Books
Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life with Marcus Anthony Hunter, University of California Press, winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2019); Prose Book Award (Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology Category) Finalist (2019); PROSE Award for Excellence; and the CHOICE Book Award (2018)
This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, University of North Carolina Press, winner of the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, Division of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Re-Positioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age, edited with Sandra L. Barnes and Earl Wright II, SUNY Press
Essays and Commentary
Tyre Nichols Had a Beautiful Life, MLK50.com
How Memphis Rap Charted a Path from Delta Blues, NPR.org
Long Live the Queen of Memphis, Oxford American
Angela Bassett, Queen of the Universe, Glamour
Dear Sweet June Baby, Taste Good, Oxford American
The Watts Miracle, Oxford American, republished as On the Many Miracles of Aretha Franklin at Lit Hub
Megan Thee Manifester, Glamour
Jyoti’s Music to Mourn By, New York Times Magazine
Beyoncé’s Search for Home Continues on Black Is King, The Atlantic
Body Capital: How Twerking Shapes the Sound of Southern Rap, NPR
Brittany Howard Gets Her Revenge in a Song, New York Times Magazine
Sing Across the Ocean, Oxford American
Memphissippi, anthologized in New Daughters of Africa
We Eat, Therefore, We Yam: Parsing the Southern Cogito, Gravy
Proctor, Arkansas, 12:43 PM, New York Times
Real Museums of Memphis, Scalawag
B-Side of Blackness, Believer
Border Wars, Oxford American
I Am Not Your Negress, Hyperallergic
Listening for the Country, Oxford American
How Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Exposes the Inner Lives of Black Women, Rolling Stone
Beyoncé’s Black Southern Formation, Rolling Stone
Nightmare on Main Street, Gawker
Interviews: Podcasts, Radio, TV, Documentary
The Blues Society, Directed by Augusta Palmer
Little Richard: I Am Everything, Directed by Lisa Cortés
Mitchelville, Arkansas, Parts 1 & 2, Points South Podcast, Oxford American
How Memphis Made Its Mark in the Hip-Hop World, Here and Now, WBUR Boston
Beyoncé et Solange, reine de la pop et princesse soul, ArteTV
Name. Age. Detail. Geraldine Chapman Talley, This American Life
Memphis, TrueSouth, Season 2, Episode 4, SEC Network/Bluefoot TV
Her Father’s Music: A Redemption in Blues, WKNO Memphis
Fitting Memphis Into the Southern Narrative, Weekend Edition, NPR
With “Formation” Beyoncé Lights Up the Internet, NPR Music
