The Mind of Frederick Douglass (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
"The Making of Black America," in Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States, edited by Luther S. Luedtke (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 341-361.
"Nation Time!": Black Nationalism, The Third World, and the Jews," in Jack Salzman and Cornel West, Struggles In The Promised Land: Toward A History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States (NY: Oxford, 1997), 341-355.
Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History With Documents(NY: Bedford, 1998).
Co-Editor with Patricia A. Sullivan, Civil Rights in the United States: An Encyclopedia (NY: Macmillan, 2000).
No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America(Harvard Univ. Press, 2005).
"'Be Real Black for Me': Representation, Authenticity, and the Cultural Politics of Black Power" in James W. Cook, et.als., eds, The Cultural Turn in US History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
"Precious African American Memories, Post-Racial Dreams & the American Nation," Daedalus, Spring 2011.
Co-Editor (with Patricia A. Sullivan) of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture at the University of North Carolina Press.