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American Renaissance (forthcoming Spring 2010)
“Abolition.” In Keywords in American Cultural
Studies. Ed. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New
York: New York University Press, 2007.
“Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics
in the United States.” American Literary History 19
(2007): 573-602.
“What is an American? The Problem of the West.”
The Humanities Review 6 (2007):
53-74.
“Frederick Douglass’s ‘Colored Newspaper’: Identity
Politics in Black and White.” In The Black Press:
New Historical and Literary Essays. Ed. Todd
Vogel. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
2001. 55-70.
Book Review, Clotel, or the Daughter of a President,
edited by Robert S. Levine, Resources for American Literary
Study 27 (2001): 294-297
“The Trouble with Douglass’s Body,” American Transcendental
Quarterly 13 (1999): 27-49.
“‘The Organ of an Individual’: William Lloyd Garrison and
The Liberator.” Prospects: An Annual of American
Cultural Studies 23 (1998): 107-27
“Everybody’s Faneuil Hall: The Imaginary Institution of
Democracy.” Arizona Quarterly 54 (1998): 1-23.
“Thoreau’s Urban Imagination,” American Literature 68
(1996): 321-46.
“Empire of Tears.” James Fenimore Cooper: His Country
and His Art 9 (1993): 37-51.