Selected Writings
Radio Essays with NPR
New Orleans' Cities of the Dead
Giving a Name to the Pain of Losing a Child
DNA and Genealogy: A Worrisome Mix
Selected Articles and Essays
“Shield the Children”(On Public Death and Spectacle)
“Whose Village? Hillary Clinton, Black Women and the DNC”
“Speakers for the Dead” (On Brain Death, Race and Cultures of Dying)
“Beloved: An American Grammar Book”
“Reports of Police Spying Raise Concerns of Overreach”
“A Grieveable Death. The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum”
'Vilomah' “A Name For a Parent Whose Child has Died”
“Literature, Science and States of Surveillance”
“Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine, and the Problem of Polyheme”
“Coda: Bodies of Evidence”
“Cultural Narratives Passed On: African American Mourning Stories”
“Cultural Politics in the Academic Community: Masking the Color Line”
“Holy Heat: Rituals of the Spirit in Zora Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God”