: White Identity and Imaginative Literature.” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2004), pp. 211-234. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300408428387

“Interview with Theodore Allen.” Cultural Logic, Spring 1998. https://clogic.eserver.org/scott-meyerson-interview-theodore-w-allen

“Before the White Race Was Invented.” Against the Current, Vol. 12, No. 6 (January-February 1998), pp. 46-50. https://solidarity-us.org/atc/72/p1973/

“Inside the White Race Corral.” Minnesota Review, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Fall 1996), pp. 93-104. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438720/pdf

“Critical Aesthetics on the Down Low.” Minnesota Review, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Winter 1995), pp. 164-171. http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/resolve_openurl.cgi?issn=0026-5667&volume=43-44&spage=164

“Official Culture Meets Jes Grew.” Lies of Our Times, May 1992. https://archive.org/details/LiesOfOurTimesCollection/page/n0

“Satanic Verses in Detroit.” Middle East Report, Vol. 21 (January-February 1991). https://www.jstor.org/stable/3012618?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

“The Times on People’s Park.” Lies of Our Times, September 1990. https://archive.org/details/LiesOfOurTimesCollection/page/n0

“Double Standards.” Lies of Our Times, August 1990. https://archive.org/details/LiesOfOurTimesCollection/page/n0

Reviews

Review of Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads. Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 22, No. 3 (November 2008), pp. 184-191. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300802361729

Review of Melba Joyce Boyd, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. Race & Class, Vol. 47, No. 3 (January-March 2006), pp. 101-105. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/030639680604700309

Review of S.E. Anderson and Tony Medina (eds), In Defense of Mumia. Race & Class, Vol. 38, No. 1 (July-September 1996), pp. 100-105. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/030639689603800108

Review of Michael Eric Dyson, Reflecting Black. Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 923-925. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/20953