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"Afro-Analytical Marxism and the Problem of Race," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association (forthcoming).
“Army of the Wronged: Autobiography, Political Prisoners, and Black Radicalism,” in Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America’s Wars, ed. Alison LaCroix, Jonathan Masur, Martha Nussbaum, and Laura Weinrib (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 296-311.
“Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West,” in African American Political Thought: A Collected History, ed. Melvin Rogers and Jack Turner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021), pp. 413-438.
"Freedom in a Godless and Unhappy World: Wright as Outsider," in The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright, ed. Glenda R. Carpio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 121-138.
"Prisons of the Forgotten: Ghettos and Economic Injustice," in To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018), pp. 187-204.

“Impure Dissent: Hip Hop and the Political Ethics of Marginalized Black Urban Youth,” in From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age, ed. Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 59-79.
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“Liberalism, Self-Respect, and Troubling Cultural Patterns in Ghettos,” in The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, ed. Orlando Patterson and Ethan Fosse (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 498-532.
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“Inequality, Integration, and Imperatives of Justice: A Review Essay,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 42 (Summer 2014): 253-285.
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“Racism, Moralism, and Social Criticism,” Du Bois Review 11.1 (2014): 57-74.
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“Racial Realities and Corrective Justice: A Reply to Charles Mills,” Critical Philosophy of Race 1.2 (2013): 145-162.
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“Justice, Work, and the Ghetto Poor,” Law & Ethics of Human Rights 6 (2012): 70-96.
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“The Ethics of Uncle Tom’s Children,” Critical Inquiry 38 (Spring 2012): 513-532.
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“Race” in The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, ed. David Estlund (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 336-353.
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“Justice and Racial Conciliation: Two Visions,” Daedalus 140 (Winter 2011): 95-107.
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“Reflections on Boxill's Blacks and Social Justice,” Journal of Social Philosophy 41 (Fall 2010): 343-353.
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“Racism, Identity, and Latinos: Comment on Linda Martín Alcoff,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 47 (2009): 129-136. (Spindel Symposium on Race, Racism, and Liberalism).
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“White Supremacy and Black Solidarity: David Walker’s Appeal” in A New Literary History of America, ed. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 196-201.
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“Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 35 (Spring 2007): 126-160.
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“Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity,” (with Lionel K. McPherson) Philosophy & Public Affairs 32 (March 2004): 171-192.
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“Race and Social Justice: Rawlsian Considerations,” Fordham Law Review 72 (2004): 1697-1714. (Symposium on John Rawls and the Law)
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“Two Conceptions of Black Nationalism: Martin Delany on the Meaning of Black Political Solidarity,” Political Theory 31 (October 2003): 664-692.
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“Ideology, Racism, and Critical Social Theory,” Philosophical Forum 34 (Summer 2003): 153-188.
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“Parasites, Pimps, and Capitalists: A Naturalistic Conception of Exploitation,” Social Theory and Practice 28 (July 2002): 381-418.
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“Foundations of Black Solidarity: Collective Identity or Common Oppression?” Ethics 112 (January 2002): 231-266.
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“Is Racism in the ‘Heart’?” Journal of Social Philosophy 33 (Fall 2002): 411-420.
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