Shorter Writings

Edited Works

After #Ferguson, After #Baltimore: The Challenge of Black Death and Black Life for Black Political Thought

Co-Guest Editor with Barnor Hesse, South Atlantic Quarterly 116, no. 3 (2017)

Journal Articles

Dying for Democracy? Race and Mourning in Pandemic Times

Critical Exchange on Mourning Work: Death and Democracy During a Pandemic, Contemporary Political Theory 20, no. 1 (2021): 165-199

How Can the Democratic Party Confront Racist Backlash? White Grievance in Hemispheric Perspective

Symposium on The Challenges Facing Democrats, Polity 52, no. 3 (2020): 355-369

Black Protest/White Grievance: On the Problem of White Political Imaginations not Shaped by Loss

South Atlantic Quarterly 116, no. 3 (2017): 483-504

Introduction: On Black Political Thought inside Global Black Protest

With Barnor Hesse, South Atlantic Quarterly 116, no. 3 (2017): 443-456

Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair

Political Theory 44, no. 4 (2016): 448-469

‘A Black Sister to Massachusetts’: Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass

American Political Science Review 109, no. 4 (2015): 690-702

Hybrid Subjectivities, Latin American Mestizaje, and Latino Political Thought on Race

Politics, Groups, and Identities 2, 2 (2014): 188-201

Afro-descendant Struggles for Collective Rights in Latin America

Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 10, no. 3 (2008): 279-291

‘Beloved Enemies’: Race and Official Mestizo Nationalism in Nicaragua

Latin American Research Review 40, no. 3 (October 2005): 14-39

Indigenous Inclusion/Black Exclusion: Race, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Citizenship in Latin America

Journal of Latin American Studies 37, no. 2 (May 2005): 285-310

Book Chapters

Introduction

Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020), p. 1-20

Disobedience in Black: On Race and Dissent

Protest and Dissent: NOMOS LXII, ed. by Melissa Schwartzberg (New York: NYU Press, 2020), p. 45-63

Hemispheric Comparison in Latin American Anti-Imperial Thought

Leigh Jenco, Megan Thomas, and Murad Idris (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), p. 415-438

Currents in Afro-Latin American Political and Social Thought

Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews (eds.),Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2018), p. 179-221, with Frank Guridy

Anti-Imperial, but not De-Colonial? Vasconcelos on Race and Latin American Identity

Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio Parrado (eds.),Latin America Since the Left Turn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), p. 385-307

Negotiating Blackness within the Multicultural State: Creole Politics and Identity in Nicaragua

Kwame Dixon and John Burdick (eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Afro Latin America (University Press of Florida, 2012), p. 264-281

Indigenous Rights in Latin America: How to Classify Afro-descendants?

Will Kymlicka and Avigail Eisenberg (eds.), Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In (University of British Columbia Press, 2011), p. 104-136

Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua

Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe (eds.), Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place (Duke Univ. Press, 2010), p. 246-277

De la Autonomía Multiétnica a…? Sobrevivencia cultural, relaciones inter-étnicas, auto-gobierno y el modelo de autonomía en la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua

en Miguel González, Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor y Pablo Ortiz-T (eds.), La autonomía a debate: Autogobierno indígena y Estado plurinacional en América Latina (Quito, Ecuador: Editorial FLACSO, GTZ, IWIA, CIESAS, UNICH, 2010), p. 177-198

Other Publications

Frederick Douglass on Multiracial Democracy: On A Universal Right to Migration and the Ideal of ‘Composite Nationality

Public Seminar, January 30, 2023

Civil Society in Revolt against the Leftist Authoritarianism of the Ortega/Murillo Regime

Dossier on Citizen Protests and Government Repression in Nicaragua, LASA Forum XLVIV, no. 4 (2018): 23-24

What Black Lives Matter can learn from Black Activists in Latin America

NACLA Report on the Americas 49, no. 1 (2017): 34-35

Black and Indigenous Lives Matter: LASA/Ford Special Grants for Research on Racism in Latin America

Dossier on Anti-Racist Struggles in Latin America, LASA Forum XLVIIII, no. 2 (2017): 26-27

The Double Bind: The Politics of Racial and Class Inequalities in the Americas Executive Summary

PS: Political Science & Politics 50, no. 1 (2017): 250-259

Diasporic Politics

Afro-Latinos in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas, ed. by Jennifer Jones, Tianna Paschel and Petra Rivera-Rideau (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), p. 215-220

Multiculturalism and Liberalism

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015

Afro-descendants and Indigenous Rights

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013

Book Reviews

Creolizing Theory in Conversation with Theorizing Race in the Americas

Review of Jane Gordon, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon, in Philosophy and Global Affairs 1, no. 2 (2021): 277-281

Race, Democratic Theory, and the Allure of Comparison

“Democracy’s History of Inegalitarianism: Symposium on Michael Hanchard, The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy,” in Political Theory 48, no. 3 (2020): 357-377

Review of A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass, ed. by Neil Roberts

Review of A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass, ed. by Neil Roberts

Review of Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America, ed. by Jerome C. Branche

The Americas 75, no. 2 (2018): 414-415

Review of Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants by Anna Sampaio

Politics and Gender 13, no. 1 (2017): 177–180

Theorizing Slave Agency: Neil Roberts’s Freedom as Marronage

Theory and Event 20, no. 1 (2017): 188-192

Review of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle that Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder

Perspectives on Politics 12, no. 3 (2014): 716-717

Review of Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. DuBois by Lawrie Balfour

Perspectives on Politics 10, no. 4 (2012): 1046-1047

Review of Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity, ed. by Jorge J. E. Gracia

Perspectives on Politics 8, no. 4 (2010): 1209-1210

Review of The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America by James Mahoney

Governance 17, no. 2 (2004): 304-306

Review of A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala by Diane Nelson

Post Identity 3, no. 1 (2001): 106-108

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