LECTURES

On the Study of African American Literature:The Obligations of Literary History

Tradition and Acknowledgement in Combat Zones

African American Literature's Response to Modernity

Richard Wright Centennial Lectures

Richard Wright and 21st Century Questions

The Critical Importance of Eugene Redmond's Drumvoices

Trickster Criticism:Kenneth Warren's What Was African American Literature?

Recent African American Studies

The Critical Journey of Houston A.Baker,Jr

Representation and Natasha Trethewey'Poetry

Southern Version of Truth:Minrose Gwin's The Queen of Palmyra and Katheryn stockett's The Help

"Django Unchained":Ambiguous Ethical Response and the Principle of Double Effect

APPENDIX:Blogs and Other Writings

Remarks on April 4,1997

Introduction for Witherspoon

A Letter to Nathan McCall

Playing in the Sunlight:Colors of Imagination,or Toni Morrison Revisited October 22,1996/August 10,2011

The Ethnic Ethical Turn

On the Letters of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison

Richard Wright's Spinning of Tales

Wideman's Fanon

A Poetic Journey

Toi Derricotte's Open Confession

The"Death"of African American Literature

The Excellent Absurdity of Legitimate Rape:A Note on Art and History

Ishmael Reed and the American War of Words

The White Minstrelsy of American Politics

America's Soul Unchained

Houston A.Baker,Jr.'s Critical Memory

Poem 65

On Being Like My Tree

Winter Solitude

Gordon Parks:Photography and Intervention

Free Southern Theater

Mirror of Violence:Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign

Ramcat Reads

The Gifts of Black Prisoners

Cultural Literacy and The New York Times

Remembering Alvin Aubert and Amiri Baraka