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“Racial Capitalism” (with Maya Singhal). Theory and Society 48 (2019): 851-881. Special issue on Slavery and Social Death featuring Orlando Patterson.
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“Forensics.” ‘Secular and Capital’ special issue. Journal of American Academy of Religion 87, no. 3 (2019): 649–654.
"Saint Tupac" (with Aisha Beliso-De Jesús and Stephan Palmié). Transforming Anthropology 25, no. 2 (2017): 90–102.
“Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise.” In American Capitalism: New Histories, edited by Sven Beckert and Chris Desan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).
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“The Price of Life: From Slavery to Corporate Life Insurance.” Dissent 64, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 62-66.
with Bill Rankin. “The Slave Insurance Market.” January 2017.
with Bill Rankin. “Slave Insurance.” June 2016.
“Forensics of Liability.” In African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility, edited by Charlie Piot and Brian Goldstone (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 72-94.
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“To Be a Butterfly on the Wall of this Mansion: In Place of a Response.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25, no. 2 (2015): 208-210.
“Theoretical Ramifications of Django Unchained.” American Anthropologist 117, no. 1 (2015): 154-161.
with Lauren Coyle. “Resource Curse? A Review of Elmina.” Transition 107 (2012): 150-159.
“‘Life...in the midst of death’: Notes on the historical relationship between life insurance, slave insurance and disability.” Disability Studies Quarterly 32, no. 3 (2012).
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“Barack Obama is (not) who you think he is.” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture.’ 2, no. 2 (2009): 76-77.
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“Hip Hop.” Social Text 100 27(3): 141-146.
“Thief’s Theme.” South Atlantic Quarterly 108, no. 3 (2009): 541-562.
“‘It’s hard out here for a pimp…with…a whole lot of bitches jumpin’ ship’: Navigating black politics in the wake of Katrina.” Public Culture 21, no. 2 (2009): 341-374.
“Killing Time.” Social Text 26, no. 4 (2008): 1-29.
“‘Crimes of History’: Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of Slavery.” Souls 9, no. 3 (2007): 193-222.
“Epilogue: It was all a dream.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 24, no. 2 (2007): 238-263.
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“‘Flirt[ing] with death’ but ‘still alive’: The sexual dimensions of surplus time in hip hop fantasy.” Cultural Dynamics 18, no. 1 (2006): 61-88.
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“Oppressive Impressions, Architectural Expressions: The poetics of French colonial (ad)vantage, regarding Africa.” In African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, edited by Toyin Falola and Steve Salm. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005, pp. 22-47.
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